Example sentences of "had to be kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | her strong suit was the family chronicle and , if this was to be extended over three or more generations , enough leading personages had to be kept in the land of the living . |
| 2 | Her temper had worsened since the pups were born , so now she had to be kept tied up all the time in the alcove near the kitchen stove . |
| 3 | News of the surrender of Paulus and 90,000 soldiers of the 6th Army — which would have provided some relief for their distraught relatives — had to be kept quiet to maintain the legend of total and selfless sacrifice for the nation in the ‘ greatest epic in German history ’ . ’ |
| 4 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 5 | After six weeks Moz began to mellow , and the headstall no longer had to be kept on him . |
| 6 | So , a wife carefully distinguished her property from her husband 's , for the marriage could end , requiring a division of goods ; or her husband could marry a second wife , or a third , and wives ' property had to be kept distinct . |
| 7 | If it was some horrible misunderstanding , he could n't talk to the girl to try to clear it up ; instead , he had to be kept in prison to prevent any possibility of contact . |
| 8 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 9 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 10 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 11 | Although weak , the baby was basically healthy , but she had to be kept in intensive care for the first few weeks . |
| 12 | Back in the 'twenties , Sunday at our home was a day apart and , as far as was possible , the Sabbath had to be kept as ordered in the Fourth Commandment . |
| 13 | They had to be kept out of the water until they had lost their baby down and grown waterproof adult oily feathers . |
| 14 | For example , some functions required fast and frequent access to both active and dormant files ; others managed efficiently with slower access times , but had a need for more extensive cross-referencing ; some items had a limited life only , whereas information relating to policy and major structural changes had to be kept indefinitely . |
| 15 | Milk vans had to be kept scrupulously clean , and were 50ft long , 8ft wide , and 7ft 10in high in the centre , carried on two standard four-wheeled bogies . |
| 16 | Had to be kept thousands of miles out in the ocean . ’ |
| 17 | The affair had to be kept secret , or the scandal within the hospital would irrevocably damage his career . |
| 18 | At a period when Residents had no clerks and were lucky if they possessed a typewriter , Lugard was listing some thirty different sets of records which either had to be kept or sent in , dealing with every conceivable aspect of a fully developed civil administration from postal matters to canoe registration . |
| 19 | The ARR did not require the reporting accountant to report on controlled trust accounts , although Part II of the SAR contained rules determining how a solicitor should deal with the movement of controlled trust money , ie the circumstances in which money could be paid in or withdrawn from a controlled trust account , and the records that had to be kept . |
| 20 | But as America and Germany were still at peace , and the leasing of the pilots was a clear breach of the US Neutrality Act which Hitler , had he come to know of it , might have used as an excuse for sinking American ships , the news had to be kept strictly secret . |
| 21 | It was what was going on in my mind that had to be kept secret , on pain of interference , on pain of ridicule , on pain of punishment and , inevitably , on pain of self-understanding . |
| 22 | I remember cold days , when both back and front doors had to be kept wide open to cause a through-draught , or clear a smoke-filled room . |
| 23 | ‘ It had to be kept simple so it could be translated into different languages ( the show will tour Europe in the autumn ) , but it is dangerously close to the P-word , ’ giggles Gibson . |
| 24 | It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most … |
| 25 | The difference in their market situation was also important in explaining their opposition to unionism , since US manufacturing employers concentrated upon standardised products sold on price — which had to be kept down ( Phelps Brown , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | The way to greater profitability , then , lay in the direction of bringing in better sorts of people and , to ensure that , a careful eye had to be kept on what was actually shown in the cinemas . |
| 27 | Domestically , it was necessary to prevent ‘ sinister interests ’ from dominating the political process — the world that had been made safe for democracy had to be kept safe by democracy . |
| 28 | The Israelite people had to be kept free of contamination from outside sources , especially the corrupting influence of Canaanite religion . |
| 29 | And er the all day that stove had to be kept , in summer and winter , because there was no other means of heating the irons . |
| 30 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |