Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Angelica said that such a gesture would certainly catch the local people off-guard ; a new policeman had been appointed to the area about two years before , and everybody still referred to him as ‘ that newcomer ’ . |
| 32 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 33 | Absolute precision is impossible : there are gaps in the series of accounts from some ports , either because the records have been lost or because the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum , and there are also some irregularities in the accounting periods , although the customs year normally ran from Michaelmas to Michaelmas . |
| 34 | Military analysts estimated that control of over 2,500 sq km of territory had been lost to the guerrilla forces in six weeks . |
| 35 | He then proposed to gather an army to use against Aquitaine , to secure his alliance with Scotland , establish an alliance with Castile , foment rebellion within Aquitaine , recover what had been lost to the English and then attack and destroy England . |
| 36 | However , where the lease contains a reservation in favour of the landlord it is construed as if the right reserved had been granted to the landlord by the tenant . |
| 37 | The power to bind and to loose had been granted to the Prince of the Apostles , St Peter , by Christ Himself . |
| 38 | Officials said four units of the national police had been assigned to the case , including two specialist terrorist squads . |
| 39 | Sharon , a former Defence Minister and the architect of Israel 's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 [ see pp. 31914-20 ] , had been assigned to the Trade and Industry portfolio in September 1984 [ see p. 33244 ] . |
| 40 | The attitudes and assumptions I 'd grown up with had been razed to the ground , and a bold new society had risen in their place , a free-enterprise , demand-driven , flaunt-it-and-fuck-you society , dedicated to excellence and achievement . |
| 41 | Her house had been razed to the ground and her husband killed . |
| 42 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 43 | As her eyes adjusted to the muted light , Isabel saw that the walls had been limed to the height of a man , and that the windows were glazed , shutting off all sounds from outside . |
| 44 | The Mini was back in use and the Glory had been relegated to the garage until she ‘ had time to check it out with Mr Chan ’ . |
| 45 | The beggars had been sent to the caracol . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | His father , Robert Robinson , 58 , of Sidney Street , Saltcoats , claimed that an injection given to his son in hospital by a senior doctor killed him and if he had been sent to the neurosurgery unit at the Southern General in Glasgow he would have still been alive . |
| 48 | He had been sent to the school when a small child and had not heard from them since . |
| 49 | You know , Mrs Winkowski , girls will talk , and I suppose it was during one of Millie 's lonely periods while under the sisters that she confided in Annabel why she had been sent to the school . |
| 50 | The medical officer also said that the body of a friendless inmate , ‘ not belonging to this Union ’ , had been sent to the School of Anatomy at Cambridge ; the House Committee noted the fact without comment . |
| 51 | But Mr Stewart maintained the fault was with the plane and wrong signals had been sent to the flightdeck . |
| 52 | If the communication had been sent to the Paternoster Review , it had almost certainly been sent to other papers or journals , possibly to some of the nationals . |
| 53 | Then Nicu had been sent to the country 's second city , Sibiu , as leader of its Communist Party and de facto head of the local administration . |
| 54 | The first defendant learnt of this but also became aware that no copy of his report had been sent to the tribunal or was on the plaintiff 's file at the hospital . |
| 55 | After the catalogue had been sent to the printer , Sotheby 's asked the Oxford Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art to try thermoluminescent dating on two pieces . |
| 56 | ‘ A year later Hugh Butterworth , chief executive of Clark Whitehill , wrote to him saying that a copy of Mr Young 's will , which included names of most of the investors , had been sent to the Revenue without Clark Whitehill 's permission . ’ |
| 57 | After the items had been sent to the laboratory , Wickham suggested they congratulate themselves with a visit to one of the unprepossessing local pubs . |
| 58 | The security forces had been sent to the bank to escort Naim to a meeting with Khazen to discuss the bank 's refusal to advance money to pay for a contract to print 1,000,000 passports . |
| 59 | He would have had to herd with less congenial characters than gamblers if he had been sent to The Fleet or the Marshalsea . |
| 60 | They had been sent to the group as part of a fur " amnesty " sponsored by them . |