Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We like to think that the arrangement of books has been brought to a fine art , so it was good to hear the verdict of Evening News reporter Bob Watt that there was ‘ bookshop tranquillity ’ and that you could ‘ feel the order . ’ |
| 2 | NEW MODEL ARMY fans have been invited to a clog clinic at the Walkley clog factory in Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Once computers have been introduced to a company and are found to be indispensable in these areas , it is a small step to progress to analysed costing . |
| 4 | All four Darlington candidates have been invited to a political debate on the Tyne Tees TV 's Point of Order . |
| 5 | An eleven year old boy who 's committed a string of motoring offences has been sent to a children 's centre two hundred miles from his home , because he keeps absconding . |
| 6 | One of the sideshows had a two-inch thick scaffold board into the top of which five-inch nails had been driven to a depth of about half an inch . |
| 7 | Public sector pay settlements have been limited to a maximum of one point five per cent . |
| 8 | The emotions have been likened to a musical instrument and it is a man 's task to play upon its uttermost strings . |
| 9 | A pesticide which has long been thought to cause sickness and death in farm workers has been subjected to a partial ban following an agreement between the manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 10 | Later , after various discussions had taken place , and LIFESPAN mail messages had been sent to a manager who had failed to respond , the originator of the latest DC received two agreements and one rejection . |
| 11 | Colours had been kept to a minimal dark grey and white with black and the occasional flash of green in plants and cushions . |
| 12 | Another situation creating uncertainty as to party status is where reservations have been made to a treaty which have been objected to by some States but not by others . |
| 13 | Replacements have been confined to a new head gasket around 3,000 hours and one each of pto and main clutches . |
| 14 | By 1900 , however , a Far Eastern department had been created and most of the business relating to African questions had been given to a new African department : in other words the administrative subdivisions were adapted to the changing political importance of different parts of the world . |
| 15 | Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal held that there was no case prior to 1964 in which exemplary damages had been awarded to a plaintiff who proved particular damage resulting from public nuisance , and on that ground struck out the claim for exemplary damages . |
| 17 | Among those aged 85 or more a similar proportion of those with and without living siblings had been admitted to a home at some stage but among those aged 75 — 84 more of those without any such relatives had been admitted : 30 per cent compared with 17 per cent . |
| 18 | Both firms had been influenced to a certain extent by an even earlier headhunting business , started by one Thorndike Deland in 1926 , which proved to be considerably ahead of its time . |
| 19 | The four home countries ' teams have been invited to a pre-Games warm-up meeting in Sydney , where the Kenyans and Canadians will also compete . |
| 20 | This is particularly true when only median summaries have been applied to a fit ; inspection of column 3 of figure 9.7 , for example , reveals that the residuals from the 3R smooth alone contain a large number of zeros . |
| 21 | When goods have been shown to a customer they should be … to their correct storage space . |
| 22 | Such social class disparities have been linked to a variety of factors , for example , the deficiency of safe play areas for children of the lower social class groups is offered as one explanation for the high rate among them of pedestrian fatalities . |
| 23 | With ITV and long-time sponsors Pearl Assurance switching their allegiance to the attractive invitation meeting in Glasgow last week , the championships have been reduced to a sorry state . |
| 24 | Dozens of the rhesus macaque monkeys have been sold to a firm which breeds animals for medical research . |
| 25 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 26 | The political ramifications of the case were highlighted after it emerged that two of the four co-operatives implicated were owned by members of Sharif 's ruling IDA and that substantial loans had been extended to a number of IDA politicians , including Sharif himself . |
| 27 | Bibliographic details have been kept to a minimum , with enough for pupils to recognize a book by author , title and classification number from the small selection provided on loan by the local school library service . |
| 28 | He trained the bees whose ocelli had been painted to a food dish , and then let them dance to their unpainted hive mates under an electric light bulb . |
| 29 | After all , during the First World War prices had been held to a twofold increase : the inflationary explosion had occurred immediately after the war . |
| 30 | Leaflets have been distributed to a large number of Colleges Institutes and Dance Studios . |