Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 2 | Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping . |
| 3 | Earlier , this obsession had been carried to absurd lengths with the determined pursuit of Sarah Tisdall and Clive Ponting . |
| 4 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 5 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 6 | During the preparation of this article Professor Howard Mayer Brown was constantly in my mind ; indeed , its title alludes to a phrase coined by him ‘ The English a cappella heresy ’ The news of his death came only days after the final typescript had been submitted to Early music . |
| 7 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 8 | At the same time , however , some of these weaknesses might have been avoided if more careful attention had been given to commercial needs by those originally responsible for framing the administrative structures of nationalised industries [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
| 9 | Livestock in the area had been closely monitored but little attention had been paid to wild fowl . |
| 10 | The fort had been subjected to ceaseless bombardment from the start of the German offensive and had been almost flattened , bottom . |
| 11 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 12 | In about 1800 , a bull and two heifers from the Duke of Bedford 's herd had been exported to southern Africa in order to improve the weak , long-legged local oxen . |
| 13 | Thus much three-dimensional work was evident in the Art rooms a year later , homework had been given greater emphasis , a tentative start had been made to interdepartmental links with Craft and Needlecraft and the ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level courses were being revised . |
| 14 | Rover spokesman Ian Strachan said the cash offer had been made to white and blue collar workers throughout the group . |
| 15 | A report issued on June 20 by the New York-based human rights group , Human Rights Watch , documented what it called " state sanctioned violence " against women and claimed that more than 70 per cent of women in custody had been subjected to physical and sexual abuse by police . |
| 16 | Moreover , on Aug. 19 the government had been forced to postponed indefinitely the constitutional referendum scheduled to take place on Aug. 23 , following armed attacks on election offices . |
| 17 | In 1940 , however , there were many lessons to be learnt , for little thought had been given to major amphibious assault . |
| 18 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 19 | That view rested , however , on the assumption that the shareholders exercised ultimate control and responsibility over their property , even if the function of managing the property had been delegated to corporate managers . |
| 20 | The colonial government was upbraided for being out of touch ; failing to grasp that the colony had been exposed to liberal ideas from the outside world : ‘ The star of rule through the Chiefs was on the wane ’ , it declared . |
| 21 | There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 . |
| 22 | By 1987 52 per cent of the West Bank and approximately 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip had been transferred to Jewish control . |
| 23 | All Kate 's previous sexual experience had been limited to clumsy caresses which she 'd had no difficulty in resisting . |
| 24 | Some land had been transferred to environmental uses . |
| 25 | The Communist Party newspaper , Rabotnichesko Delo , revealed that unknown sums of convertible currency had been paid to foreign publishers to produce Mr Zhivkov 's books . |
| 26 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 27 | It was 1968 and the Crystal Palace track had been converted to Tartan in readiness for the Mexico City Olympic Games which were to be held on synthetic surfacing for the first time . |
| 28 | But though the contents still belonged to the family trustees , the house had been sold to British Coal . |
| 29 | Tens of thousands of Popular Front supporters , most of them refugees from Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia , criticised the Azerbaijani CP leadership for acquiescing in the central Soviet authorities ' retaining responsibility for security in Nagorny Karabakh when the region had been restored to Azerbaijani control in November 1989 following 10 months of direct rule from Moscow [ see p. 37044 ] . |
| 30 | The daughter 's second interview unfortunately did not take place until shortly after her mother had been admitted to long-stay care but it illustrates well the mixture of feelings which can be expressed . |