Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells . |
| 2 | A YOUTH who frightened a teenager into handing over his watch has been sentenced to 12 months detention . |
| 3 | The result means that Lillywhite 's advantage has been cut to 20 seconds by Simensen , now in second place , with today 's 86-mile stage from Liverpool to Salford and tomorrow 's city-centre circuit race at Manchester remaining . |
| 4 | Another site , some distance from the main concentrations , where a major change has been dated to 350 — 60 is the villa at Great Casterton . |
| 5 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |
| 6 | A joyrider who crashed his car and killed a partially sighted pensioner has been sentenced to three years custody for causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 7 | Mrs Helmsley has been sentenced to four years in jail , and could become eligible for parole in 19 months . |
| 8 | But it predicts that Dr Mawhinney 's 7.9 per cent lead over Labour has been whittled to 3.4 per cent ( Con 42.3 per cent ; Lab 38.9 ; Lib Dem 16.1 ) . |
| 9 | Originally it had been planned to convert five oil/gas-fired power stations to coal but this programme has been cut to three . |
| 10 | But currency stabilisation has been pushed to one side for another reason as well . |
| 11 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 12 | Profit and loss reporting has been expanded to 26 available fields , stock take procedures improved and bank reconciliation made faster . |
| 13 | While few throughout the country would still be prepared to wager against Rangers , it is interesting to note that the two main contenders have still to meet twice and that the points gap has been reduced to seven . |
| 14 | A barmaid who cudgelled her landlord boyfriend to death with a beer flagon has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment ( suspended ) . |
| 15 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 16 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 17 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 18 | In 1990 , after 11 years of Conservative government , the gap had been closed to 16 per cent . |
| 19 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 20 | At Bikini shallow water reef limestones have been proved to 780 m ( approx. 2 600 ft ) , while the least depth of the volcanic basement is 1 600 m ( approx. 5 300 ft ) . |
| 21 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 22 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 23 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 24 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 25 | But the law has been changed to one point six so we must accept that . |
| 26 | In the US , where the legal age of drinking has been raised to 21 , some would argue that the banning of alcohol on college campuses only serves to promote alcohol abuse by removing supervision and normal social controls . |
| 27 | A WARM welcome to the diocese has been given to two priests . |
| 28 | But shares clawed their way back and by the close the fall had been cut to 10.2 points at 2,289.2 . |
| 29 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 30 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |