Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 2 | She 'd been introduced to the others initially as a friend . |
| 3 | It was covered in lettering and had been riveted to the trousers , as if Grandson Richard was some sort of machine . |
| 4 | The ancient payments of Peter 's Pence , which had been granted to the popes by early monarchs , were received from England , the Scandinavian kingdoms and Poland . |
| 5 | At the back there was a long low out-building , described , somewhat euphemistically , as the Dairy or Daye House , for which planning permission to convert into living quarters had been granted to the vendors , but never actually acted upon . |
| 6 | The health boards in Scotland are very close to the hospitals , which is why I set considerable store by the approval that had been granted to the applications by the Grampian health board in the case of Foresterhill and by the Ayrshire and Arran health board in the case of South Ayrshire . |
| 7 | However , W was unaware that the description had been applied to the goods at all . |
| 8 | ‘ … it shall be defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know , and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . ’ |
| 9 | In any proceedings for an offence under this Act of supplying or offering to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . |
| 10 | Pressure had been applied to the children 's chests ; they 'd died either from suffocation or a stoppage of blood to their hearts . |
| 11 | The initial result was that the Conservatives had sought to counter the collectivist strategy of progressivism with a collectivism of their own , while individualist arguments had been relegated to the margins of Conservative politics . |
| 12 | Pearce v Foster indicated why it was that if the original affidavit or a copy made by the employee had been sent to the solicitors , that would not have been privileged from disclosure by the first and second defendants , although sent to the solicitors for the purpose of advising them on their position against the employee . |
| 13 | His grandfather had been sent to the stars in 1912 , when they still knew how to raise megaliths " the old-fashioned way " , which Ranteallo ruefully confessed to us was damn well more than he could do for his father now . |
| 14 | By Miliutin 's reckoning , no more than 1.8 million men could actually be enlisted , and 800,000 of these had been called to the colours already . |
| 15 | The Guérigny house was crumbling into the ground , the garden was overgrown ; the cave had been bequeathed to the beasts of the forest . |
| 16 | In June 1940 , Dean Pollard had reported to the committee that an infant , Margaret C. , who had been born at St. Peter 's , and who had a double harelip and cleft palate , had been referred to the Children 's Hospital , Great Ormond Street . |
| 17 | The future of " Chetniks " and " Croats " had been referred to the Chiefs of Staff by AFHQ on 17 May , and on the same day AFHQ had issued the " Distone order " to Eighth Army . |
| 18 | The design had been calculated to the blocks of internal wall . |
| 19 | Two hundred thousand veterans had been recalled to the Eagles , the half-pay officers had been restored to their battalions , and the arsenals of France had been filled . |
| 20 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 21 | Three replies had been received to the applications he had sent , and had been opened by his father as Joe had asked . |
| 22 | The working class had been defined , by exclusion ; the master-manufacturers , who had Ricardo 's blessing , had been assimilated to the landlords , who had not ; and so promoted into privilege . |
| 23 | Present-day health officials would have been horrified as the 15,000 strong crowd fell upon the pieces that had been flung to the winds and ate them . |
| 24 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 25 | The information Mrs gave to me was as she stated that erm an anonymous phone call had been made to the police station , which she had received . |
| 26 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 27 | By then he had been transferred to the remnants of the British Battalion of the International Brigade . |
| 28 | Owing to the limited dispersal area and the possibility of enemy air attack in the Clyde area , the decision was made not to risk ferrying any more to Renfrew until the 23 Spitfires already on the ground had been transferred to the docks in Glasgow . |
| 29 | The transcript departed from aspects of the evidence which Reagan had given to the Tower Commission in 1987 , and suggested that he had returned to his earliest explanations of the Iran-contra affair , insisting that he did not trade arms for hostages and had seen not " one iota " of evidence that profits from the operation had been diverted to the contras . |
| 30 | He had been posted to the police in Asyut and had hated his time there . |