Example sentences of "a [noun sg] had be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth felt as if a blow had been delivered to her ribs with a mallet . |
| 2 | A loss had been turned to a profit and teamwork has led to empowered people with a commitment to the business . |
| 3 | While the branch line and the loco shed was working , a driver from the shed had unfortunately failed the railway doctor with defective colour vision and as a result had been relegated to fire-lighting and steam-raising duties . |
| 4 | Earlier , a minibus had been sent to Eton to collect the Tavistocks ' youngest son Lord James Russell , and some of his young friends including Viscount Lumley , whose parents the Earl and Countess of Scarborough were staying in the houseparty at Woburn , as were Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea . |
| 5 | In America a lady had been sentenced to death for hiring an assassin to shoot her father and her stepfather . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Commenting on whether a cake had been promised to Miss Dodd , she said : ‘ We were prepared to give it to her as a donation but she cancelled the order . ’ |
| 8 | Once a surplus had been converted to gold it could be used , for instance , to reward , and to supply jewellers with the necessary raw material to produce lavish items of jewellery ; it has even been suggested that Scandinavian decorated gold pendants , bracteates , may have been a source of bullion like the later coins ( Hawkes and Pollard 1981 ) . |
| 9 | If a person had been admitted to hospital for coronary heart disease we used the date of first admission as the incidence date . |
| 10 | For example , subjects were able to remember whether a character had been referred to by name or by pronominal reference ( as in , He wo n't leave Rachel 's room / Mac wo n't leave Rachel 's room ) and whether an utterance had contained a full clausal unit or an abbreviated elliptical clause ( as in You mean that Jamie does n't know that his mother is in the hospital yet ? / You mean that Jamie does n't know that yet ? ) . |
| 11 | All possible nonamer peptides with proline at position 2 were synthesized for CSP , LSA-1 and SHEBA ; where a sequence had been shown to be polymorphic variant peptides , for example cp10 , cp16–18 , were also synthesized . |
| 12 | A colleague had been dispatched to the market to enquire about the knives and Marshall had taken notes during a series of interviews . |
| 13 | Once , a message had been sent to Ford in Hollywood , entreating aid for the Navahos after a hard winter , and the director had found a Western script to make in Monument Valley simply to bring some money to the tribe . |
| 14 | She exchanged a few words with the shift supervisor , a dour Scot named Rachel McBride , and was told a message had been sent to Belial confirming their arrival and condition . |
| 15 | On Nov. 27 a warning had been issued to the government by France , the United Kingdom and the USA , to hand over two men suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 , and to co-operate in bringing to trial suspects in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 [ see p. 39215 ] . |
| 16 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 17 | A couple of years previously a letter had been sent to Keswick suggesting as much . |
| 18 | If a duty had been held to be owed to Dick then the occupier had cause to appreciate the presence of the child and the premises would have to be reasonably safe for a child trespasser and an obstacle to entry erected . |
| 19 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 20 | Over a million and a half barrels of herring a year had been exported to Russia prior to the embargo . |
| 21 | But not one of them had made her feel as if a candle had been set to kindling within her . |
| 22 | This had arrived and a copy had been sent to Inspector Lane . |
| 23 | The Foreign Minister , Faris Buwayz , who was leading the Lebanese delegation at the Madrid peace talks [ see p. 38513 ; 38594 ] , had appealed to the USA to intervene , and a protest had been submitted to the UN Security Council . |