Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we have a clearer picture than we did of long-term changes in demography and household structure , little has been done to fill out the picture in terms of living experience . |
| 2 | ‘ Like many others , I welcome the concession that has been made to leave out the airline staff and the railway employees and all the others that are left out by the dropping of clause 54(4) . |
| 3 | A request has been made to read out the module to be updated but this has been unsuccessful . |
| 4 | 5 Airborne Brigade has been tasked to carry out the mission , as the Army 's only dedicated force earmarked for operations outside the NATO area . |
| 5 | His death comes amid a widening split in the party between his loyalists and supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who leads a coalition government led by the PML and has been trying to take over the party leadership . |
| 6 | The major combatants will be the Council of Europe and the European Economic Community , The EEC 's commissioner for industry , Etienne Davignon , has been trying to sort out the EEC 's scientific programmes . |
| 7 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 8 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 9 | The backlight button or manual iris control has been used to open up the lens aperture in order to give the foreground subject the correct exposure . |
| 10 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 11 | Alfio Del Serra has been chosen to carry out the restoration . |
| 12 | Its " root " system has been found to extend down the face of a cliff 12m ( 40ft ) , and breaking the rhizomes stimulates buds on the remainder to sprout and produce more growth and spores . |
| 13 | It is understood that British Petroleum chairman , Sir Peter Walters has been shortlisted to take over the job . |
| 14 | To his credit , Lord Whitelaw having been forced to bring in the short sharp shock , dropped it when it was proved not to work . |
| 15 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 16 | She had been tempted to cut out the photographs and keep them , but she had n't . |
| 17 | We have met the terms of the loan , ’ Mr Cross said , answering widespread speculation that Mr Bond , whose commercial empire is troubled , had been forced to hand over the painting to Sotheby 's for resale . |
| 18 | And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot . |
| 19 | Benjamin Laird , chairman of Hallgarth 's governors , said several measures had been taken to weed out the culprits , but admitted : ‘ We will never wipe out the problem 100 per cent . |
| 20 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 21 | The hangar doors on the farthest building had been opened to bring out the helicopter . |
| 22 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | I 've been asked to tab out the solo and the ending from a song from ‘ Hasten Down The Wind ’ , Linda 's version of That 'll Be The Day . |
| 24 | We 've been sent to sort out the finer details , ’ Freddie said with a flash of inspiration . |
| 25 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 26 | Over 300 staff have been employed to carry out the service led by General Manager , Edward Clarkin and CCG have opened a new Scarborough Office . |
| 27 | The particular principles adopted relate to attitudes and stated priorities , so there are schools where something like the Danish approach is used , and other schools where committees have been formed to set out the principles of a formal system comparable to SEE or SE . |
| 28 | c ) The stakes which have been installed to mark out the areas of additional planting on the Sighthill Section of the Bypass . |
| 29 | More than 70,000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year . |
| 30 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |