Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Swimmers in distress have been carried to safety on dolphins ' backs .
2 The 20 groups of Tory MPs asked by Margaret Thatcher last year to write policy papers for the next manifesto have been told to hand in their work to Number Ten by the end of the month .
3 Recent PhD graduates of the Institute have been appointed to faculty positions at leading universities , such as MIT and LSE , and positions in financial institutions such as Salomon Brothers , CSFB and the Bank of Italy .
4 ‘ There is a bedding ceremony and once the bride and bridegroom have been put to bed and everything — but everything — sprinkled with holy water , then the marriage is completed . ’
5 Work started on integrating the collection into the NLS catalogue in 1987 and approximately 950 titles from the collection have been catalogued to date .
6 The museum was opened to the public in 1977 and a number of publications on the collection have been written to date .
7 Other cases of congenital diarrhoea have been ascribed to absence of intestinal apical membrane Na + /H + exchange .
8 With letters still coming in , AI will be sending out information on other street children 's cases in Guatemala — many of Nahamán 's friends who witnessed the attack have been subjected to harassment from the police .
9 Forty cases of illegal logging have been brought to court in the last three years , but the loophole in the regulations makes it difficult to prove charges , so a technique is being developed to date the year of felling , using tree rings .
10 In addition , links for progression have been established to degree courses and professional qualifications .
11 Empiricism and positivism have been put to flight in anthropology , philosophy , aesthetics , economics .
12 IBM Corp staffers and sources close to the company have been talking to PC Week about the company 's desktop software strategy , the core of which is the common microkernel that is to underlie all of its future offerings .
13 So far , only a handful of candidates for the TBM 700 rating have been asked to thing about it more seriously and take some refresher training elsewhere before coming back .
14 A number of women with no income have been sent to prison because they were unable to pay the poll tax .
15 DEREK ROBINS on the multi-talented Mary Whitehouse Experience the comedians who cause sides to split and tempers to rise THE shocking stars of the BBC2 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse experience have been forced to water down their controversial material for TV viewers .
16 But particular abnormalities in biochemistry have been linked to schizophrenia since it was first discovered that hallucinatory drugs could induce a psychosis .
17 Various other items of plant have been transferred to group factories .
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