Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd in the stands had been roused to fever pitch by the drama of the finish and the almost unbelievable manner in which Dawn Run had come through to win , and now complete mayhem broke out . |
| 2 | Na Příkopě , which is a wide street lined with shops had been closed to traffic . |
| 3 | Her husband and son say that cleaners had been left to hand out meals to patients . |
| 4 | The room 's huge chandeliers had been lowered to floor level where servants laboriously slotted hundreds of white candles into the newly cleaned silver and crystal holders . |
| 5 | About seven more years had been added to expectation of life up to 1901 , after which the pace accelerated sharply . |
| 6 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 7 | Two army officers had been sentenced to prison terms for an attack on unarmed demonstrators in Santiago Atitlán in December 1990 , when 16 were killed and 24 wounded [ see p. 37912 ] , and another army officer was awaiting trial for the murder in September 1990 of anthropologist Myrna Mack [ see p. 37707 ] . |
| 8 | Sacher stated that all StB agents and officers had been ordered to hand in all weapons and identity cards , and to remain at home on standby . |
| 9 | He knew of the coup attempt of seven weeks earlier and he had heard the rumour that nine Air Force officers had been put to death . |
| 10 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 11 | Reliance was placed on Director of Public Prosecutions v. Ellis [ 1973 ] 1 W.L.R. 722 , where it was held that the fact that two accused persons had been prosecuted to conviction did not mean that the purposes of Part I of the Act , namely securing compliance with and detecting evasion of the Act , were spent ; and that accordingly it was still open to the authorities to employ their powers to obtain information relative to the same transaction from another person . |
| 12 | The most notorious was in 1984 when it was reported that two detained patients had been beaten to death by staff of Hotokukai Utsunomiya Hospital . |
| 13 | In Champagne 's chilly climate the fermentation process would stop when winter took its grip , probably before all the grape sugars had been converted to alcohol , but certainly before any malo-lactic fermentation could naturally occur . |
| 14 | Well over a hundred friends had been invited to luncheon at Woburn Abbey , but they were sworn to secrecy , and asked to arrive by a special route , so that no one went past the house . |
| 15 | Much of the training done by the family members had been linked to machinery as the sons carried out this work on the farm . |
| 16 | Claiming that assurances of safe conduct for UN inspectors had been ignored , the team 's leader Nikita Smidovich alleged in Manama , Bahrain , on Oct. 30 that members had been subjected to harassment and death threats . |
| 17 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 18 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 19 | By a curious paradox of war , the Schlieffen Plan had been completely reversed : the Germans had been reduced to stalemate in the west while in the east they had inflicted an almost knock-out blow . |
| 20 | I was tempted when examining these drawings to propose a hypothesis that some of these artists had been attracted to formalism and minimalism because of its supposed neutrality ; the absent author was , after all , without gender . |
| 21 | Presumably he did n't rate the Stalinvast operation as requiring really major surgery — even though thirty hive cities had been devastated to date and several totally destroyed . |
| 22 | Mr Anderton said he was disappointed that he could not afford to keep Vaila , adding that various attempts had been made to interest public and environmental agencies to buy it for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 23 | Checheno-Ingushetia was abolished , and a large part of the Ingushi lands had been ceded to North Ossetia and repopulated by Ossetes . |
| 24 | Murderers had been brought to justice in only a small number of the cases referred to . |
| 25 | According to the Washington Post of Jan. 16 , 1990 , more than 800 people including university students had been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years for " counter-revolutionary crimes " , including such acts as putting up posters . |
| 26 | The new study , carried out by the Cancer Research Campaign 's Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University , found no difference in cancer rates between children whose fathers had been exposed to radiation and those whose fathers had not . |
| 27 | A declassified message from the United States embassy in Rangoon dated Aug. 22 , 1989 , alleged that political prisoners had been tortured with burning cigarettes and electric shocks and that in some cases detainees had been tortured to death . |
| 28 | During Debré 's premiership , these councils had been limited to defence issues , Algeria , and African affairs . |
| 29 | A similar group of NUFLVN guerrillas had been sentenced to prison terms in late 1987 [ see p. 35902 ] . |
| 30 | Two policemen had been admitted to hospital along with Wullie Robertson with a broken nose . |