Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 2 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 3 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 4 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 5 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 6 | Alexandra had n't heard the Colonel sound this cheerful since he 'd been confined to the wheelchair . |
| 7 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 8 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 9 | The £798 raised was donated to the hospital 's radio station Crystal Radio . |
| 10 | Rollo loved being taken to the gilt and plush ambience of Rules in Covent Garden , to which his riposte was Lock-Obers in Boston , which he protested was not so good . |
| 11 | One of the three supermarkets looted was razed to the ground . |
| 12 | You know sure there were committees to manage either financial affairs , or various other bits and pieces that went on , but even then decisions they took were taken to the lodge to be voted on . |
| 13 | Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them . |
| 14 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 15 | He was at Pickering castle from 8 to 22 August 1323 : an inquiry was held regarding venison trespasses in Pickering Forest since that forest had been forfeited to the Crown by the treason of the Earl of Lancaster' . |
| 16 | The parachute team from 11 Bn had been tasked to the Sandwich area that morning . |
| 17 | The Constitutional Committee , meeting in plenary session on Oct. 16 chaired by Yeltsin , called on the Supreme Soviet to delay convening the Congress until the first draft of the new Constitution had been presented to the standing parliament . |
| 18 | The original proposals for the interim state structures had been presented to the Congress on Sept. 2 by President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan . |
| 19 | The Great Education Reform Bill that had been presented to the House of Commons seven months earlier with the soubriquet of ‘ GERBIL ’ had , like gerbils , grown . |
| 20 | His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In his death the sand-flea had been raised to the status of a full Marine … |
| 23 | Meanwhile , on Gladstone 's resignation in 1894 , he had been raised to the peerage as Baron Rendel , of Hatchlands in Byfleet , county Surrey . |
| 24 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 25 | Henry worked at the Foreign Office in London , where ambiguity had been raised to an art form . |
| 26 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 27 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 28 | Pahadia , a Congress ( I ) general secretary who had been appointed to the governorship in February 1989 , was succeeded on Jan. 31 , 1990 , by Yunus Saleem . |
| 29 | The latter , who had been appointed to the post in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] , had resigned in mid-January following a central government call for the resignation of all state governors [ see above ] . |
| 30 | Bhatnagar , who had been appointed to the post in February 1989 , was replaced on Jan. 31 , 1990 , by Adml. ( retd ) Radhakrishnan Hariram Tahiliani . |