Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALES 'S World Cup qualifying tie against The Netherlands tomorrow , deprived of three main attractions by the suspension of Ian Rush and Mark Hughes and injury to Ruud Gullit , recovered some of its box-office potential yesterday with the news that Marco van Basten had been added to the Dutch squad . |
| 2 | The rubies rumoured to have belonged once to Marie-Antoinette had been dispatched to the diva , who always wore scarlet . |
| 3 | The United States had been introduced to the combined system by Laurent Clerc , a deaf and dumb immigrant and former pupil of the Abbe de l'Epee . |
| 4 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 5 | It was reported to the Group that their request to the Council of the Law Society to commission a firm of management consultants to make an examination of the property market in Scotland had been remitted to a Special Committee of the Society comprising representatives of its Purchase and Sale of Heritage and Professional Practice Committees . |
| 6 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 7 | Gervase of Canterbury tells us that Edward objected especially to Henry 's renunciation of his rights to Normandy and to the infeudation of Gascony : although Edward had agreed to its terms by 25 July 1259 , he was to change his mind in 1260 and allege that Normandy had been sold to the French . |
| 8 | Bond took over at Turf Moor shortly after Burnley had been relegated to the old Third Division . |
| 9 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 10 | Henry of Grosmont , whose earldom of Lancaster had been raised to a duchy in 1351 , died of the plague on 23 March 1361 , leaving two daughters as his coheiresses . |
| 11 | Latvia had been admitted to the International Monetary Fund in May [ see p. 38937 ] . |
| 12 | " That seems satisfactory , then — he can go straight to you after he comes out of hospital , " — Willis had been admitted to the Waterloo , where it was exceedingly difficult to get a bed , once more with the help of the nurses on Bluebird . |
| 13 | Colt had been taken to the hotel where the target was staying … |
| 14 | Marshall had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 after a successful career as a civil rights lawyer , legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and an Appeals Court judge . |
| 15 | On May 28 the SNM announced that Ahmed Ali had been elected to the presidency of the new republic , and that a civil service , judiciary , central bank governor and relief co-ordinator would be appointed . |
| 16 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 17 | Aunt Harriet Craven had been married to a politician , a Cabinet Minister , so that always their Surrey house was full of weekend guests , men strolling in twos and threes about the lawn before luncheon , tall and important , and their lady wives , as Eleanor must learn to call them , in drooping hats . |
| 18 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 19 | Dexter assumed this happened just after Nicola had been called to the phone . |
| 20 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 21 | Strait-jacketed to restrain his flailing and deadly limbs , Bissell had been returned to the Institute for examination and analysis . |
| 22 | The master reported to the Board that a young woman named Annie H. had been sent to the workhouse immediately after her confinement by her mistress , Miss M. , of Woburn Road , and the clerk to the Board was directed to call the attention of the lady to the serious risk incurred by her in so doing . |
| 23 | Under cartel agreements , the identity and properties both of Sontochin and of Resochin had been disclosed to the Winthrop Chemical Company . |
| 24 | Frances Foote-Wood , Liberal Democrat northern regional organiser , said mail in Stockton had been sent to the wrong areas and in Bishop Auckland constituency some people still had not received leaflets yesterday . |
| 25 | And then Cardiff had shot Duvall again , the window had blown out taking Duvall with it … and the nightmare of Darkfall had been admitted to the office . |
| 26 | P C Patrick Dunn had been called to a minor disturbance at a house in Clapham . |
| 27 | An ambitious Dane , Leif Haraldsen had been attracted to the Algarve by its business potential and the opportunity for water sports , and was now the owner of a thriving kitchen-installation company . |
| 28 | I went for news again and this time was told that both my father and Dr Sambataro had been taken to the San Francesco Prison , a civilian prison in Parma . |
| 29 | Araminta had been driven to the celebrations in the gig by Adam Diggory , scorning Benedict 's escort , and Mrs Diggory had been permitted to accompany them so that she might visit her mother , who lived on the Switham estates . |
| 30 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |