Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously , non-surgical treatment of tubal pregnancy by local PGF2 instillation had been limited to cases with initial -hCG under 2500 mIU/mL serum ; higher concentrations were correlated with unfavourable outcome . |
| 2 | Her experience of suffering had been limited to rabbits-in traps . |
| 3 | In 1918 , after the vote had been granted to women over thirty , she resigned from the WFL presidency and devoted herself to a range of issues , including the Save the Children campaign , the Indian independence movement , theosophy , the Labour party and the early British Communist party , the London Vegetarian Society , and the Irish Self Determination League . |
| 4 | The grand jury was also understood to have begun investigating allegations that city contracts had been granted to friends of Barry in return for drugs and other payments , and the possibility that further charges would be filed was not ruled out . |
| 5 | Even some washhouses had been razed to stumps , people never hung their washing out . |
| 6 | Some minor differences , for instance the angles at which tools had been applied to surfaces , might indicate the hands of separate craftsmen ( ibid. , p. 75 ) . |
| 7 | But the polished surfaces of the furniture had been scored , even gouged ; the counterpane had been cut to ribbons and the eiderdown slit open in several places . |
| 8 | A rumour spread through the camp that a relieving force from Dinapur had been cut to pieces on the way to Krishnapur . |
| 9 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 10 | The end of the rope had been tied to ladders at the edge of the pier and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had seen the man who drove the car over him raise his leg to kick him . |
| 11 | All parties to the Afghan conflict had been invited to talks , which were postponed after disagreements arose between the rival groups over the conference . |
| 12 | Bill had been given to anti-sermons . |
| 13 | Yes , and you get all the animals who are experimented on and you sa there 's not a week that comes out and you do n't an a report saying , oh well this this , this causes cancer in rats or and you , imagine the amount , the huge amounts of the sub , whatever substance it is that had been given to rats to cause the cancer , and there 's no knowing that the amount that 's gon na be given to rats causing cancer , will give cancer to humans ! |
| 14 | With four Merlins now completed using this meticulous rebuilding technique ( and two more under way ) some thought had been given to methods of preserving clean and corroded surfaces alike . |
| 15 | By the time Jamal Hamadan , accompanied by Sami Jafaar , arrived in Cyprus to meet his old friend at the Filanta hotel , Sergeant Mikalis had been banished to police school in Germany , and his successors in the room down the hall from the ‘ hot ’ suite had been drilled by Coleman to within an inch of their lives . |
| 16 | The Donoghue v. Stevenson duty of care had been extended to situations where pure economic loss was recoverable . |
| 17 | The ambition was fulfilled earlier this year , when the building which had been converted to offices for many years , was restored to the splendour which is now The Regent London . |
| 18 | Mr Baillie said the part of the building which had been converted to offices was no longer suitable for care of the elderly and could not have been adapted economically . |
| 19 | In a letter to Archy Kirkwood , MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire , Sir Hector said that the survey made by Borders NFU , after Government lopped £2.25 per ewe off Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances , ignored very large compensating increases which had been made to farmers . |
| 20 | Chris Morris , the joint receiver at Touche Ross , said that some payments had been made to employees and priority creditors — essentially the banks — but said the chances of ordinary creditors receiving anything was ‘ only around half a per cent ’ . |
| 21 | Luke , who knew the play backwards , had been moved to tears by the moonlit love scene between Lorenzo and Jessica . |
| 22 | Under Lord Protector Cromwell , the property of the Deans and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , in the Manor of Chiswick , had been transferred to Trustees who sold off all the freehold reversion of the Prebendal Manor , including the ancient Manor House ; Homefields ; the Lord 's close abutting Chiswick Fields ; Barne Close and some pasture abutting the London highway ; a meadow called Prebend Mead and other land including pasture on Stamford Lane and many cottages up to Turnham Green , together with the windmill there . |
| 23 | Sixty six of the vaccine packages had been exposed to temperatures >10°C . |
| 24 | And the arms had been crushed to splinters and sawdust . |
| 25 | Previously the rate support grant had been distributed to authorities on the basis of a complex formula which took account of a number of factors , including levels of local prosperity , which influence the need for local services . |
| 26 | Yasmin Awan and Tahira Khan , from the college 's multi-cultural unit , said information on what was on offer had been distributed to communities and along with home visits and promotional events people were coming forward . |
| 27 | As of Jan. 28 some 20-30,000 gas masks had been distributed to Palestinians . |
| 28 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 29 | $1,500 million had been promised to countries disrupted by the Gulf crisis of late 1990 and early 1991 , and a similar sum would go to the creation of the new Global Environment Facility , while the special programme of assistance for Africa had attracted $7,400 million in new pledges . |
| 30 | In the West it had been left to researchers outside of the mainstream AI community . |