Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] to their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet nothing of this sophistication has been transmitted to their flock . |
| 2 | The family has been offered £6 worth of vouchers by the company , but say they wo n't be happy until their son has been compensated to their satisfaction for his suffering . |
| 3 | Croatia 's acceptance follows on from the recent announcement that the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania has been reinstated to their former status as full members , a status that they enjoyed prior to the outbreak of the second world war . |
| 4 | His parents were found dead at their house by firemen who 'd been called to their cottage in Tetbury . |
| 5 | Though she listened for sounds in the house , she heard none : Sir Gregory 's organization ran smoothly , and all the watchers would have been sent to their posts long before . |
| 6 | The three biggest US airlines — American , United and Delta — had hoped that approval of the BA-USAir deal would have been linked to their gaining a bigger foothold in the UK market . |
| 7 | The three biggest US carriers , American Airlines , United Airlines and Delta Airlines , had hoped that approval of the BA-USAir deal would have been linked to their gaining a bigger foothold in the UK market and argued that the original $750 million proposal would have given BA wide entry into the US market while restricting US airlines from further expansion into the UK . |
| 8 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The plaintiffs failed to recover as no tangible injury had been done to their property — no apparatus had been damaged . |
| 10 | AT THE end of Mass , when the children had been dismissed to their schooling with Brother Paul , and only the choir monks were left as awed witnesses , Abbot Radulfus offered a brief and practical prayer for divine guidance , and approached Saint Winifred 's altar . |
| 11 | The reviewer of his book in the Edinburgh Review thought half of the thousands of imprisoned debtors had been reduced to their state by ‘ venial errors ’ or innocent misfortune . |
| 12 | A total of 45 soldiers and two officers of the elite Atlacatl battalion had been confined to their barracks during the investigation . |
| 13 | She did not , however , conduct any multi-disciplinary case conferences about the children until after they had been returned to their homes . |
| 14 | Nor does the contrary proposition , that the law does not contain the clear meaning if the legislators did not intend it and would have rejected it if it had been brought to their attention . |
| 15 | They had been bombarded to their knees . |
| 16 | There were a few startled shrieks , but for the most part the patrons seemed to be enjoying the sudden element of adventure that had been added to their evening . |
| 17 | Two hundred thousand veterans had been recalled to the Eagles , the half-pay officers had been restored to their battalions , and the arsenals of France had been filled . |
| 18 | Great hopes had been pinned to their reforms halting Africa 's downward path . |
| 19 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 20 | For two months they have been relegated to their school 's library , forbidden to attend classes or take part in any school activity . |
| 21 | Derive expressions for the torque needed to hold 0 constant under the following conditions : ( i ) when the plates are connected to a source of constant voltage V ; ( ii ) after the plates have been rotated to their position of maximum capacitance , charged to voltage V , disconnected from the supply and then rotated to a new position . |
| 22 | Like other state-sector workers , the Government promised to find new jobs for those they laid off , but in reality most have been left to their fate without support . |
| 23 | Thirty-one crocodiles illegally exported to the US have been returned to their indigenous Nigeria . |
| 24 | The prisoners have been returned to their cells with the exception of the damaged one . |
| 25 | Between 1989–91 , several hundred monks and nuns were expelled from their monasteries and have been restricted to their village of origin . |
| 26 | Despite their objections , Faringdonians have been drawn to their tower ever since . |
| 27 | Being only two miles away , their success has meant that many fair-weather ‘ Stiffs ’ supporters have been attracted to their games and in consequence our gate receipts have suffered . |
| 28 | But the people of Scotland and Britain will never forget the sad 13 years in which people have been brought to their knees . |
| 29 | Your own children , natural or adopted , can always inherit from you , whether or not you are or have been married to their other parent . |
| 30 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |