Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 3 | Alexandra had n't heard the Colonel sound this cheerful since he 'd been confined to the wheelchair . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The £798 raised was donated to the hospital 's radio station Crystal Radio . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of the three supermarkets looted was razed to the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 11 | 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' . |
| 12 | The parachute team from 11 Bn had been tasked to the Sandwich area that morning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The original proposals for the interim state structures had been presented to the Congress on Sept. 2 by President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In his death the sand-flea had been raised to the status of a full Marine … |
| 17 | Meanwhile , on Gladstone 's resignation in 1894 , he had been raised to the peerage as Baron Rendel , of Hatchlands in Byfleet , county Surrey . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | Bhatnagar , who had been appointed to the post in February 1989 , was replaced on Jan. 31 , 1990 , by Adml. ( retd ) Radhakrishnan Hariram Tahiliani . |
| 24 | C. Subramaniam was appointed Governor of Maharashtra on Jan. 31 , 1990 , in place of K. Brahmanadu Reddy who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 25 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay was appointed Governor of Rajasthan on Jan. 31 , 1990 , succeeding Sukhdev Prasad who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 26 | Krishna Kant was appointed Governor of Andhra Pradesh on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Kumud Behn Joshi who had been appointed to the post in November 1985 . |
| 27 | Sarup Singh was appointed Governor of Kerala on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Ram Dulari Sinha who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 28 | Jagmohan had been appointed to the post in January 1990 when the state was first placed under Governor 's rule [ see p. 37183-84 ] . |
| 29 | He had been appointed to the post in 1988 by Peres , who was then Foreign Minister |
| 30 | Melancia , who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987 , had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990 . |