Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child who had been taught to pray to a Mother in Heaven would have a religious life radically different from that of a Christian child . |
| 2 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 3 | The public expenditure cuts forced on the government in 1947 and the false sense of security that enough had been done led to less vigorous reinforcement of regional policy programmes . |
| 4 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 5 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The Health and Safety Inspectorate was informed of the incident and representatives from the electricity board had been asked to go to the scene . |
| 7 | ‘ He was very friendly and nice ; he wanted to know if Anna had been asked to come to the lawyer 's about her grandfather 's will . ’ |
| 8 | Several people said that they had been asked to lecture to a wide range of students and colleagues on the subject of their particular disability , or disability in general . |
| 9 | He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan , the Cabinet 's linkman with the secret services , but had been told that he was busy . |
| 10 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 11 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 12 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 13 | Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office . |
| 14 | The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads . |
| 15 | Footholds had been made to get to books above head height but if you wanted one further up then you needed a rope , helmet and the special climbing boots to help you reach it . |
| 16 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 17 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 18 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 19 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 20 | Last , I had to help the peasant and working-class boys who had been forced to go to university with no background education whatsoever . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the father of James Kelly said his son had been forced to go to England to escape harassment from the security forces . |
| 22 | She had been forced to go to the Refuge . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the Palace had been forced to move to Herne Hill by the time the match against Bob 's old club , Croydon Common , was staged , and it is not known what arrangements were made on the players ' behalf . |
| 24 | In his years of infiltrating terrorist groups Trent had been forced to listen to every form of philosophical self-justification . |
| 25 | I was very distressed to hear that Joseph had been forced to flee to Guinea after his friend and later his mother were killed by the rebels . |
| 26 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 27 | At a meeting with the director of Asian Affairs of Papua New Guinea 's Foreign Ministry in Marauke , Aceh Province , on Feb. 11 , Irian Jaya Deputy Governor Sudrajat Nataatmaja agreed to accept the return of 208 Marauke villagers who had been forced to flee to Papua New Guinea after armed clashes between the security forces and members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement ( GKN ) on Jan. 24 . |
| 28 | A further 30,000 people had been forced to flee to the relative safety of the capital . |
| 29 | He had infuriated the government by calling publicly for the resignation of Foreign Minister Geza Jeszenszky , whom he described as incompetent , and by complaining that he had been forced to lie to US politicians about the sale of Hungarian weapons to Croatia . |
| 30 | Following April 's revolution in which King Birendra had been forced to accede to protesters ' demands for major political reforms [ see pp. 37362-63 ] , the new interim government ( headed by Nepali Congress president Krishna Prasad Bhattarai ) moved to consolidate its achievements during May . |