Example sentences of "[conj] have be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report stated that 250 people had disappeared or had been put to death in the " emergency zones " since he took office in August 1990 . |
| 2 | Would it be the , the will of the general assembly that we take a vote on the amendment that has been , the addendum that has been made to number two at this stage ? |
| 3 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 4 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 5 | The study will involve interviews and discussions with those actually involved in the provision of transport services with the intention of assessing the qualitative effects of deregulation and thus provide additional insights to supplement the quantitative work that has been conducted to date . |
| 6 | ‘ Considering the amount of effort that has been devoted to speech recognition research , the ‘ front-end ’ performance of speech recognition systems is surprisingly poor . |
| 7 | The group based its objection on the assurance that had been given to parliament that the hearing would not be held until the inspectorate was satisfied with the PWR 's safety . |
| 8 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 9 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 10 | Lorries , buses and taxis move freely along the Beira road , as well as on secondary roads that had been closed to traffic for years . |
| 11 | He asked his colleague if he would consider giving him some age-regression therapy in an attempt to deal with the problem , whatever it was , that had been brought to light . |
| 12 | She told Lucien how much the northerners resented the Ixmaritian tithes , and how in some cases people had shed their blood to resist them , a course of action that had been doomed to failure . |
| 13 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 14 | Salati and Vose ( 1983 ) , for example , believe that of the 8 x 10 6 km 2 of tropical forests that have been converted to agriculture , some 3 × 10 6 km 2 are now under shifting cultivation while 3.5 × 10 6 k 2 have been converted to pasture . |
| 15 | Sections that have been saved to disk from other designs can also be imported on to the current grid , so a completely new pattern could be created simply by combining various sections from other designs . |
| 16 | It is , after all , an approach that has served the rich rather well and will continue to do so , given the sweeping changes that have been made to wealth taxation . |
| 17 | Conserved basic residues , as well as the two histidines that have been crosslinked to DNA , are shown in blue . |
| 18 | Their works have disappeared as a result , and there are many more interesting things that have been consigned to oblivion . |
| 19 | Those that have been found to work . |
| 20 | In the forty-odd experimental studies that have been reported to date on periods of sleep loss longer than two days , hallucinations have been uncommon , tending to affect individuals in solitary vigils , rather than those in groups . |
| 21 | No a f a fossil is something that 's been turned to stone in the ground . |
| 22 | The election here has been fought on more fundamental issues than have been allowed to surface in England : in particular , the constitution . |
| 23 | The basic strategy of reusing information to create new information is well accepted and has been applied to writing . |
| 24 | The second man , 20 , has been charged with possession of cannabis and Ecstasy and has been bailed to Court on July 7 . |
| 25 | It is a successful breed and has been exported to North America , Australasia and European countries . |
| 26 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 27 | Namawar and had been sent to hell-fire , came back in loud and strong . |