Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to improve the world , to deliver into man 's hands some of those powers which had hitherto been ascribed to a snivelling and fictitious God ! |
| 2 | THE news that Peter Cranmer after having long been confined to a wheelchair , has had both legs amputated in Brighton General Hospital will sadden all who recall with admiration that famous sporting figure of the 1930s . |
| 3 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 4 | The following policy exclusions are of importance in determining whether a valid subsidence claim exists : o Defective design or inadequate construction of the foundations — e.g. where the foundations of a property have not been constructed to a level required by regulations applying at the time of construction . |
| 5 | Widely known for the large painted steel sculptures which brighten plazas and lobbies throughout the United States , and for his regular appearances in the New York salerooms , he is surprisingly unfamiliar in a London context and has not been treated to a museum exhibition in this country since the Tate Gallery 's survey of 1962 . |
| 6 | ‘ In general terms , this accident could have been avoided had the petrol vapour not been exposed to a source of ignition , ’ Mr Haddock added . |
| 7 | Those of us who have worked within the education system , in social priority areas , since the Sixties , can assure Janet Daley that these children have not been abandoned to a type of educational apartheid . |
| 8 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 9 | The possibilities of error at every stage in the handling of this sort of document have already been alluded to a number of times , and one would therefore need to subject the document to the most rigorous examination . |
| 10 | Some models suggest that the earth has already been committed to a warming of at least 1.5 °C by the current increases in greenhouse gases even though global temperatures have actually risen by only 0.5 °C in the past century . |
| 11 | The sum of £250,000 has already been allocated to a number of projects , ranging from the purchase of Porthor in North Wales to the restoration of Biddulph Grange Garden where BBC gardening expert Geoff Hamilton accepted a cheque for £20,000 in May . |
| 12 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 13 | I just been talking to a coupla friends of yours . ’ |
| 14 | This name has lately been given to a Trident submarine . |
| 15 | At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information . |
| 16 | Thus , patients were not always being admitted to hospital and , when admitted , had not always been referred to a psychiatrist . |
| 17 | The reality represented the truth about movie-making itself , and a final shattering of all the illusions that had ever been presented to a cinema audience , for , seemingly , he had not realized that he had built into his masterpiece a piece of self-destruct mechanism . |
| 18 | It asked the troops whether they had ever been linked to a group who aimed to overthrow the authority of the State , or if they had any family members , friends or associates connected with such organisations . |
| 19 | It was the best excuse that had ever been offered to a radio reporter in search of an interview ; ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I ca n't speak to you . |
| 20 | How many members of this crew have ever been subjected to a polygraph test ? |
| 21 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 22 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |
| 23 | At the time Jamila had been married , her husband 's brother had also been married to a girl named Zahira . |
| 24 | The results have also been subjected to a sensitivity analysis to see if any differences are sensitive to changes in the costing assumptions used , such as the discount rate or ward stay costs . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's probably been promoted to a key ring by this time . ’ |
| 26 | This study has now been tied to a vision of Englishness which is itself insulated from any concern with cultural power and control . |
| 27 | Why the Scots in general , and the sea-fishermen in particular , should have put up with this monstrous injustice is hard to understand , but the insult has now been compounded to a degree which surely demands some national response . |
| 28 | However , the Albion workforce , which has now been reduced to a strength of 480 after 67 redundancies two weeks ago , intends to maintain a high profile in its campaign to save the factory . |
| 29 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 30 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |