Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv prt] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old , inimical Adam has been beaten back to such seedy redoubts . |
| 2 | However , it is not necessary for the user to prove conclusively that the right has been exercised back to this date . |
| 3 | 3 A piece of string 36cm long has been pulled out to this shape . |
| 4 | More and more money from public taxation has been put in to such services one way or another , yet the services still do not work in a foolproof way , for a number of practical reasons . |
| 5 | It is almost as if all the punishment , admonishment and educative pressure which the aboriginal child has been spared up to this moment is suddenly and simultaneously inflicted on him ( here , for once , the masculine pronoun does not embrace the feminine because initiation is an exclusively masculine affair ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps some courageous reader will insist that the books are ordered , and the tide of semi-literacy will have been held back to that extent through the unsuspected influence of the popular cinema . |
| 7 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 8 | I recently discovered that this consultation paper had been sent out to some environmental NGOs in England in March for comments by the end of April . |
| 9 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 10 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 11 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 12 | Bell Resources would not comment on whether the payment had been made or whether the BIG shares had been sold on to another party . |
| 13 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , by the way I 'm gon na be able to see Max , I 'll tell you that now because I 've been dragged off to another conference , I 'm actually going down to the , to the rehabilitation workers ' phones |
| 15 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 16 | Letters have been sent out to all parents asking that they keep their children away from other nurseries while tests are carried out . |
| 17 | This information is however available in a new and comprehensive range of brochures which have been sent out to most companies and other business organisations in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’ |
| 19 | pennant 's Voyage to the Hebrides of 1772 carries an illustration by Moses Griffith which shows the castle almost separated from the land ; since then , the approaches have been consolidated around to either side of the eastern , landward façade . |
| 20 | The nation 's assets have been sold off to all and sundry and who has really benefited ? |