Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stress alone can be more harmful than cigarette smoking and has been proven to operate indirectly against the fetus because of the woman 's behaviour under stress . |
| 2 | ABPC has been formed to take over from the project 's original partners , Total , Petrofina , LASMO , Inpex and the Syrian Petroleum Company — all of whom are shareholders in the new organisation . |
| 3 | The alternative to some form of conversion system is to purchase a printer which has been modified to operate directly with the Spectrum , just as Sinclair 's own ZX Printer does . |
| 4 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 5 | Sajudis ( the " Popular Front for Perestroika " ) had been expected to win decisively in the elections to the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet . |
| 6 | The £300,000 bridge has been designed to tone in with the area 's historic buildings . |
| 7 | The opportunity has not been missed to point unfavourably at the controversial plans for the Bode Museum in Berlin which , it seems , will not now be restored to its original appearance as when built for Kaiser Friedrich in 1897–1904 . |
| 8 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |
| 9 | But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , attempts have been made to get as near the truth as possible as the brief account given here indicates . |
| 11 | Sometimes , however , an alternative , less heroic but equally anti-correctionalist picture was painted : working-class crime was in reality mostly petty , irrelevant and not a problem , but had been made to appear so by the mass media blowing it up , misrepresenting it and creating crime-scares . |
| 12 | The venue has been selected to tie in with the trio 's preparations for the Hi-Tec British Open the following week . |
| 13 | The Immigration and Customs people at Ramsgate had been instructed to watch out for the Renault 18 but to keep a low profile and let it through . |
| 14 | Artemis asked , as she stood admiring her fifteenth birthday present , a stunning looking dark brown thoroughbred gelding which Jenkins had been instructed to lead up outside the house as a surprise . |
| 15 | A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date . |
| 16 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 17 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , they 've been told to cut down on the spending . |
| 19 | Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her . |
| 20 | It has been shown to correlate well with the assessment of splenic function by other methods in patients with treated adult coeliac disease and in such cases there is a correlation between splenic function and splenic volume computed from scintiscans after injection of radiolabelled heat damaged red cells or 9 9 m Tc labelled sulphur colloid . |
| 21 | A contributory factor to the muddled thinking on excise duty on whisky has been the discrimination in favour of imported wine , where increased consumption has been shown to cut away at the base of whisky consumption . |
| 22 | Not only is it hepatotoxic but trace concentrations have been shown to interfere seriously with the breeding performance of male mice . |
| 23 | Erm , they give a complex number of cues , erm , when they are about to finish their conversation , erm , I how did they manage to it 's shown , it shown through the gaze of the speaker erm , erm , the speaker coming to the end of long actions has been shown to gaze heavily at the listener . |
| 24 | This had been scheduled to open earlier in the year but had been pre-empted and postponed by Falkenhayn 's attack at Verdun . |
| 25 | Before and after Bridie 's pronouncement Anglo-Scots have been striving to do well on the international field at home . |
| 26 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 27 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 28 | McAllister had apologised to Rose for refusing her invitation — she had sewing to do for the bazaar , she said — when the front door had banged shut behind her and she had been compelled to run round to the back and come in through the kitchen . |
| 29 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 30 | ( 122 ) Criminals have been known to jest even upon the scaffold . |