Example sentences of "had to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he came out , Kahn was advancing the thesis that thermo-nuclear war had to be made into a practical proposition , because a totally disarmed world which renounced war was unbelievable . |
| 32 | My choice had to be made with the greatest care and the most alert diagnostic skill . |
| 33 | The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ . |
| 34 | Three flights had to be made to fly missiles into Tehran . |
| 35 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 36 | It had to be made a crusade , and so it was . |
| 37 | Further gestures of conciliation , however , had to be made in 1224 . |
| 38 | ‘ The pressure had to be made . |
| 39 | The problem was the lack of resources ; a choice had to be made . |
| 40 | In dry weather , however , resort had to be made to the water carriers , who abound everywhere . |
| 41 | These modem developments contrast with the situation earlier in this century when for example there was no bridge between Benbecula and North and South Uist , and crossings had to be made across the beach at low tide . |
| 42 | Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th . |
| 43 | Each one had to be made to feel that they were noticed , for as Eugénie said , it is not so much that Princes are surrounded by flatterers as that they themselves must be ever ready to flatter others : |
| 44 | Unfortunately , in 1959 it was found to be unsafe and alterations had to be made . |
| 45 | it had to be made clear that the Civil Rights Movement was not anti-constitutional . |
| 46 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 47 | It was a curious mixture of determined work , for many undergraduates had lost five years or more , and of equally certain enjoyment , for the lost years had to be made up in other ways too . |
| 48 | The growing complexity of the tasks undertaken by the schools produced a new emphasis on careers guidance and upon counselling , for both of which staffing provision now had to be made . |
| 49 | Somehow enough material had to be made to establish the worth of penicillin in man . |
| 50 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 51 | A number of safeguards were said to be in force , the first being that all applications had to be made in writing . |
| 52 | Secondly , applications had to be made direct to the appropriate Secretary of State who , if not available , had to sign at the earliest possible opportunity ( though they could be issued initially by a civil servant ) . |
| 53 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 54 | A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably . |
| 55 | It was the moment when a choice had to be made about how to approach the exploitation and inequitable treatment meted out to Black subjects in Britain . |
| 56 | Opposite : The restrictions on the blue-cars of Lytham St. Annes in Blackpool meant that considerable efforts had to be made to advertise the line . |
| 57 | The line was opened in 1896 , but the engine jumped the rails on its maiden run , and modifications had to be made before the service could be resumed . |
| 58 | Some attempt had to be made to build new links with the existing problem-based material even before the full implications for clients were known . |
| 59 | For men , returning home after years away from their wives and children , a new beginning had to be made . |
| 60 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |