Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some club members say that problems have arisen because power at Rugby has been restricted to a small executive committee , and major constitutional changes at the club now seem likely at the annual meeting in June . |
| 2 | Mr Baughan has been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years . |
| 3 | Nineteen members of the University Lecturers Association picketed the School of Food and Consumer Studies at Robert Gordon University , where Mrs Falconer has been subjected to a redundancy dilemma . |
| 4 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 5 | The metamorphic gneisses throughout the Hebrides have been eroded to a gentle , undulating landscape as can be seen in central Lewis . |
| 6 | Lynne Deeley has been confined to a wheelchair since she was mown down by her own car in April this year . |
| 7 | It was reported to the Group that their request to the Council of the Law Society to commission a firm of management consultants to make an examination of the property market in Scotland had been remitted to a Special Committee of the Society comprising representatives of its Purchase and Sale of Heritage and Professional Practice Committees . |
| 8 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 9 | The Marchioness of Blandford has been moved to a private hospital as she continues to make a good recovery from a riding accident . |
| 10 | As you can see although Gubberford Lane has been added to a list ‘ awaiting financial approval ’ this may not be forthcoming for a long time . |
| 11 | Since last Sunday , Dr Woodward has been appointed to a further post : scapegoat . |
| 12 | Henry of Grosmont , whose earldom of Lancaster had been raised to a duchy in 1351 , died of the plague on 23 March 1361 , leaving two daughters as his coheiresses . |
| 13 | But TODAY can reveal the contract for signals controlling the track to London 's Docklands has been given to a firm called Alcatel , which has manufacturing bases in Germany and Canada . |
| 14 | Sue Owen has been appointed to a ( temporary ) lecturership in English at the University of Leeds . |
| 15 | A familiar landmark in Hartlepool has been reduced to a pile of rubble by bulldozers . |
| 16 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 17 | Aunt Harriet Craven had been married to a politician , a Cabinet Minister , so that always their Surrey house was full of weekend guests , men strolling in twos and threes about the lawn before luncheon , tall and important , and their lady wives , as Eleanor must learn to call them , in drooping hats . |
| 18 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 19 | Debbie has been referred to a Young Disabled Unit and a psychiatric unit ( ‘ On the second day they found her playing cards in the alcoholics ’ ward ’ ) . |
| 20 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
| 21 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |
| 22 | The fate of twentieth-century Britain has been shaped to a considerable extent by this economic and political dominance of financial capital , as we emphasise in Chapter 6 on Power and Politics . |
| 23 | P C Patrick Dunn had been called to a minor disturbance at a house in Clapham . |
| 24 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
| 25 | B.P. has been likened to a honeycomb where groups worked as if in sealed-off cells . |
| 26 | As a result , Lewis 's manager Frank Maloney has been called to a meeting in New York this week with promoter Dan Duva and Bowe 's outspoken manager Rock Newman . |
| 27 | The Doctor and Blake had been escorted to a small workman 's shed . |
| 28 | Stuart had been sent to a private school , his grandparents had paid , so that he was always under an obligation , do n't waste the opportunity , do n't let people down ; not like your father , was the implication . |
| 29 | Candidate Dr Donald Clarke had been invited to a debate at the church with the town 's three other candidates but the invitation was later withdrawn . |
| 30 | As at the Beginning the gifts of Pentecost have been renewed to a parched Church , and It can happen to Anybody . |