Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
2 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |
3 | Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you . |
4 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
5 | And then later he had been bound apprentice to Ninereeds the Masteraccount , who in his grey-mindedness was everything that dragons were not , and there was no time for dreaming . |
6 | A spokeswoman said the man had been making door to door calls , asking for donations . |
7 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
8 | For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] . |
9 | By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly . |
10 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
11 | ‘ One of the things I missed was having access to things like phones and being able to make contacts . ’ |