Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] necessary for the " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 Accordingly , we should only interfere with his decision if we are satisfied that he applied an incorrect test , or was deprived of material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion or was plainly wrong .
4 The judge 's failure to apply the correct test in this respect was compounded by the fact that he was deprived of the material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion because of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the foster mother 's application for leave under rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 .
5 In my judgment therefore the exercise of his discretion was vitiated on the additional ground that by failing to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , he was deprived of material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion .
6 Parliament avoided taking the decision on the acceptance of Théodore , which was necessary for the replacement of the current interim Prime Minister , Jean Jacques Honorat .
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 Both diplomatically and militarily , it was necessary for the Government to respond speedily .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 For this it was necessary for the premiership to pass not to Heseltine but to a leading member of the Cabinet .
13 It was necessary for the early skins to obtain a separate musical identity .
14 Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that
15 In order to evaluate whether the enhanced home support of the action scheme was successful in sustaining at home some people who would otherwise have been likely to enter institutional care , it was necessary for the action to take place in a prescribed geographical area , so that an equivalent , matched area could become a control area .
16 Due to the complexity of the internal alterations it was necessary for the work to be programmed and undertaken in several phases , within the overall contract period of 18 months .
17 In most districts the same person held the posts of justice of the peace and police magistrate , but it was necessary for the complainant to determine in which capacity he wanted this official to act .
18 Judge Lauterpacht however felt that extension of the Organisation 's powers could only be justified where it was necessary for the performance of its functions and , in this instance , was caused by South Africa 's non-performance of its obligations .
19 Although he still expressed private doubts about Lawrence , it was necessary for the public gesture to be made : Lawrence was , after all , part of that same generation of writers of which Eliot was now almost the sole representative .
20 In order to obtain data on the difficulty of the questions at different levels it was necessary for the sample of pupils taking them to be drawn from the complete range of target pupils in the schools .
21 ( 2 ) It was necessary for the judge to deal with the point about the breach of the Code to the jury because TJ 's counsel 's speech had referred to it , although strictly the issue whether there had been a breach of the Code was a matter for the judge and not the jury .
22 By a notice of appeal dated 25 November 1991 , and pursuant to the grant of leave to appeal out of time , the plaintiff appealed on the grounds that the judge erred in law in holding that ( 1 ) the defendant was at 24 December 1989 a residential occupier within the meaning of section 27 of the Housing Act 1988 and a statutory tenant within section 2 of the Rent Act 1977 ; and ( 2 ) once a possession order had been obtained against a statutory tenant it was necessary for the landlord to obtain a warrant of possession .
23 A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms .
24 Now that Moscow 's hopes for fruitful negotiation with the United States had been shattered , it was necessary for the Soviet Union to adopt a more aggressive stance if it were to maintain credibility as a rival to Washington .
25 Indeed , it was necessary for the Government to carry the management of those companies with them so that any radical measures to expose the industries to serious restructuring or competition were not on the agenda .
26 A new poll commissioned by the Birth Control Trust showed that 82pc of people in the province thought abortion should be legal where it was necessary for the physical or mental health of the woman .
27 ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " .
28 It was necessary for the Council of the Law Society to make a number of regulations in connection with this process .
29 It is a defence to show that it was necessary for the defendant to enter the plaintiff 's land .
30 But it was necessary for the company to keep going .
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