Example sentences of "had be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 2 | By July an outline agreement had been presented to Law and Lloyd George , by which 150 seats were allocated to Coalition Liberals , but no decision of principle was taken . |
| 3 | In repeated calls for a spiritual crusade by believers to reclaim for Christianity the states of Europe which had been lost to communism , the Pope attacked abortion , implicitly criticizing the Sejm |
| 4 | Most of his flock had been lost to emigration , but there were still 1,500 in Appin , usually with no priest , and remnants elsewhere . |
| 5 | During Debré 's premiership , these councils had been limited to defence issues , Algeria , and African affairs . |
| 6 | At the end of the study period 130 ( 38 per cent ) had been readmitted to hospital within Parkside ; 68 ( 18 per cent ) were readmitted within one month and 25 ( 6 per cent ) were readmitted within seven days of their initial admission . |
| 7 | George told Geoffrey she had been engaged to Play Peter Pan in the next production . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Liza had been sent to boarding-school . |
| 10 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 11 | Namawar and had been sent to hell-fire , came back in loud and strong . |
| 12 | Little Carl Mozart , then seven-years-old , had been sent to school in Perchtholdsdorf , a suburb of Vienna , and Mozart drove out on 13 October to collect him and take him and his grandmother Weber to see a performance of The Magic Flute . |
| 13 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 14 | One morning a letter arrived from my literary agent , Michael Sissons , enclosing a handwritten manuscript of some 100,000 words written by a prisoner named David Cooper who , ten years earlier , had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the Luton murder . |
| 15 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 16 | His brother , Mohammed Ali Hamadei , had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in May 1989 for his role in the hijacking of a United States Trans World Airlines aircraft in 1985 [ see p. 36666 ] . |
| 17 | Doherty had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 for the murder of a British army captain during an ambush in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Of the individuals acquitted by the Bologna appeal court four had been sentenced to life imprisonment and nine to lesser terms . |
| 19 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 20 | The higher proportion of the prison population which had been sentenced to imprisonment for offences triable on indictment meant that the sentences served were longer than before , with a consequent increase in the size of the prison population overall . |
| 21 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 22 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 23 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 24 | James Terry Roach , electrocuted in South Carolina in 1986 , had been sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was 17 years old . |
| 25 | Phan Boi Chau had been sentenced to death . |
| 26 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 27 | In America a lady had been sentenced to death for hiring an assassin to shoot her father and her stepfather . |
| 28 | Kadour , who held French refugee status , had been sentenced to death in absentia following a coup attempt in July 1971 ( see pp. 24797-98 ; 25156 ) . |
| 29 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 30 | Bazoft had been sentenced to death on March 10 after a three-day trial . |