Example sentences of "had to be [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . )
2 There was such disruption at the entrance to Olympia that the start of the meeting had to be delayed for half an hour .
3 Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots .
4 which I suppose it might be difficult to see what had to be arranged for that with you there 's a regularity , but you know the Trone is obviously a
5 Dates had to be obtained for many of the sites before the historical sequence would become clearer .
6 If a separate PCR had to be done for each possible pathogen on each samples the work involved and the cost would be major drawbacks .
7 That is , every word in the million-word corpus was assigned a tag indicating its grammatical category , and complex computer programs had to be written for this purpose .
8 It was a pity that such a disagreeable man had to be thanked for this .
9 Spaces had to be left for some animals to be added as and when I found them .
10 The system was unwieldy , since grant applications had to be submitted for some three hundred individual services , and there were problems in the calculations of costs and hence of the appropriate subsidy ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ; Parker 1978 : 7 ) .
11 He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself .
12 An approved rod or other instrument had to be used for this purpose , and the punishment was not to be applied more than two hours after the offence .
13 Once at sea level , smooth soapstone slabs had to be traversed for some distance to reach the cliff .
14 Before the dredged dock and diesel hydraulic lift was installed a crane had to be hired for each lift out of , and each life back into , the water , at considerable expense .
15 Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks .
16 Indemnity policies protect the lender , not the borrower , so if you failed to keep up mortgage payments and the house had to be sold for less than your outstanding debt , the insurance company would pay the lender the difference , but might sue you for that amount !
17 In fact , the country visit had to be postponed for some time , because , although he had promised himself some months ' freedom from engagements , he found himself , as usual , saddled with responsibilities .
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