Example sentences of "to [Wh det] he [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His life had been spent tending the land to which he 'd been born and what more could any man want ? |
| 2 | Fortes , however , when later reviewing the work of Morgan , handsomely acknowledges the extent to which he had been foreshadowed by Morgan [ Fortes , 1969 ] , first in terms of his analysis of the way these acephalus systems work , and secondly in his understanding of the way that the continuing existence of politically active descent groups poses a threat to the organization and stability of the State . |
| 3 | But Arran did get his duchy of Châtelherault , worth 12,000 livres ( £1000 sterling ) per annum , in February 1549 ; and in June or July of that year , his half-brother John Abbot of Paisley was finally recognized as Beaton 's successor in the archbishopric of St Andrews , to which he had been provided in November 1547 . |
| 4 | He had rightly abandoned them , since the only way that honour could be restored was the path he had chosen ; or rather , the path on to which he had been propelled . |
| 5 | One from the LEA was about her 8-year-old son 's transfer to middle school , an event generating a great deal of paper including a list of the available schools ; another letter from the LEA explained parents ' rights of choice and appeal , also dates of open evenings ; yet another letter from the school to which he had been allocated required the parents to sign the tear-off slip and return it to their present school . |
| 6 | His appointment was the success story of this period , and even when the Goldsmiths eventually washed their hands of the School , they continued to help him with gifts to the Church to which he had been appointed in Portwood . |
| 7 | Creggan felt even more afraid , not of the strangeness and unfamiliarity of the dreadful place to which he had been brought , but of the eagle in the cage next to his . |
| 8 | The publication of the preface to Aden Arabie in 1960 signalled Nizan 's return from the wilderness to which he had been consigned by Cold War politics . |
| 9 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 10 | He remained until 1978 president of the European Broadcasting Union , a post to which he had been elected in 1973 and which he greatly treasured . |
| 11 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 12 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 13 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 14 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |
| 15 | In late December Alberto Jorge Triaca , a former Labour Minister dropped from the Cabinet in a reshuffle in January 1991 [ see p. 37959 ] , was dismissed by Menem as the head of SOMISA , the country 's largest steel mill , a post to which he had been appointed in May 1991 . |
| 16 | Innocent began now to concentrate on the imperial bishops and on securing practical support for Otto , who in turn was exhorted to assume a manly attitude and in short " to live up to " the title to which he had been called . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly Cato , having been deprived of the see to which he had been elected , was bitter about Cautinus 's consecration . |
| 18 | 3.17 In Bayley v Bloomsbury Health Authority ( Kemp & Kemp , Vol 2 , para E3-012 , Henry J said , in making an award to a student nurse who had suffered a prolapsed lumbar disc at the age of 20 , that there was a world of difference between such an injury happening to a victim at that age as opposed to the age of 33 , the age of a plaintiff who had suffered a comparable injury in a case to which he had been referred . |
| 19 | The writer would like to express his appreciation of the art historical studies of Teresa Gisbert , Leopoldo Castedo , Julia P. Herzberg and dr Luis Enrique Tord , to which he has been deeply indebted in writing this article . |
| 20 | Accordingly , if the applicant is to succeed he must show that the context requires a qualification on the following lines to be implied into section 2(2) : ‘ Provided that nothing in this Act shall require the person under investigation to furnish any information with respect to any suspected offence in relation to which he has been charged , except to the extent permitted by paragraph 16.5 of Code of Practice C issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , or any modification or re-enactment thereof . ’ |
| 21 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 22 | said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release . |
| 23 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 24 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 25 | In contrast to what he had been fearing , it was a trivial matter . |
| 26 | By way of illustration , he cited the case of his Preface to The Dark Side of the Moon , which , according to what he had been told by a Foreign Office official , would certainly be so taken ; but I felt that there would be infinitely more likelihood of the remarks of T. S. Eliot being heeded than those of E. W. F. Tomlin . |
| 27 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 28 | He stamped his feet like a restless pony , obviously anxious to get back to whatever he had been doing . |