Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 2 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 3 | By July an outline agreement had been presented to Law and Lloyd George , by which 150 seats were allocated to Coalition Liberals , but no decision of principle was taken . |
| 4 | Then he grabbed a crystal glass eagle that had been presented to Mr Reagan , 81 , raised it above his head and smashed it on to the podium . |
| 5 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 6 | Progress was only about 30 ft. a month and the rate had been raised to £5 a fathom . |
| 7 | The company had agreed an overdraft facility with the bank that by December 1986 had been raised to £40,000 . |
| 8 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 9 | He explained that the Government 's original pledge last year of £55 million had been increased to £75 million , with a further £40 million funding to spearhead the regeneration of east Manchester . |
| 10 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |
| 11 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 12 | Elections were still scheduled to take place no later than May 1993 , and more than 115,000 refugees had been repatriated to Cambodia . |
| 13 | In repeated calls for a spiritual crusade by believers to reclaim for Christianity the states of Europe which had been lost to communism , the Pope attacked abortion , implicitly criticizing the Sejm |
| 14 | Most of his flock had been lost to emigration , but there were still 1,500 in Appin , usually with no priest , and remnants elsewhere . |
| 15 | During Debré 's premiership , these councils had been limited to defence issues , Algeria , and African affairs . |
| 16 | Previously , non-surgical treatment of tubal pregnancy by local PGF2 instillation had been limited to cases with initial -hCG under 2500 mIU/mL serum ; higher concentrations were correlated with unfavourable outcome . |
| 17 | Her experience of suffering had been limited to rabbits-in traps . |
| 18 | In 1918 , after the vote had been granted to women over thirty , she resigned from the WFL presidency and devoted herself to a range of issues , including the Save the Children campaign , the Indian independence movement , theosophy , the Labour party and the early British Communist party , the London Vegetarian Society , and the Irish Self Determination League . |
| 19 | Champneys was one of a number of prominent London instrument-makers who brought a petition against Peter Dollond [ q.v. ] in 1764 to annul ( unsuccessfully as it turned out ) the achromatic lens patent which had been granted to Dollond 's father in 1758 . |
| 20 | The grand jury was also understood to have begun investigating allegations that city contracts had been granted to friends of Barry in return for drugs and other payments , and the possibility that further charges would be filed was not ruled out . |
| 21 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 22 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 23 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |
| 24 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |
| 25 | Deputation after deputation came pouring in from constituencies whose candidatures had been assigned to Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 26 | Thomas Forster had been assigned to General George Carpenter , a highly experienced cavalry officer . |
| 27 | In the ‘ free chase ’ of Knaresborough , which had been assigned to Queen Isabella for life , they made an unauthorized perambulation and acted upon it by felling trees , planting hedges , and hunting the deer without warrant . |
| 28 | Party spies had been assigned to people sending sums through the post for the personal use of the bishop . |
| 29 | At the end of the study period 130 ( 38 per cent ) had been readmitted to hospital within Parkside ; 68 ( 18 per cent ) were readmitted within one month and 25 ( 6 per cent ) were readmitted within seven days of their initial admission . |
| 30 | Even some washhouses had been razed to stumps , people never hung their washing out . |