Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers acting on behalf of the defendants had claimed that neither evidence nor witnesses had been presented to support the prosecution . |
| 2 | She was of course interested in his progress , but as he had already told them , a mother substitute had been appointed to give the child his direct physical care . |
| 3 | He had been appointed to manage the Laboratory and he would manage it in his own style . |
| 4 | Because twin gables flanking a central valley gutter had been adopted to cap the elevation of the 1922 extension , it was not possible to form an upper storey in this section . |
| 5 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 6 | The vicarage had been built to match the church and the style of the rooms had not yet , and perhaps never would , become fashionable again . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 9 | This interview had been granted to set the record straight . |
| 10 | The only organized contingent were the men , who had been relegated to run the crèche in a nearby hall , set up each morning with military precision . |
| 11 | Typically , it had been Ivy , he 'd learned , who had been sent to collect the letter from Ruggiero which the gang had left in the rubbish skip . |
| 12 | A letter had been sent to remind the authority . |
| 13 | The child had been sent to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour , and was on her way home again . |
| 14 | On Sept. 30 , 120 more monitors had been sent to cover the situation on the Hungarian border and in Bosnia-Hercegovina , bringing their total to 200 . |
| 15 | FitzAlan could not have made his opinion of her clearer , and yet for an insane moment there , shaken by his reasoned judgements of Stephen and Matilda , she had been tempted to confess the truth and beg for his help . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding the two occasions on which he had been tempted to abandon the Army for politics , and the cordial relations he had maintained with the CEDA , Franco was disdainful and suspicious of politicians . |
| 17 | He had been tempted to use the President 's Land-Rover but the tracks would have shown . |
| 18 | He was attending a conference which had been called to discuss the formation of a police force in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | Nothing had been done to prettify the site as at Sizewell , on the Suffolk coast , or to produce the pleasantly laid-out grounds of smooth lawn , flowering trees and shrubs which so agreeably impressed him on his periodic visits to Winfrith in Dorset . |
| 20 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 21 | She guessed that , whatever had been done to minimise the damage , he 'd have a headache by now , and she could n't stop herself feeling an immediate pang of sympathy . |
| 22 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 23 | He said a heavy recovery vehicle had been dispatched to clear the road for the convoy , which is carrying 72 tonnes of wheat flour and family parcels . |
| 24 | This claim was based on the perception that ( i ) no police had been deployed to counter the attack , despite warnings that it was expected ; ( ii ) police had dispersed residents from barricades which they had erected to protect themselves ; and ( ii ) several of the attackers had arrived in police armoured vehicles and had later been escorted back to the hostel by police . |
| 25 | Back home , the massed ranks of the Federal government 's press officers had been deployed to exploit the triumph of Goldenrod and the supposed deterrent value of President Reagan 's ‘ They-can-run-but-they-can't-hide ’ anti-terrorist programme . |
| 26 | In next to no time , the law had been amended to permit ‘ pest control ’ , and a £100,000 expedition had been mounted to track the animal down . |
| 27 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 28 | Sharpe , a member of United 's triumvirate of wingers , emerged as a substitute for Kanchelskis , who had been asked to exploit the absence of Pearce , and almost scored with his first attack . |
| 29 | But then , a week later , she had a visit from a strange man enquiring for her father , and who , after being told of his demise , informed her he had been asked to sell the property for which he had felt able to assure her father he would get a good price , seeing that land around was scarce . |
| 30 | The elector was a promiscuous man : one of Wendling 's daughters was his ex-mistress , and Mozart wrote that he had been asked to play the piano to the natural children of the elector who were kept nearby in a separate establishment . |