Example sentences of "[vb past] it necessary " 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 It was not until November 1959 that Moscow deemed it necessary even to send a TASS correspondent to Havana .
3 His paper was certainly outspoken : and , as his Church Times obituary remarked , ‘ our friend was no respecter of persons , however high in official standing , if he deemed it necessary , in support of God 's truth or the Church 's laws , to condemn their conduct . ’
4 He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary .
5 With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament .
6 Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town .
7 That is no doubt perfectly all right , but it makes you wonder why King Charles ever found it necessary to burst into the Commons with his soldiers , in search of the five rebel members .
8 CAN YOU tell me why you found it necessary to print such an offensive cartoon ( Lagerland , page 40 ) ?
9 In 1874 her nephew , the painter Josiah Gilbert , found it necessary to defend her reputation .
10 From an early stage in fieldwork I found it necessary to make a special index to notes which recorded what Zuwaya said about the past , for it was clear that these references and descriptions were recurrent themes .
11 He found it necessary to try to offset any lingering Scottish doubts by suggesting his daughter Elizabeth as a bride for Arran 's son , and , more to the point , offering 5000 men to aid Arran in defeating any opposition .
12 The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading .
13 The philosophes found it necessary to use coded language in their assault on Christianity and the Church .
14 True , the older children found it necessary to close their eyes during the ‘ soppy bits ’ — to blot out the vision of Peter Pan ( Robin Williams ) and Tinkerbell ( Julia Roberts ) kissing , for instance — but that was a small price to pay , they thought , for a decent story of revenge , piracy and adult idiocy .
15 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 .
16 Today , the main mill building is still in a good state of repair , although the present owners found it necessary to demolish the engine house .
17 She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century .
18 So her former connection with Rustenburg , and the presence there of his brother , may have been among the considerations that prompted Herbert Cranko to choose that town when he found it necessary to settle down after a roving life .
19 Manufacturing industry has been especially hard hit , but even sunrise companies specialising in new technology have at times found it necessary to prune their work-force .
20 At this village near Welwyn Garden City the engineers of the Great Northern Railway found it necessary to build a viaduct to carry the line across the ‘ impassable barrier ’ of the little River Mimram , a trickling stream with a valley of soft clay .
21 I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed !
22 Sadly for us , George found it necessary to reach the top via a Football League club and he moved to Oldham in September 1910 , for a fee variously quoted as between £450 and £800 , in order to gain his England recognition .
23 Staff in both departments found it necessary to maintain informal or social contacts to obtain information required for their tasks , and had some misgivings about the lateral flow of mutually relevant information .
24 The aid was developed using a commercial expert system shell , but we found it necessary to integrate the shell with a spreadsheet for data input , with an algorithmic language for certain numeric calculations and with a graphics package for presentation of the output .
25 The immediate result of George 's absence was the loss of his advice regarding the wine list , about which Olive knew little , and after three months Marie found it necessary to engage a specialist wine waiter .
26 And it was surprising how frequently they found it necessary to motor down to Edmonton or Calgary .
27 I often found it necessary to reprimand students for learning their TOEFL words during classes .
28 Unfortunately , however , I found it necessary to resign from the board of Junior Tennis Centres .
29 When , generations after his death , theology rediscovered him , it also found it necessary to move beyond him .
30 Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked .
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