Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he succeeded , Ireland might have been annexed to France , though , mind you , we 'd have been no better off than under England . |
| 2 | This territory had been annexed to Poland after its occupation by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War , a situation accepted de facto by the Western powers at the Potsdam conference of July-August 1945 ( the northern part of East Prussia being at the same time incorporated into the Soviet Union ) . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Ripa di Meana has been recalled to Italy as Environment Minister [ see separate item ] . |
| 4 | After a few months however , Mr Wilson had been recalled to London as the head of his company had been tragically killed in an automobile accident . |
| 5 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
| 6 | He questioned the evidence given by Professor Austin Gresham , a Home Office pathologist and Professor of Morbid Anatomy at Cambridge University , who conducted a second post-mortem examination on Miss Ward 's remains after they had been flown to Britain by her father , John Ward . |
| 7 | Two of those who suffered , now both seven years old , have been flown to Britain to study . |
| 8 | Kerry , of Sheffield , had been flown to Corfu by the Mirror — in liaison with South Yorkshire police — after a ‘ positive ’ sighting of three-year-old Ben . |
| 9 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 10 | A sequence of six lines with the same rhyme are given to Dame Sirith as , initially , she professes her conventional goodness and innocence to Wilekin : ( " I am a holy woman ; I know nothing of witchcraft but with almsgiving to good men I sustain my life each day , and offer my paternoster and my creed that God should help those in their need who help me my life to lead and should grant that all should go well with them … ) |
| 11 | As he followed the path that led towards it between bare-branched shrubs and sturdy evergreens , he fancied for a moment that he would come upon Morpurgo and find him a replica of himself , some doppelgänger of Dysart 's devising planted here in England whilst he had been banished to Rhodes . |
| 12 | After an unsuccessful attempt to depose his brother Hafez Assad from the presidency in 1984 , Rifat had been banished to Paris , a punishment akin to being kicked out of purgatory and forced to live in paradise . |
| 13 | The Ukrainian federalist Mykola ( Nikolai ) Kostomarov , who had been banished to Saratov after the exposure of the Kirillo-Methodian Society in 1847 , became a Professor of History at St Petersburg University in 1859 . |
| 14 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 15 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 16 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 17 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 18 | ‘ Daddy has been posted to Hong Kong , darling ; it 's a very , very long way away . |
| 19 | My brother , now himself in the RAF , turned up at the door of the Met Office one morning , announcing that he had been posted to Bourn . |
| 20 | Jock Hallett 's friend has been posted to Portsmouth . |
| 21 | A newly-commissioned lieutenant in the Green Howards , the 6ft 6in , 16st 8lb back-row man has been posted to Catterick Barracks , just a drop-kick away from his Yorkshire birthplace . |
| 22 | Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan . |
| 23 | The melody which receives Rachmaninov 's magisterial attention was not Corelli 's own but that old Iberian favourite , La Folia ( its origin has been traced to Portugal , around 1500 ) . |
| 24 | At a short distance from Monarch Hill towards the hills we find Blackman 's Dane , by 1731 this had been altered to Hickman 's Dane , the term having the same meaning as Dene . |
| 25 | Today the former Ryder Cup player has staged a most remarkable recovery — one that has been likened to Ben Hogan 's and has astonished friends and colleagues on the club circuit and Senior Tour . |
| 26 | Somehow I ca n't imagine a Park Avenue matron shelling out $200,000 to hang this startling pre-connubial portrait on her living-room wall — no matter that the work is executed by an artist who has been likened to Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol and called the genius of his generation . |
| 27 | He has been likened to Shakespeare 's Iago , to the Scottish grave-robbers Burke and Hare , to an ogre , to a rottweiler . |
| 28 | The choices of typeface available are limited to Courier , Line Printer and three Bitstream fonts — Swiss , Dutch and Courier . |
| 29 | These estates have a relatively high turnover of residents , as new workers and their families are posted to Shetland , others return to the south and some move into private housing in the locality , leaving the estate to escape from feelings of social claustrophobia . |
| 30 | The custom of cleaning the close had been explained to Madge on the day she moved in by a small woman carrying a metal pail and a large card . |