Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 2 | He was at Pickering castle from 8 to 22 August 1323 : an inquiry was held regarding venison trespasses in Pickering Forest since that forest had been forfeited to the Crown by the treason of the Earl of Lancaster' . |
| 3 | It was covered in lettering and had been riveted to the trousers , as if Grandson Richard was some sort of machine . |
| 4 | The parachute team from 11 Bn had been tasked to the Sandwich area that morning . |
| 5 | The Constitutional Committee , meeting in plenary session on Oct. 16 chaired by Yeltsin , called on the Supreme Soviet to delay convening the Congress until the first draft of the new Constitution had been presented to the standing parliament . |
| 6 | The original proposals for the interim state structures had been presented to the Congress on Sept. 2 by President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan . |
| 7 | The Great Education Reform Bill that had been presented to the House of Commons seven months earlier with the soubriquet of ‘ GERBIL ’ had , like gerbils , grown . |
| 8 | In his death the sand-flea had been raised to the status of a full Marine … |
| 9 | Meanwhile , on Gladstone 's resignation in 1894 , he had been raised to the peerage as Baron Rendel , of Hatchlands in Byfleet , county Surrey . |
| 10 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 11 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 12 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 13 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 14 | Pahadia , a Congress ( I ) general secretary who had been appointed to the governorship in February 1989 , was succeeded on Jan. 31 , 1990 , by Yunus Saleem . |
| 15 | The latter , who had been appointed to the post in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] , had resigned in mid-January following a central government call for the resignation of all state governors [ see above ] . |
| 16 | Bhatnagar , who had been appointed to the post in February 1989 , was replaced on Jan. 31 , 1990 , by Adml. ( retd ) Radhakrishnan Hariram Tahiliani . |
| 17 | C. Subramaniam was appointed Governor of Maharashtra on Jan. 31 , 1990 , in place of K. Brahmanadu Reddy who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 18 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay was appointed Governor of Rajasthan on Jan. 31 , 1990 , succeeding Sukhdev Prasad who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 19 | Krishna Kant was appointed Governor of Andhra Pradesh on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Kumud Behn Joshi who had been appointed to the post in November 1985 . |
| 20 | Sarup Singh was appointed Governor of Kerala on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Ram Dulari Sinha who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 21 | Jagmohan had been appointed to the post in January 1990 when the state was first placed under Governor 's rule [ see p. 37183-84 ] . |
| 22 | He had been appointed to the post in 1988 by Peres , who was then Foreign Minister |
| 23 | Melancia , who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987 , had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990 . |
| 24 | Angelica said that such a gesture would certainly catch the local people off-guard ; a new policeman had been appointed to the area about two years before , and everybody still referred to him as ‘ that newcomer ’ . |
| 25 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 26 | Mr. W.S. Johnston , the Second Master and Head of English , had been appointed to the staff in 1934 , initially as Form Master of Junior B. By 1937 he too had moved up to the Senior School . |
| 27 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 28 | Absolute precision is impossible : there are gaps in the series of accounts from some ports , either because the records have been lost or because the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum , and there are also some irregularities in the accounting periods , although the customs year normally ran from Michaelmas to Michaelmas . |
| 29 | Military analysts estimated that control of over 2,500 sq km of territory had been lost to the guerrilla forces in six weeks . |
| 30 | He then proposed to gather an army to use against Aquitaine , to secure his alliance with Scotland , establish an alliance with Castile , foment rebellion within Aquitaine , recover what had been lost to the English and then attack and destroy England . |