Example sentences of "[was/were] necessary [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least a dozen visits were necessary to the Public Record Office , the British Library , the National Monuments Record and the Institute of Historical Research in London . |
| 2 | As one of the most respected figures in women 's tennis , and a member of the Player committee , I asked if she felt changes were necessary to the women 's game at the moment . |
| 3 | The railways were necessary to the rise of the North-Western holiday industry , but they did little actively to promote it , and the real cause of its growth , and of the pattern of its development , lay in rising living standards and changing attitudes to the use of leisure time among the potential visiting public . |
| 4 | The author showed shrewd perception of the powers which could be exercised by commercial blockade or by boycott , and he specifically indicates wool and tin as English products which were necessary to the Flemings , who could be brought under pressure by a withdrawal of supplies . |
| 5 | Initial studies indicated that two heating temperatures were necessary for the qualitative and quantitative characterisation of gas generation . |
| 6 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 7 | The General Assembly was not restricted in its actions to those performed by the League , provided it was satisfied they were necessary for the effective carrying out of its task of supervision . |
| 8 | For instance , from the very inception of the Copernican programme it was clear that adequate mathematical techniques for manipulating epicyclic motions , improved techniques for astronomical observations and adequate theories governing the use of a variety of instruments were necessary for the elaboration and detailed application of the programme . |
| 9 | Basic shelter and kitchen facilities were necessary for the many thousands using rural areas each weekend , and the role of the Cyclists ' Touring Club ( CTC ) was significant in pioneering the provision of cheap overnight accommodation and other services for its members . |
| 10 | Saussure called for , not the abandonment of diachronic study , but the recognition that synchronic and diachronic study led to different kinds of knowledge , and that both were necessary for the true understanding of language . |
| 11 | It was agreed that only two members of the committee were necessary for the bingo sessions . |
| 12 | The global commodity system was largely based on persuading the peoples of the non-industrial countries to produce the food and industrial raw materials that were necessary for the continuous growth of capitalism and industrialization in the First World . |
| 13 | It argues that the injunctions were necessary in the public interest to prevent the concept of the security service 's confidentiality being destroyed pending full argument at trial . |
| 14 | Equally , however , if they are essentially operating as traditional institutions and if it does succeed as a multi-purpose agency , it begs the question whether UDCs were necessary in the first place . |
| 15 | It was accepted that these restrictions were necessary in the interests of the community , salus populi est suprema lex , and that private owners should be compelled to comply with them even at cost to themselves . |
| 16 | During the process of interviewing the known sector , it was found that , because of the enigmatic lifestyle of heroin users , an average of three or four home visits were necessary before the interview with any given individual successfully took place . |
| 17 | He had told the legate in 1095 that he knew very well what needed to be done , but that he had no power to do what was necessary without the king 's aid and consent . |
| 18 | That was just how the circuit bosses liked things , believing that the best way to hold on to their audience was through ‘ family entertainment ’ , and arguing through the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association ( CEA ) that filmmakers should avoid treating themes and incidents that ‘ were offensive to the reasonable taste and standards of those whose patronage was necessary to the health and future of the industry . ’ |
| 19 | It was necessary to the experiment that we select a sexually mature but inexperienced woman . |
| 20 | The fragile social equilibrium between the toleration and segregation of marginal social behaviour which was necessary to the survival of the very poor in the working-class community was almost certainly upset by the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Acts . |
| 21 | That argument is that the dividend was necessary to the successful establishment , from nothing , of the co-operative store . |
| 22 | As lord of the manor , his consent was necessary to the procuring of any act of parliament for the enclosure of the town fields : and that consent was never forthcoming . |
| 23 | Both diplomatically and militarily , it was necessary for the Government to respond speedily . |
| 24 | The confidence which was necessary for the successful functioning of a coinage tended to encourage a conservative approach to its design , and one of the largest and most abundant coinages of the ancient world , that of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC , deliberately preserved an archaic appearance , as a comparison with more up-to-date treatments of the same subject reveals ( fig. 9 ) . |
| 25 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 26 | October 1944 , it was necessary for the Polish patriots to capitulate to the German forces as the Russian troops failed to make their expected advance and reach Warsaw . |
| 27 | In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses . |
| 28 | For this it was necessary for the premiership to pass not to Heseltine but to a leading member of the Cabinet . |
| 29 | In Chapter 7 , we saw how several nutritional factors were detected — Will 's principle , found in yeast extracts and active against a tropical anaemia ; a similar material to that which prevented anaemia in monkeys ; the substance derived from spinach which was necessary for the growth of various microbes ; and substances from yeast and from liver also needed by microbes . |
| 30 | It was necessary for the early skins to obtain a separate musical identity . |