Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury . |
| 2 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 3 | Israel had been subjected to similar harsh international criticism when it had last deported a group of Palestinian activists , in May 1991 [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 4 | The government announced that on Sept. 8 Venezuela had been admitted to full membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 5 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 6 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |