Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New modules have been developed to link with the requirements of the Road Transport Industry Training Board . |
| 2 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 3 | It is not surprising that , since Buckland 's editorial was written , the neatly expressive classificatory structure illustrated in his example has now been discarded to cope with the problems of fixed length codes and a single hierarchy . |
| 4 | The exception is not remarkable as H pylori has been reported to disappear from the stomachs of subjects in whom atrophy , with consequent hypochlorrhydria , has supervened as the organism requires acid secreting mucosa to survive . |
| 5 | Aircraft embracing decades of RAF endeavour had been expected to take to the skies — from Spitfires and Hurricanes to Tornados and Jaguars . |
| 6 | Peter had n't been expected to work in the men 's outfitters , never had and never would . |
| 7 | The STA as a whole was left with debts totalling £6,260 in the 1870s , and " the greater part of this sum was absorbed by the members of the Edinburgh branch … [ who ] above all others might have been expected to stand by the office-bearers till the debt was at least liquidated " . |
| 8 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 9 | For example , no attempt has been made to deal with the distinctions between gestural , non-gestural , and the various non-deictic usages of deictic words . |
| 10 | Other attempts have been made to deal with the types of complements found after causative verbs from a more or less " semantic " point of view ( cf. |
| 11 | In the short review which follows no particular effort has been made to distinguish between the results obtained with different classes of response measure ( accuracy or reaction time ) as the findings , by and large , are consistent with each other . |
| 12 | However , he has not been selected to play in the Olympics this year . |
| 13 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 14 | Clonal senescence has been thought to bear on the mechanisms of ageing in Metazoan individuals . |
| 15 | In mid-July , in response to Uruguayan concerns that it had not been invited to participate in the talks , the Foreign Minister Domingo Cavallo stressed that Uruguay was welcome to participate in future discussions and was not excluded from the common market [ for previous Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina trilateral trade accords see pp. 35309 ; 36273 ] . |
| 16 | He had been invited to speak on the factors which influenced investment location decisions as seen from the viewpoint of a European Industrial Planning Manager . |
| 17 | In one firm , the girls had practically been compelled to join with the men " . |
| 18 | He said that " international humanitarian agencies have been compelled to withdraw from the areas concerned " . |
| 19 | Although councils have often been appointed to sit on the boards , more recently they have been more open to direct local authority involvement : in the case of Sheffield in 1988 , for example , there was a substantial degree of negotiation over representation from the start . |
| 20 | We have been asked to look into the affairs of AB Ltd in liquidation : the company owes one of our clients some £800 . |
| 21 | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has been asked to look at the allegations and to arrange for certain persons who are said to be able to shed new light on the case to be interviewed . |
| 22 | A year earlier , when the discovery dispute was at its height , he had been asked to comment on the documents he had seen so far . |
| 23 | She had been asked to help behind the scenes as would any girl in her own home . |
| 24 | A motorist whose car damaged a crash barrier has been asked to pay for the repairs — even though the accident was n't her fault . |
| 25 | Last night a spokesman for Bristol Social Services confirmed his department had been asked to investigate by the police . |
| 26 | If you tilt your pelvis upwards , your abdomen automatically pulls in and your buttocks tighten , helping to straighten the ‘ S ’ shape that may have been allowed to develop over the years . |
| 27 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 28 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 29 | A total of 3 per cent referred to independent green audits , but none commented on what measures , if any , had been taken to deal with the audits ' recommendations . |
| 30 | Both men and women must also look for paid work and many have been forced to migrate into the cities . |