Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 2 | Torvale Building Products has been sold to another firm . |
| 3 | An offer of thanks has been extended to those who helped to make the event a success . |
| 4 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 5 | Now computers had been added to natural incompetence , and Cyril the Systems was on the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 6 | Last-minute concessions had been made to disaffected groups to win their support . |
| 7 | Police and army behaviour and tactics had been improved to some extent , especially in appreciating the need for reform policies rather than simple oppression . |
| 8 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 9 | Examination of records available on smoking related activity in the control schools indicated that pupils in half of the schools had been exposed to some incidental and unplanned smoking education through events such as No Smoking Day or through associated teaching in home economics or biology . |
| 10 | These characteristics have been employed to great effect by geneticists , and advances to date have been remarkably swift . |
| 11 | Programme makers discovered that guidelines have been isued to local authorities on what do in the event of a nuclear accident . |
| 12 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 13 | Disillusioned authors have been drawn to Western publishers . |
| 14 | Quantitative methods have been applied to social developments not only at the centre but in individual provinces , towns and villages . |
| 15 | In addition , desktop publishing drivers have been added to PV-Wave to paste graphics into DTP documents . |
| 16 | At Bikini shallow water reef limestones have been proved to 780 m ( approx. 2 600 ft ) , while the least depth of the volcanic basement is 1 600 m ( approx. 5 300 ft ) . |
| 17 | Many of the animals have been removed to other farms . |
| 18 | Many of the animals have been removed to other farms . |
| 19 | The map , drawn up by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , highlights waters off up to 10 per cent of the British coast that could be designated as special areas for conservation under the directive , but so far discussion of the sites has been confined to marine scientists within the British statutory nature conservation bodies . |
| 20 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 21 | Communications Minister Krzystof Kilian reported on Nov. 9 that there were 41 illegal broadcasting stations operating in Poland and that temporary licences had been granted to 19 radio and television stations which were run primarily by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 22 | By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court . |
| 23 | In a confidential statement to the council 's investigating committee Mr Horn said he had suffered stress since more than half of his duties had been transferred to another education unit in 1989 . |
| 24 | The notice of payment of tax as determined by the General Commissioners had been sent to this address . |
| 25 | Responses have been made to English Heritage on the management of England 's heritage and on changes to its role in Greater London . |
| 26 | All age determinations have been normalized to -25 in accordance with international convention . |
| 27 | Few areas have been subjected to uninterrupted denudation since then , but , as the earlier Tertiary climates were very different from the present ones , any surviving landforms could present difficulties to the investigator . |
| 28 | Here he describes the wetlands of Lincolnshire : ‘ Fens of water , mud , wildfowl , frogs and agues have been converted to rich pasture and arable worth from 20 shillings to 40 shillings an acre : health improved , morals corrected and the community enriched ’ . |
| 29 | Thus infant mice have been subjected to electric-shock treatment and their emotionality assessed later on in comparison with non-shocked animals . |
| 30 | Some twenty per cent of all Oscar-winning actors , actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another . |