Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
2 | ABO — cancelled : For some reason , it has been decided not to proceed with the DC . |
3 | ABO — cancelled For some reason , it has been decided not to proceed with the DC . |
4 | For some reason , it has been decided not to proceed with the DC . |
5 | But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers . |
6 | Staff at the Abingdon branch of the TSB in Stert Street , where Mr Reenan used to work , have been instructed not to comment on the affair , but with speculation that further revelations are likely to be published tomorrow there 'll be more pressure on Mr Reenan to speak . |
7 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
8 | She was given a parasol against the sun and when she had been shown how to recline in the litter , six dark-faced bearers lifted her up and began trotting barefoot through the city with guards running before and behind . |
9 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
10 | MI6 , Scotland Yard and the FBI had been called in to hunt for the shadowy Surrey-born spy . |
11 | A team of British scientists have been called in to help save the city of Venice from flooding . |
12 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
13 | His sister , he explained , had married a Tongan , and the couple now lived in Mainz : not perhaps the most attractive of men , he had been invited out to stay among the substantial ladies of the islands to see if he , too , could forge any links . |
14 | Before running the Validation program , ensure that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up to point to the configuration file for the LIFESPAN system being checked . |
15 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
16 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
17 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
18 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
19 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
20 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
21 | ‘ He 's obviously been brought up to look on the doctor as the bogey man . ’ |
22 | Six artists and arts administrators , who live and work in rural areas of Suffolk , have been brought together to act as the fund 's voluntary advisors . |
23 | If the Council 's Temporary Press Officer , who had been appointed solely to deal with the alleged child abuse controversy , had been given such confidential information , she said , they wanted to know who had given it to him . |
24 | Cindy is said to have been spurred on to achieve by the death of her four-year-old brother Jeff , a leukaemia victim . |
25 | A wide range of factors has been put forward to account for the urban-rural shift and its phasing over time ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
26 | A number of explanations have been put forward to account for the thick crust and high mean elevation of the Tibetan Plateau which also help to explain the great crustal shortening indicated by the post-collision convergence of the Indian and Eurasian Plates . |
27 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
28 | This is also the first time that the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) , has been allowed out to speak from the Treasury Bench in the Chamber . |
29 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
30 | Drivers have been urged not to head for the area where there will be road closures and diversions from 8pm . |