Example sentences of "they could [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 2 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 3 | If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death . |
| 4 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
| 6 | The case was adjourned so they could be committed to Crown court for trial . |