Example sentences of "had to [be] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | Careful thought had to be given to assembly and I found that the easiest way was to join all the inner to the outer legs first , making eight rectangular frames . |
| 2 | But weight had to be given to the fact that this was a working wife with a recognised expertise in the managing of hotels . |
| 3 | People had to be given the chance to exercise choice over schooling , hospital treatment , and housing . |
| 4 | So sensitive was the occasion , approval had to be given by none other than the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury before Mr Hibbert could be exposed to the harsh winds of public controversy . |
| 5 | For this , it had to be given lungs , in the shape of open spaces , squares , parks and gardens . |
| 6 | In colonial Ruanda-Burundi , several weeks of free labour had to be given each year by the commune to build up terraces , bunds and other erosion works . |
| 7 | New jeeps had to be modified for desert travel , a vast amount of stores had to be sorted out and the new recruits had to be given at least some elementary training . |
| 8 | In this , NPAs had to be given 1 month 's notice of a proposal by the applicant and the applicant had to show that the NPA 's agreement was obtained ( either to the scheme as originally planned or an agreed modified version ) when applying for agricultural grant to MAFF or WOAD . |
| 9 | Experience quickly showed that advice had to be given with care , as the travellers ' way of life is unique . |
| 10 | The church premises at Oxford Street had to be given up in 1922 , and All Saints Church , Paddington , was purchased . |
| 11 | The aids had to be given positively and as Katharine became more adept , Benji performed the changes more smoothly . |
| 12 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
| 13 | Marginal land had to be given up either to waste or to sheep and cattle , since it was no longer profitable to plough it . |
| 14 | The woman police constable , who has been in the force for five years , had to be given emergency blood transfusions at the scene after being wounded in the stomach and arms . |
| 15 | Advance notice of car movements had to be given , but no charge was made by either party and at last S.M.E.T. cars could be thoroughly overhauled at Hendon . |
| 16 | Really serious attention now had to be given to the reconstruction or replacement of the Company 's rolling stock and although the ex-Croydon cars were in better condition than their own , it was decided to rebuild the J type cars on the Sutton route and not to commission any more ex-Croydon cars for service . |
| 17 | Where most instructions had to be given verbally , you needed a lot of people to do it . |
| 18 | B argued , however , that the definition had to be given a narrower definition either as regards the Regulations as a whole or those relevant to the instant case : the Regulations contemplated an actual employment relationship between employer and employee , and the definition in Reg 2 could not be applied literally . |
| 19 | Paul Manville had to be given his due — he could not have chosen a more apt record to convey his message . |
| 20 | Mrs Rene Morris said she had been shown letters addressed to parents which said the form had to be given to head teachers before a decision could be made . |
| 21 | SULTRY singer Sade had to be given the kiss of life when a spectacular underwater scene for her new video went dramatically wrong . |
| 22 | Several swimmers had to be given gulps of oxygen at the pool-side . |
| 23 | As the fashionable trade came in so more thought had to be given to subject-matter and to technique and in America this meant that short films had to be replaced or shown in conjunction with multiple-reel films as already pioneered by European film-makers . |
| 24 | Of course the ‘ genre ’ was somewhat doctored now : the forces of law and order had to be given a more positive and heroic role and there had to be far less suggestion of anarchy . |
| 25 | Priority had to be given to the statutory duties of constructing and publishing procedures for the assessment of pupils with special needs and the monitoring of their progress . |
| 26 | Others , such as the South Western , North Western and Midlands Boards , were less keen to raise tariffs to meet rising costs , and had to be given financial aid occasionally by the Central Authority from its reserves . |
| 27 | Nestorius himself refused to attend and had to be given protection by imperial troops . |
| 28 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 29 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 30 | At first instance Judge Butler ruled that the word ‘ obtained ’ in s.1(3) of the CSA 1985 had to be given a strict construction . |