Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Defence said that Belgian ammunition of that particular batch had never been supplied to the British Army , and how it had come into Britain was unknown . |
| 2 | The complement had now been raised to 145 and salaries increased by 28 per cent . |
| 3 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 4 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 5 | The warning came from the all party , defence select committee , whose Conservative chairman said the country 's defence capability had already been pared to the bone . |
| 6 | From the despair in the parson 's eyes the doctor saw that this remedy had already been tried to no avail . |
| 7 | Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction . |
| 8 | The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported on Jan. 14 that a former Soviet diplomat had recently been sentenced to death for passing Soviet defence secrets to the United States . |
| 9 | The inheritance had earlier been surrendered to the king and regranted in tail male , with reversion to the king if the male line failed . |
| 10 | Parliamentary sovereignty had not been ceded to Brussels but merely delegated . |
| 11 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 12 | The parent figures as a group showed gross excesses of psychiatric disturbance , physical illness and disability , and criminality , and the abusing parent had often been subjected to physical or mental abuse or neglect in their own childhood . |
| 13 | By two minutes to three the match had already been condemned to a dull spectacle , ruined by zealous over-officiousness and amazing decisions . |
| 14 | As the plaintiff had not been shown to be guilty of contributory negligence , he was entitled to recover damages , on the grounds of negligence . |
| 15 | Considerable press attention had already been devoted to a recent report prepared by the Escola Superior de Guerra , a senior military academy , which contained references to the systematic killing of street children by " death squads " [ see p. 38285 ] which were known often to be composed of off-duty or on-duty police and armed force members . |
| 16 | But Mr Smith 's and Mr Jones 's attention had now been drawn to my father and no doubt rather bored with what the view outside had to offer , they proceeded to amuse themselves by shouting out unflattering remarks concerning my father 's ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 17 | Another strange bird had descended in great flocks on the Mokai , much to Gould 's delight as only a single specimen had ever been delivered to England prior to 1839 , which was in the collection of the Linnean Society . |
| 18 | The waste had originally been exported to Belgium for reprocessing , in contravention of both countries ' laws . |
| 19 | Our captivity had never been linked to theirs , as far as we knew . |
| 20 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 21 | His name had not been mentioned to her at all yet she knew his name from the description straight away . |
| 22 | The element of wildness in his behaviour had originally been brought to the fore by Colquhoun and MacBryde , as a protest against repressive convention . |
| 23 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 24 | In particular the Bill was presented as being unopposed , but notice had not been given to affected landowners as required by Standing Orders . |
| 25 | His father had already been attended to and lay quiet and grateful on one of Zeinab 's sofas . |
| 26 | John Kamm , a US businessman and human rights activist , was told by government officials that all those detained in connection with the pro-democracy movement had now been brought to trial . |
| 27 | But this bridging paper had apparently been shown to , and agreed with , the Israeli negotiators before it was shown to the Palestinians . |
| 28 | But he insisted he knew nothing about either the debt or the court case because the bill had not been sent to his home . |
| 29 | During the 1970s , the major American companies , whose music had previously been licensed to the British firms , set up their own branch companies in Europe . |
| 30 | Since the Norwegian constitution did not allow the early dissolution of parliament , attempts to form a new government had quickly been reduced to two options , a Conservative or a Labour minority administration . |