Example sentences of "had be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report .
2 A report by an internal party committee set up to review Labour 's failure in elections in November 1988 , which had been presented to the central committee on May 27 , strongly criticised Peres for running a campaign based on the cult of his own personality .
3 Mozart 's lodge , with others , was subsumed into a larger one , Zur neugekrönten Hoffnung ( New Crowned Hope ) , by which time he had been raised to the third degree , that of Master Mason .
4 Little objection had been raised to the forthright tone of What Is To Be Done ? when it first appeared .
5 Marshall had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 after a successful career as a civil rights lawyer , legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and an Appeals Court judge .
6 The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base .
7 After the failure of the 1754 conference Braddock had been appointed to the newly-created post of commander-in-chief in America , and he rapidly put together a force which marched north-west through the area Washington had been surveying towards Fort Duquesne , just to the south of Lake Erie .
8 A member of the Croatian People 's Party ( HNS ) , he had been appointed to the democratic unity government alongside other opposition figures in August 1991 [ see p. 38375 ] .
9 On Feb. 13 , 1989 , President dos Santos dismissed Industry Minister Henrique de Carvalho dos Santos " Onambwe " , responsibility for Industry passing to Domingo das Chagas Simoes Rangel , who had been appointed to the Internal Trade portfolio on Jan. 13 [ see p. 36481 ] , as well as heading a new industrial management commission set up by the President .
10 The lords agreed to this proposal immediately , and established a new council which consisted of the Archbishop of Canterbury , William of Wykeham Bishop of Winchester , and eight of those who had been appointed to the advisory committee , including March , Arundel and Stafford .
11 Most significantly , her great reserves of wheat and oil had been lost to the Central Powers , who now also had direct access to their eastern satellites Bulgaria and Turkey .
12 In Prussia provincial estates continued ; but even before the accession of Frederick William I in 1713 most of their functions had been lost to the permanent officials of the centralized royal government .
13 The facts were that Chetnik constructed two warehouses under a consent granted under the London Buildings Acts 1930–1939 , the consent being subject to a condition that the buildings should not be occupied until the consent of Tower Hamlets had been obtained to the proposed user .
14 The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it .
15 The fine for such an offence when this rule had been applied to the original directors of the House of Industry in 1794 was £20 it had now risen to £100 .
16 However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings .
17 Bond took over at Turf Moor shortly after Burnley had been relegated to the old Third Division .
18 Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship .
19 Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors .
20 When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward .
21 The appellant claimed that they had been sent to the wrong office .
22 Frances Foote-Wood , Liberal Democrat northern regional organiser , said mail in Stockton had been sent to the wrong areas and in Bishop Auckland constituency some people still had not received leaflets yesterday .
23 He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting .
24 According to the reports , Dr Asvat was killed after he had been called to the old Mandela home to examine Stompie when he was beaten .
25 Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish .
26 Little damage had been done to the surrounding farms since the beasts had concentrated their efforts on following the patrol and striving to enter Ivrigar .
27 In France whose who held high command , sometimes as lieutenants du roi , were usually princes or men who had achieved the rank of banneret , those senior knights whose swallow-tailed pennons had been cut to the square banners of their new rank .
28 The two malefactors had been displayed to the assembled school as ‘ Trespassers Loitering with Criminal Intent ’ , and were suitably abashed .
29 US Marines had been deployed to the nearby US navy base at Guantanamo on Cuba , to evacuate US citizens from Haiti if necessary .
30 In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp .
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