Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] been [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government would also assist the private sector in job creation for school leavers , many of whom had been forced to leave the island and seek work in New Zealand . |
| 2 | The area is home to around 5,000 Warrao , Pemon , Kapon and Carib Indians , some of whom have been forced to flee their homes , with a number making their way into the Yanomami reserve . |
| 3 | These students had also undergone a careful process of scrutiny , and most of them had been required to sit special matriculation examinations . |
| 4 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 5 | International Business Machines Corp and IBM Credit Corp appear to be seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market , Reuter reports from New York ; the loans are said to be being arranged by Credit Suisse and syndicated to a group of relationship banks , each of which has been asked to commit around $500m . |
| 6 | Contributing to the rouble 's decline is the Russian central bank 's predilection for printing money , a big pile of which has been used to finance other CIS republics ' trade deficits with Russia . |
| 7 | The origins of Coombe House lie in the 14th century ( the surrounding farms date back to the 10th and 11th ) ; today it is a Georgian building with an attractive garden , the perimeter of which has been left to flourish without the interfering hand of man . |
| 8 | The hoop consists of eight gold wires twisted together , the ends of which have been soldered to hollow loop terminals . |
| 9 | He also does painted constructions , some of which have been known to hang from the ceiling and others to rise up from the floor like tents . |
| 10 | The present owners purchased the mill in 1976 after part of it had been used to house chickens and the mill-pond had been used for fish-farming . |
| 11 | Then the toilet flushed and we wrenched violently apart , as though each of us had been struggling to get free all along . |
| 12 | Some of us had been trying to make our voices heard against Saddam through the long years when he was hugger-mugger with every leader of the western world . |
| 13 | The three of us had been going to spend the evening together but Buffy had slipped off . |
| 14 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |
| 15 | Most of us have been taught to see the Davy lamp as a scientific advance in that it saved the lives of miners because it would burn without causing explosions in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 16 | While alternative venues have been found for Nanci Griffiths ' concerts , the rest of us have been forced to imagine what might have been . |
| 17 | Instead of enjoying her leave one of us has been forced to spend days on the phone in search of locums while the other is deprived of the option of completing extra surgeries in her own practice with her own patients . |
| 18 | Yet what is interesting is that , when a query was raised as to the meaning and effect of subsection ( 2 ) , in the context of the liability of journalists to search and interrogation , the Minister of State described it in terms which are consistent only with its having been inserted to cover the case of a holder who himself was a party to the criminal purpose . |
| 19 | One tap from it has been known to drive the head of a human adversary down between his shoulder blades . |
| 20 | Inside it had been converted to make a dozen study bedrooms with shared facilities and a self contained warden 's flat , painted a bland cream throughout and carpeted with the tough fibre matting that was a feature of all the student halls and houses . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich , North ( Mr. Thompson ) is grateful for what has been done to help him with the preservation of his local Anglian Regiment . |
| 22 | Many other hon. Members are equally grateful for what has been done to ensure the future of the TA in their areas . |