Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your car is suitable , or has been adjusted to unleaded , you will notice no significant reduction in performance . |
| 2 | Hospital studies on asthma attacks have concentrated on specific groups of patients ( adults or children ) or have been confined to specific geographical areas . |
| 3 | I am also disappointed at the amount that has been given to Scottish Homes for housing . |
| 4 | To ensure that the brand of yoghurt you are buying really is live , add a spoonful to some warm milk that has been heated to boiling point and then allowed to cool . |
| 5 | Due to its flat landscape , Norfolk has long had a reputation for its fantastic light quality , a phenomenon that has been captured to great effect by many painters . |
| 6 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 7 | Another symptom that has been attributed to excess caffeine is the restless legs syndrome . |
| 8 | The Platform began by acknowledging the damage that had been done to national relations by the repression of the Stalinist years and by later attempts to accelerate convergence on the basis of an allegedly full and final resolution of the national question . |
| 9 | The question that then needed to be answered was whether the dd fusion was being induced by collisions within the hot plasma — ‘ thermonuclear ’ fusion — or from some other non-thermonuclear processes such as collisions between deuterons that had been accelerated to high energies during the initial pulse of current and other deuterons of comparatively low energies . |
| 10 | Victorian market towns tend to be regarded — if they are thought of at all — as slumbering relics of the past , places of little account that had been relegated to minor status by the new industrial cities . |
| 11 | In this Chapter I shall begin by briefly considering the ( rather wide ) range of interference theories that have been applied to latent inhibition . |
| 12 | This is , I suspect , the beginning of a process that will lead to much the same outcome as was brought about by the hundreds of Government amendments — sometimes running into four figures — that have been tabled to similar Bills . |
| 13 | The method was used first by Kröner ( 1958 ) for the elastic moduli of cubic polycrystals and has been applied to composite materials by Hill , Walpole and many others [ see , for example , Laws & McLaughlin ( 1978 ) for references ] . |
| 14 | It was given to the Mid-Gloster Engine Preservation Society in trust for the museum and has been restored to full working order by members of the society . |
| 15 | It is not usually associated with lowered plasma proteins or cardiac failure , and has been attributed to increased capillary permeability , reduced tissue tone , and an inhibition of natriuresis secondary to increased tubular filtration of insulin . |
| 16 | How much more difficult when that old person is of a different race or culture from one 's own , has a lifetime of tradition and experience of which we know nothing and has been subjected to hostile experiences , whether the horror of the Holocaust or consistent denigration by virtue of skin colour ? |
| 17 | Her duties as a chaperone had become less evident now that she was accustomed to Paul and had been spoken to kindly . |
| 18 | Biological explanations of fertility based on principles of maximizing a broadly defined reproductive success ( Wilson 1975 ) have been useful in non-human species and have been applied to human populations with natural fertility ( Borgerhoff-Mulder 1987 ) , in an attempt to relate reproductive success with the resources available to women . |
| 19 | The data were originally analogue and have been converted to digital form using 10 nT intercepts along the flight lines . |
| 20 | Guidelines have been agreed by management and union representatives and have been put to federal ministers . |
| 21 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 22 | Some cases do n't seem to have any physical cause at all , but have been linked to intangible factors such as times of stress , anxiety or depression , although this is quite rare . |