Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economics has usually been subordinate to politics , and politics have generally been dominated by localism and authoritarianism , the latter being reflected in a view that ‘ big ’ government was best . |
| 2 | In addition , he has never been accustomed to wealth , nor is he interested in making vast sums of money playing league . |
| 3 | This process had already been invaluable to industry and proved to be so for penicillin . |
| 4 | He had even been able to purloin half an hour of Basil 's time . |
| 5 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 6 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |
| 7 | He wondered why , when other wartime files have long been open to scrutiny . |
| 8 | Departments in Fife , Aberdeen , Strathclyde , Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway have all been subject to criticism and controversy regarding their handling of child care and protection during and since the late 1980s . |
| 9 | A number of SCOTVEC modules have already been used to certificate European exchanges and work placements ( see article on page 4 ) . |
| 10 | Keith Joseph and Kenneth Baker , though I believe they are genuinely anxious to improve the lot of all children at school , have nevertheless been subject to pressure from the most inflexibly conservative thinkers . |
| 11 | I rise to support the motion moved in Mr name and I have always been opposed to fox hunting full stop . |
| 12 | Teachers supporting their local community 's campaigns have also been subject to death threats . |
| 13 | But questions about autonomy , and related questions about self and identity have also been important to feminism , and within feminist thinking it is possible to find radically different ways of thinking about these things . |
| 14 | In the past , the courts have often been hostile to exclusion clauses , particularly those drawn in wide terms which seek to negate all liabilities of the party relying on the clause . |
| 15 | Beer cans of these various kinds have actually been used to date sediments presently being deposited off Baja California . |