Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career . |
| 2 | Their contents had mostly been removed to Germany . |
| 3 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 4 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 5 | According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] . |
| 6 | He was out of breath , had obviously been dispatched to Heathrow in a hurry in case Adam turned up there . |
| 7 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 8 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 9 | Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction . |
| 10 | Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death . |
| 11 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 12 | However , messages had already been sent to Kinghorn instructing the purveyor to be on the beach with horses ready for the King , hours before the Council convened . |
| 13 | By this time , Bauthumley had probably returned to Leicester , where the tract had already been sent to London as ‘ very dangerous … a very wide door to atheism and profaneness ’ . |
| 14 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 15 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 16 | They had converted them into a fine house , which had been requisitioned by the Germans : the officer in charge was a Captain Foghel who , by the time we were taken to Tabiano , had already been transferred to Bologna . |
| 17 | Before the examination , one of the commissioners told me that I would not be one of the winners because the positions had already been assigned to others who were , for the most part , assistants to the various commission members . |
| 18 | In the autumn of 1751 , for example , Alexander Hume Campbell , the brother of the Earl of Marchmont , and member of parliament for Berwickshire , wrote to Lord Anson , the First Lord of the Admiralty , telling him how important it was to his interest that Lieutenant James Home should be made a post-captain , and reminding Lord Anson that this favour had already been promised to Lord Marchmont during a conversation in the House of Lords . |
| 19 | The ‘ Martello ’ had already been sold to Taylor Marine at Inverkeithing for further trading . |
| 20 | According to documents consigned by Sonnabend to the Supreme Court on 13 May , Halley had already agreed to hold a one-man show with them last May and all the works in it had already been sold to Sonnabend clients , as Halley well knew . |
| 21 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 22 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 23 | Parliamentary sovereignty had not been ceded to Brussels but merely delegated . |
| 24 | He welcomed the fact that VAT had not been extended to food and that there would be no increase in employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 25 | After pressure from Chatichai , however , the Prince announced on April 24 that he would attend the meeting , but warned that it could achieve nothing of value because the invitation had not been extended to representatives of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 26 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 27 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 28 | Dexel , a cellulose acetate moulding compound , manufactured at the Little Heath , Coventry , plant in the UK , had not been exported to America for three years . |
| 29 | The epidemic had not been confined to Bedford . |
| 30 | The control lanes show mainly full-length transcripts arising from elongation of the initiated transcription complex which had not been subjected to drug treatment . |