Example sentences of "[vb past] it necessary [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists .
2 From a theoretical standpoint , Minden and Casperson { 30 } have been able to model the xenon-laser data very well , but found it necessary to include such effects as velocity-changing collisions , and population transfer from upper to lower laser level by spontaneous emission , as well as standing-wave effects .
3 The philosophes found it necessary to use coded language in their assault on Christianity and the Church .
4 With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament .
5 So intense was this that the Chinese hierarchy , anxious to preserve the established order , found it necessary to restrain competitive display of grave goods by sumptuary regulation .
6 Pope 's epistle is probably the most important statement of the dominant view of women in the eighteenth century , and women writing explicitly about issues of gender often found it necessary to confront this poem .
7 It would be an error , certainly , to underestimate the skill of the provincial craftsman when he found it necessary to improvise foreign shades and highlights in local stone .
8 Due to unforeseen problems , they became so heavily involved in the project that both found it necessary to develop new skills which led to them becoming competent programmers in their own right .
9 The differentiation went one stage further because Galileo found it necessary to distinguish two senses in which a biblical text could be construed .
10 He was content , however , in the knowledge that this man had only ever been known to serve the Rada Loa , those good spirits who were often associated with Catholic saints when the people felt it necessary to show some respect for the official state religion without compromising their traditional beliefs .
11 If a man of such convictions felt it necessary to follow this course , how much more would have his religiously devoted colleagues .
12 Last year I thought it necessary to criticise several doctors for such behaviour .
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