Example sentences of "had be [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The table had been sent out to be sprayed lacquered . |
| 2 | When the Countess tried to calm her , explaining the picture had been sent off to be cleaned , Diana refused to believe her . |
| 3 | The ex MFV had been fitted out to be self sufficient in every way , with the latest navigational aids , long range fuel and water tanks and a very comprehensively fitted out workshop on board for mechanical and other repairs . |
| 4 | Even with them pleine-airsme was not quite what it had been made out to be . |
| 5 | Beside this stood the cooker , installed , apparently , by someone who distrusted the island 's electricity supply ; it was a gas cooker , and had been placed there to be within easy reach of the cylinders of Calor gas that stood just outside the window under a lean-to , beside a stack of peat . |
| 6 | Our model , although it requires more than one site of learning , accounts for data from multiple laboratories and reconciles observations that had been thought previously to be contradictory . |
| 7 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 8 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 9 | Counsel were able to refer to three cases only in which the source of profits had been held not to be in the principal place of business of the taxpayer . |
| 10 | After the return to civilian rule , the newly formed state radio corporations , which had been set up to be independent of Federal Government authority , were immediately subjected to local political control . |
| 11 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 12 | She had been brought up to be thrifty and careful . |