Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 2 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 3 | I 've been going to Glorious Goodwood for twenty years — and invariably play golf while I 'm there . |
| 4 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 5 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 6 | For over thirty years , along with my fellow teachers , I have been going to educational conferences , and training sessions , and workshops , to hear countless leaders in education talk , as you do , about the dignity of the child , and the importance of individual differences , and of fostering positive self-concepts , and building on the interests of the child , and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear . |
| 7 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 8 | Since this news broke , I have been subjected to numerous snide remarks concerning my ability to spot a footballer when I see one . |
| 9 | A further difficulty has arisen concerning the priority which has been given to judicial or quasi-judicial measures in the attempt to suppress racist discourses . |
| 10 | BEEF up to six years old which has been sold to British shoppers is ‘ 100pc okay ’ , Food Minister Nicholas Soames has insisted . |
| 11 | and we ’ ll be previewing the grand prix season in four weeks time … now next week the Oxford playhouse stages one of the sporting mismatches of the year … and cast in the unlikely role of trainer or coach is Alan Ayckbourn who after Shakespeare is the most performed playwrite of all time … the name of the game is a production about rowing called One Over the Eight which has been playing to packed houses in Scarborough |
| 12 | Alongside the Beaufighter and replacing the Sea Fury will be the Hawker Tempest II ‘ PR536 ’ /HA457 which has been restored to static condition for the RAFM by TFC at Duxford . |
| 13 | Newnham Mill , on the River Rea near the busy road junction , is an eighteenth-century water-powered corn mill which has been restored to full working order , its machinery driven by an undershot wheel of fifteen-foot diameter . |
| 14 | The machine is very different to the hug machinery at Castle Donington , it is powered by a large Petter Diesel Engine and is a 100KVA generating set which has been restored to full working order by a small , but dedicated group of volunteers at the centre . |
| 15 | Inequality in health , especially that based on social class or occupational status , is a topic which has been subjected to considerable scrutiny . |
| 16 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 17 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 18 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 19 | Still other male mice spent a single four-hour period inhaling nitrous oxide before being put with females ( none of which had been exposed to hazardous chemicals ) . |
| 20 | Schemes which had been confined to industrial workers before the war were typically extended to include the self-employed , farm workers and domestic servants . |
| 21 | In 1829 and 1830 the river Ray , which had been subjected to massive engineering works in order to drain the newly enclosed moor , began to flood the land beyond Otmoor . |
| 22 | Quite apart from the problem of reconciling these propositions with internationally comparative evidence on rises in real wages , increases in the share of wages in national income , and the growth of the service sector , the analysis fails to take account of the skills created by new technology — skills which have been exploited to powerful effect by those who possess and control them . |
| 23 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 24 | Improved handling has resulted from a series of innovations most of which have been related to aerodynamic efficiency . |
| 25 | Philip Field dealt with with railways in the Severn Valley ( not the preserved SVR ) , showing some of the station buildings which have been converted to domestic use , e.g. Coalport . |
| 26 | Cartographic data consist of digitized maps , that is , maps which have been converted to numerical form by the process of digitizing , which was described in Chapter 4 . |
| 27 | Buyers this maintains acquisition criteria of both clients and non-clients which have been notified to MAS . |
| 28 | In extensional flow , however , provided the strain rate exceeds the relaxation rate , that is , the rate at which a chain attempts to re-coil itself in order to increase its entropy , full extension of a chain can occur and it is even possible to cause chain scission , as evidenced by molecular weight studies made on solutions which have been subjected to high extensional flows . |
| 29 | These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority . |
| 30 | Oxford Crown Court heard today that she 'd been subjected to repeated indecent assaults by her mother 's ex-boyfriend at their home in the Wantage area between 1985 and 1987 . |