Example sentences of "made it necessary " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was basically the novel that made it necessary for me to look into the Bible .
2 The Treatises supported such arguments , and it was his having , and being suspected by the government of having , such seditious views that made it necessary for Locke to flee to Holland in 1683 .
3 This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary .
4 The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world .
5 Rumours that the Football Association had ordered a replay made it necessary for secretary Sir Frederick Wall to issue a statement confirming the result .
6 But by 1870 even larger ships and cargoes made it necessary to create a new port , or outport , at Avonmouth .
7 This in turn made it necessary to repeat the entry for all related activities , causing a great deal of duplication of records .
8 It was also found to give excessive flange wear , and made it necessary to turn the wheels after 20,000 miles in service .
9 Naturally , all this activity made it necessary for Mrs Carson to renew her whole wardrobe .
10 It was they who maintained the parish coffin , the pall , the cloaks , the candles , the hearse and — in those instances when poverty made it necessary — the mass fee .
11 In Britain the party system made it necessary for there to be an independent corporation , since broadcasting had to remain outside political conflict .
12 Frequent washing weakened the fibres , so items taken in strict rotation made it necessary to keep a well-stocked cupboard .
13 The increasing impact of nuclear weapons upon military planning and the perceived importance of maintaining the integrity of a future theatre of operations made it necessary to standardise doctrine and training and , hence , provide a more integrated forum for addressing joint military requirements .
14 The publishing explosion following the development of printing made it necessary for catalogues to give rather more detail : for instance , the edition and date of a book might now be more crucial to the reader , because there were so many variants .
15 Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers .
16 At the office during the week he found circumstances made it necessary for him to ring most of his influential friends and acquaintances — Sims , the paper 's tame lawyer ; Sir William Paice ; Brent-Williamson , the Literary Editor ; Huysmanns at the French Embassy .
17 The firm took a leading part in the introduction in 1855–6 of the new steel-making process devised by ( Sir ) Henry Bessemer [ q.v. ] , and the continuing expansion of their business made it necessary to build a separate boiler-making works in Ardwick , employing 500 men and producing six boilers a week .
18 He was educated at Mill Hill School under Dr Thorowgood and was not intended for any profession until family losses made it necessary .
19 Continuing demand in Edinburgh for water from the Union Canal made it necessary for the new aqueduct , which would eventually carry the canal over the bypass at Hermiston , to be constructed without interruption to the flow in the canal and the contractor elected to use an open channel diversion capable of passing 237 litres per second .
20 The climate of deregulation made it necessary to remove restrictions on the ability of building societies to compete in financial markets .
21 I thank the Secretary of State for his statement , and I bitterly regret the circumstances that made it necessary .
22 Although he acknowledged that there had " been no sign of flexibility " during his talks with Hammadi , Rafsanjani asked rhetorically why he should not meet Saddam Hussein " if there is hope for the salvation of the Iraqi nation " , and added that it would be " logical " to talk to the US administration if the pursuit of peace made it necessary .
23 UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali justified his endorsement of the new memorandum in a letter to the UN Security Council on Oct. 21 , saying that while " the agreement does not fully meet our aspirations " , the urgent need for humanitarian assistance made it necessary " to implement it without any further delay " .
24 But the death or retirement of a Conservative Prime Minister made it necessary for a choice to be made by the Queen in accordance with the convention that the office should be filled by an incumbent most likely to command the support of a Commons majority .
25 This presented the Communists as a part of the federal Labour movement , and made it necessary for sections of the Labour Party to give serious consideration to Communist aims and activities .
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