Example sentences of "his [noun sg] be [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His response was to report to Eisenhower that " the threat of communism in Latin America is greater than ever . " |
| 2 | In 1990 the state of Louisiana electrocuted Dalton Prejean , despite a recommendation by the Pardons and Parole Board that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 3 | One of those condemned to death legally , in August 1945 , was Pétain , though his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 4 | But his resistance was doomed to failure as the courtiers ' position was confirmed by several royal decrees . |
| 5 | Note how much more upright his rig is compared to B's , and also that by being further underneath the boom , it is easier to apply pressure to the mast foot . |
| 6 | He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration . |
| 7 | He had little more than a week , as his intention was to return to Jalo by 10 January . |
| 8 | A copy of his plan was sent to Spain on the very day , 14 April 1762 , that he replied encouragingly to a British approach about opening negotiations to end the war . |
| 9 | Did n't know why Summerchild should have gone to the Admiralty on the morning of June 24th , but his work was related to conditions of employment in the Civil Service and involved liaison with other departments , so nothing particularly surprising about it … |
| 10 | In Manchester , when the Baptist minister of Union Chapel , Alexander Maclaren celebrated his silver jubilee , his portrait was presented to Manchester Corporation . |
| 11 | Wahidul Haq resigned as Finance Minister on March 16 , when his portfolio was transferred to Maj.-Gen. ( retd ) Mohammad Abdul Munim , the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 12 | Although this still compared well with other Western states , in May 1971 the Finance Minister , Alex Möller , resigned and his post was given to Schiller , who also remained as Economics Minister . |
| 13 | His body was taken to Brighton mortuary for identification . |
| 14 | When his body was taken to Mangochi Hospital , staff were only told by police that he died in the night . |
| 15 | His body was hacked to pieces before an attempt was made to crudely incinerate it . |
| 16 | Mr Sharif 's first move after his restoration was to return to Punjab on May 28th . |
| 17 | He is an extremely nice man and was seen to be a successful and popular president , although his name was linked to allegations that certain transactions were not totally above board . |
| 18 | Irony seldom works in print and this blunt appraisal of the troubles that had beset his friend was made to Nancy Collins and published in Rolling Stone some fifteen years after the Tate murders at Polanski 's rented home in Beverly Hills in August 1969 . |
| 19 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 20 | Key forward Tom Cleland was missing after his wife was taken to hospital early this morning seriously ill . |
| 21 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 22 | There is a myth that Ramsay painted nothing of consequence after the 1760s , that his output was limited to replicas . |
| 23 | His father was transferred to Birkenhead in 1898 , and between 1899 and 1907 Owen was educated at the Birkenhead Institute . |
| 24 | All the furniture , silver , paintings , and the private jewellery collection stored in Switzerland by his father were returned to France . |
| 25 | His ideal was to attain to Christ , and to that goal he pressed forward . |
| 26 | His lordship was moved to reflection . |
| 27 | In short , any explanation of " x is greater than y " , it seems , still leaves us with a two-term relation whereas the reductivist , if his argument is going to work , needs a monadic predicate . |
| 28 | David II was crowned at Scone in 1331 , though effective administration of the land during his minority was entrusted to Robert Stewart , son of Walter the Steward . |
| 29 | It was also to be hoped , her father told her nanny prior to their departure , that by the time his daughter was returned to Brougham , the memory of her mother would already be fading . |
| 30 | He felt as if his address was saying to Broch : ‘ Do n't be afraid , you have been afraid enough for us . |