Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 3 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 4 | The great grandchildren of those who had been gulled by the infantile speculative ventures on offer during the manic South Sea Bubble phenomenon had obviously been conditioned to react in the same wild way . |
| 5 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 6 | With Severiano Ballesteros , Nick Faldo , Ian Woosnam and several leading Americans also in the field , Olazabal does not have the incentive of trying to gain a place in next week 's World Matchplay at Wentworth : he has already been invited to play in the event this year . |
| 7 | Students due to enter the school that year had already been asked to volunteer for the parallel track , so two cohorts existed — those who had expressed a preference for the new approach and those who had not . |
| 8 | In one firm , the girls had practically been compelled to join with the men " . |
| 9 | The Ferryhill driver has also been instructed to wait for the arrival of the Crook bus before pulling out . |
| 10 | The conference has also been timed to coincide with the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 11 | For , hard on the heels of being asked to play in Jack Nicklaus 's Memorial Tournament in June , he has also been invited to play in the Benson & Hedges International at St Mellion , prior to which he will play a practice round with Jose Maria Olazabal , himself a former British Amateur champion . |
| 12 | The anatomical differences revealed by CT scans have also been found to correspond to the development of schizophrenia in identical twins . |
| 13 | John Landry of Lotus Development Corp , Philippe Kahn of Borland International Inc and John Sculley of Apple Computer Inc have also been booked to speak at the event . |
| 14 | But the term has also been used to refer to the work done by anthropologists who have lived with tribes they have studied . |
| 15 | Too Soon for Love was , like Cry Baby Killer , straightforward sensationalism of the still current topic of youth rebellion and teenage violence , yet another sequel to Rebel Without a Cause with Nicholson playing a secondary role in a gang of second-rate , cut-price actors who had clearly been chosen to look like the originals in the Dean film . |
| 16 | Officials from the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) confirmed on Oct. 31 that the DEA was investigating claims that one of its undercover agents , Khalid Jaafar , engaged in anti-drugs operations , had unwittingly been used to smuggle aboard the bomb that destroyed PA 103 . |
| 17 | As a direct result of expertise gained by the Getty conservators in the restoration of the Nefertari tomb they have now been invited to collaborate with the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation on the restoration of the tomb of Tuthankhamun . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That environmental statement has now been published to conform to the Committee 's requirements . |
| 20 | This system has evolved over the last six years , having originally been designed to deal with the maintenance of national standards in the National Certificate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | House spiders have often been reported to appear upon the scene when music is being played . |
| 23 | Such regions of regulatory interest have often been shown to correlate with the presence of DNase I hypersensitivity ( DH ) sites , as in the case of the β-globin locus , and other developmentally regulated gene families ( 16,17 ) . |
| 24 | They have even been known to depart from the Stricter paths of truth Sometimes — in a good cause , of course . " |
| 25 | He 's turned his cab into a mobile picture gallery , and has even been known to dash off the odd sketch of the people he drives around . |
| 26 | These works , although not for sale , have sometimes been known to appear on the market . |
| 27 | Elections for both the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly had then been scheduled to coincide with the June 1991 general election but were cancelled at the last moment [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 28 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
| 29 | Lord John , though a cavalry officer , had never been permitted to serve with the army . |
| 30 | He had never been encouraged to think about the way he looked , other than to keep his body fit for the Vibrancy . |