Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 2 | Any material moving southwards along the east coast is stopped by the eastward projection of the Norfolk coast , which has been likened by Steers to a great groyne . |
| 3 | As payment for this help Sisenand promised a gold dish , weighing five hundred pounds , which had been given by Aëtius to king Thorismund in the fifth century . |
| 4 | Peter went next to the Latymer School which had been evacuated from Hammersmith to High Wycombe . |
| 5 | A few months later I saw two who 'd been evacuated from Sarajevo to Zagreb so they were still alive . |
| 6 | By the time Jamal Hamadan , accompanied by Sami Jafaar , arrived in Cyprus to meet his old friend at the Filanta hotel , Sergeant Mikalis had been banished to police school in Germany , and his successors in the room down the hall from the ‘ hot ’ suite had been drilled by Coleman to within an inch of their lives . |
| 7 | This group had been dated by Oswald to c . |
| 8 | In a related development , a US team which visited Israel to investigate intelligence reports that Patriot missile technology had been transferred from Israel to China [ see p. 38842 ] announced on April 2 that the allegations were " not proven " . |
| 9 | The soldier has been transferred from Craigavon to a hospital in Belfast . |
| 10 | Please note also that for this week ONLY the evening Mass at St. Philip 's Priory , Begbroke has been transferred from Wednesday to Thursday evening , for the Feast of St. Philip Benizi , at 7.00 pm . |
| 11 | The service has been relocated from London to Mafier House in Worcester Street . |
| 12 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 13 | It may be noticed also , first , that no actual misrepresentation seems to have been made by Duval to his wife , notwithstanding that he had concealed from her material facts and , second , that the pressure he exerted on her to persuade her to sign does not seem to have been excessively overbearing or to have been accompanied by the threats or false promises or intimidation that are sometimes the hall marks of undue influence . |
| 14 | The US government issued a mild rebuke on Feb. 4 in response to remarks which had been made by Miyazawa to the Diet budget committee on Feb. 3 , to the effect that the American people " lacked a work ethic " , that " speculative greed " had eroded their competitiveness , and that they had forgotten how " to live by the sweat of their brow " . |
| 15 | There is nothing new about this procedure ; the National Fruit Collection has already been moved from Wisley to Brogdale . |
| 16 | Tin had been sold by Shearson to Maclaine for more than £9,000 a tonne but prices nosedived after the International Tin Council market support pact collapsed . |
| 17 | Market leader Ever Ready has been sold by Hanson to Ralston Purina , which markets the brand in the US . |
| 18 | During that 45 minutes , when Arsenal fans must have thought they had been transported from Highbury to Camelot , even Anders Limpar on the bench was forgotten by them . |
| 19 | It had already been shown by Lewis to Dent , publisher of Dymer , who rejected it . |
| 20 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 21 | The penultimate saga of the Entebbe Four ( ‘ Chimpanzees on the run ’ , October ) is that they have been repatriated from Hungary to Uganda , where they are waiting in Entebbe Zoo to move to a semi-wild setting in their native land , courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute . |
| 22 | Hephaestus was crippled and ugly , having had the temerity to interfere in a quarrel between his tempestuous parents , and been flung from Olympus to the Island of Lemnos below for his pains . |
| 23 | Failing to win his love , Ayesha had killed him and had been condemned by Aphrodite to an eternal existence of longing and jealousy . |
| 24 | The original seven dwellings to the acre had been raised in Britain to around seventeen , at which density ‘ culs-de-sac and walkways , cars and garages did not merge into the landscape so happily . ' ’ |
| 25 | This list was sent to UNESCO last September and copies have recently been distributed by UNESCO to the Metropolitan Museum in New York , Sotheby 's in London , the International Foundation for Art Research , Interpol , and the International Council for Museums . |
| 26 | Jelfs originally helped SCO to set up in Australia and has been poached by Univel to be its number one employee in the Asia/Pacific region , responsible for everywhere except Japan . |
| 27 | During the trial the court heard that the vessel had been travelling from Libya to the Republic of Ireland with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA , the previous four having got through undetected . |
| 28 | The maize had been brought from Yugoslavia to Greece in two shiploads in 1986 and then resold as Greek maize by ITCO , a state-owned trading company , after the customs documents had been forged . |
| 29 | for when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people , he took the blood of calves and goats , with water and scarlet wool and hyssop , and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people , saying , ‘ This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you . ’ |
| 30 | It will be recalled that the proceedings had been adjourned from June to August , and about that time of year it appears that the first appellant was offered employment in Italy . |