Example sentences of "had [been] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a list of all bodies that had been positively identified to date . |
| 2 | More than 200,000 cases of AIDS had been officially reported to WHO by more than 150 countries by the end of 1989 , and it was estimated that between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 people were HIV-positive . |
| 3 | He had been tentatively invited to dinner at Hampstead once or twice , but Dinah had not taken to him , except to mock and imitate him after he had gone . |
| 4 | Among those with motor neurone disease , five had been previously admitted to hospital with peptic ulcer in comparison with an expected number of 7.4 ( morbidity ration 0.68 , 95% confidence intervals : 0.2 to 1.6 ) . |
| 5 | Those who had been previously addicted to opioids could perceive no changes whatsoever . |
| 6 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 7 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 8 | The increasing judicial leniency shown to Sendero suspects had especially alienated the army from the judiciary , many of whose circuit judges had been habitually subjected to death threats by the guerrillas or were known to have accepted bribes from them . |
| 9 | Although Dowding 's administration had been narrowly returned to office in February 1989 [ see p. 36466 ] , its popularity continued to decline in the face of ongoing allegations concerning its financial competence and its relationship with beleaguered Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 10 | FIFA president Joao Havelange and general secretary Sepp Blatter were holding a crisis meeting at the time with UEFA officials and French federation president Jean Fournet-Fayard , who had been urgently summoned to Zurich . |
| 11 | It had been almost razed to street level as the fire burnt all the wooden beams and the pews , but the lower hall was intact , water had seeped into the choir robing room and was spoiling the hymn books . |
| 12 | By the end of last year , when they had three of the children , he had been almost driven to distraction . |
| 13 | The priest had been summarily done to death . |
| 14 | This appealed to them as their grocery listing had been long ticked to exhaustion and their husbands were all unsympathetic pathetics . |
| 15 | McAdam 's aircraft had been virtually shot to pieces during the combat , while Flg.Off . |
| 16 | The radio had been virtually closed to TANU 's campaign for independence , whereas the same period saw the emergence of a modest , but nevertheless committed , nationalist press . |
| 17 | Missionaries were trained in monasteries , their schools and libraries were vital to the educational effort ( the learning of Charlemagne 's court school had been quickly dispersed to monasteries ) , their rules of life became yardsticks of Christian living which influenced lay people , and their pioneering character as landlords and organizers of economic wealth should not be overlooked . |
| 18 | HARMONY IN MY HEAD Brian May I spoke to Brian May on the day the news broke that his guitar had been mistakenly despatched to France by a roadie , to await an uncertain fate at the hands of ‘ lost and found ’ … |
| 19 | Even if my aunt had been mentally lost to Uncle Félix years ago , as the mater said , he 'd hardly be thinking about marriage to another woman at such a time . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) had been safely ferried to France under the watchful eye of the British Navy . |