Example sentences of "had be [verb] to [noun] " 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 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then he grabbed a crystal glass eagle that had been presented to Mr Reagan , 81 , raised it above his head and smashed it on to the podium . |
| 5 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 6 | Progress was only about 30 ft. a month and the rate had been raised to £5 a fathom . |
| 7 | The company had agreed an overdraft facility with the bank that by December 1986 had been raised to £40,000 . |
| 8 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 9 | He explained that the Government 's original pledge last year of £55 million had been increased to £75 million , with a further £40 million funding to spearhead the regeneration of east Manchester . |
| 10 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |
| 11 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 12 | Elections were still scheduled to take place no later than May 1993 , and more than 115,000 refugees had been repatriated to Cambodia . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Most of his flock had been lost to emigration , but there were still 1,500 in Appin , usually with no priest , and remnants elsewhere . |
| 15 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 17 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 18 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 19 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 20 | During Debré 's premiership , these councils had been limited to defence issues , Algeria , and African affairs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Her experience of suffering had been limited to rabbits-in traps . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Champneys was one of a number of prominent London instrument-makers who brought a petition against Peter Dollond [ q.v. ] in 1764 to annul ( unsuccessfully as it turned out ) the achromatic lens patent which had been granted to Dollond 's father in 1758 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 27 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 28 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |
| 29 | On 19 May Gloucester ordered Robert Pemberton to seize Wymington ( Beds. ) , the land of Rivers ' brother Richard , and on 21 May the tenants of Thorpe Waterville ( Northants ) were notified that the manor had been granted to Gloucester 's ally Francis viscount Lovell . |
| 30 | Deputation after deputation came pouring in from constituencies whose candidatures had been assigned to Lloyd George Liberals . |