Example sentences of "it had [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 2 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 3 | There was the faintest whiff of irony in the fax which Grant Baird , head of Scotland Europa , sent to Highlands & Islands Enterprise on hearing that it had been elevated to Objective One status in the European Community , entitling it to the maximum amount of regional development funds . |
| 4 | It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time , perhaps even since it had been laid to rest . |
| 5 | In the West it had been left to researchers outside of the mainstream AI community . |
| 6 | It had been left to Halifax — surely not by accident — to broadcast a rejection on the radio . |
| 7 | The 27-year-old from Madrid had started yesterday 's penultimate leg with a comfortable lead of 1min 36sec , but when he arrived at Newcastle last night it had been trimmed to 31sec . |
| 8 | Five years later it had been reduced to £212,000 . |
| 9 | It had been smashed to pieces because Timothy Gedge had followed them . |
| 10 | It had been introduced to Rome a century before Constantine . |