Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career . |
| 2 | Their contents had mostly been removed to Germany . |
| 3 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 4 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 5 | According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] . |
| 6 | He was out of breath , had obviously been dispatched to Heathrow in a hurry in case Adam turned up there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 9 | Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction . |
| 10 | Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death . |
| 11 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 12 | However , messages had already been sent to Kinghorn instructing the purveyor to be on the beach with horses ready for the King , hours before the Council convened . |
| 13 | By this time , Bauthumley had probably returned to Leicester , where the tract had already been sent to London as ‘ very dangerous … a very wide door to atheism and profaneness ’ . |
| 14 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 15 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 16 | They had converted them into a fine house , which had been requisitioned by the Germans : the officer in charge was a Captain Foghel who , by the time we were taken to Tabiano , had already been transferred to Bologna . |
| 17 | Before the examination , one of the commissioners told me that I would not be one of the winners because the positions had already been assigned to others who were , for the most part , assistants to the various commission members . |
| 18 | In the autumn of 1751 , for example , Alexander Hume Campbell , the brother of the Earl of Marchmont , and member of parliament for Berwickshire , wrote to Lord Anson , the First Lord of the Admiralty , telling him how important it was to his interest that Lieutenant James Home should be made a post-captain , and reminding Lord Anson that this favour had already been promised to Lord Marchmont during a conversation in the House of Lords . |
| 19 | The ‘ Martello ’ had already been sold to Taylor Marine at Inverkeithing for further trading . |
| 20 | According to documents consigned by Sonnabend to the Supreme Court on 13 May , Halley had already agreed to hold a one-man show with them last May and all the works in it had already been sold to Sonnabend clients , as Halley well knew . |
| 21 | Aretha Franklin she was not — but the myth that her voice was never an ingredient on any of her hits had finally been laid to rest . |
| 22 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
| 23 | Second was the husband of Mrs Chapple ; Mrs Chapple had just been admitted to hospital and seemed unlikely to return home : |
| 24 | Hitherto , provision of adult deaf organisations had largely been confined to church services and other pastoral services , but in 1871 , a most important step was taken with the founding of Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Football Club , the first sports dub for the deaf in this country . |
| 25 | Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler 's superhuman heroism , I had always been attracted to Germany . |
| 26 | Laura had often wondered whether their union had always been doomed to failure … whether her deep unhappiness at the sudden death of her mother , and her father 's disastrous illness , had merely accelerated the inevitable swift decline and end to her marriage . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It operated also with regard to lands and rights that had once been given to God or the saints : the gift could never be withdrawn or diminished without sin . |
| 29 | Whereas the company had formerly been limited to films which cost between £150,000 and 200,000 , it could now stretch up to £700,000 . |
| 30 | Its central theme concerns a young man , Colby Simpkins , who has entered the service of Sir Claude Mulhammer as a " confidential clerk " ; Mulhammer in fact believes Colby to be his illegitimate son , raised by a Mrs Guzzard in Teddington , but his paternity is thrown in doubt when Sir Claude 's wife , Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer , claims Colby as her own illegitimate son who had also been dispatched to Mrs Guzzard . |