Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been elected to an emeritus fellowship , and has our good wishes for her retirement . |
| 2 | It is sufficient for that person to establish that he or she has been prevented to an appreciable extent from enjoying the ordinary comforts of life ; there is no need to establish direct injury to health . |
| 3 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 4 | Optical arrays are ideal for parallel processing since light beams can cross without interfering with each other — and processing speed remains constant , irrespective of array size , once an image has been converted to an optical format . |
| 5 | Excessive faecal bile acid loss is well recognised in patients with cystic fibrosis and has been attributed to an inhibitory effect of intraluminal unhydrolysed triglycerides on the intestinal absorption of bile acids . |
| 6 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
| 7 | The film has been showing to an empty room . |
| 8 | The Grosvenor House Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon , Warwickshire , has been sold to an overseas investment company . |
| 9 | Marxist theory , in particular , has been subjected to an intense critical scrutiny , from which it has emerged considerably changed . |
| 10 | ‘ Again , the ground upon which a contract is voidable for duress is the same as in the case of fraud , and is that , whether it springs from a fear or a belief , the party has been subjected to an improper motive for action . |
| 11 | The UK is currently experiencing considerable social unrest and the legal profession has been subjected to an unprecedented level of criticism and scrutiny . |
| 12 | It is a fact that since 1976 , when Jim Callaghan made his celebrated speech at Ruskin , the education system has been subjected to an unprecedented flow of Education Acts ( 1980 , 1981 , 1986 , 1988 ) , committees of inquiry ( Warnock , Taylor , Elton ) and curriculum documents from HMI , DES , ‘ think tanks ’ and academics . |
| 13 | The old fish market has been restored to an immaculate standard . |
| 14 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 15 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |
| 16 | If the WGMS had been used in Britain in 1987 it would have been put to an exacting test in the South-East ( regarded in this context as one of the nine officially defined standard regions of England ) . |
| 17 | She sang very seldom during these years — an occasional Butterfly or Violetta and at the end of the war a superb Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte — and considered her repertory career to have been brought to an early end . |
| 18 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 19 | One was returned by the post office and one other had been sent to an inappropriate student . |
| 20 | She had been sent to an Orthodox Opus Dei school where religious education formed an important part of the curriculum , But , as she explained , she found that religion at her school was only designed to instil in her a sense of fear about sinning . |
| 21 | The principle of holidays with pay had been extended to an estimated million and a half manual workers in Britain by the beginning of the 1920s , but the economic recession of that decade meant that this figure remained relatively static until the late 1930s . |
| 22 | Thus , the yearly incidence rate was 0.03% for the whole population , and even if it had been adjusted to an age-standardised incidence , the observed incidence of 1.2% would still be more than expected , considering that the uncorrected risk ratio was 40 . |
| 23 | There were cracks in the walls and the steps up to the entrance had been reduced to an uneven and rocky slope . |
| 24 | A peerless champion of his own era , he had been reduced to an ineffectual has-been by the modern gunslingers . |
| 25 | His limited activities to date had been confined to an uncommitted setting-up operation . |
| 26 | She said that patients had been evacuated to an upper floor . |
| 27 | Some argued that the case had been brought to an early end as there was little chance of the prosecution being successful , others suggesting that the case had in all but final verdict already been won . |
| 28 | He refused to elaborate on his message except to confirm that it fell within the framework of UN Security Council resolutions , and that it had been delivered to an Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , Sa'adoun Hammadi , who had visited Tehran on Feb. 1-3 . |
| 29 | The floor of the inner room was of light-coloured wood which had been sanded to an unbelievable smoothness . |
| 30 | COMMUNITY leaders from both sides of the border have been invited to an ecumenical church service at Creggan in south Armagh today . |