Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Adrie van Tiggelen , the Anderlecht defender who missed the Wales game because of suspension , has been recalled to a 16-man squad which also includes AC 's Frank Rijkaard . |
| 2 | Britain 's first Professor of Petroleum Policy and Economics has been appointed to a new BP Chair at Dundee University . |
| 3 | Since last Sunday , Dr Woodward has been appointed to a further post : scapegoat . |
| 4 | ’ The Protocol added the following sentence : ‘ However , proof to the contrary shall not be admissible when the bill of lading has been transferred to a third party acting in good faith . ’ |
| 5 | Wimpey Environmental 's consultancy contract with the London Waste Regulatory Authority has been extended to a third year — bringing the total value of the work to over £1 million since 1991 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 8 | Like all broad formulations of principle , the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher had to be worked out in detail by later decisions , and it has been applied to a remarkable variety of things . |
| 9 | Alone of twentieth-century prime Ministers her name has been given to a political ‘ doctrine ’ and undoubted political style . |
| 10 | Please ensure that all money submitted , whether as cash or cheque , by hand or by post is accompanied by a clear statement as to what it represents e.g. Q.T. fees , payment for music lessons , subscriptions to the Society , donations etc. etc — because , one an amount has been credited to a certain account it can not be transferred to another . |
| 11 | Indeed , the six-metre long sauropod neck has been likened to a living crane for lifting the head to feed , with up to fifteen vertebrae possessing unique extra articulations in the neck to combine strength with agility . |
| 12 | In Cornwall and the Midland Valley of Scotland it has been upgraded to a new digital standard , developed with Bergen University , which permits telephone access to sensors in these areas from anywhere in the United Kingdom or overseas . |
| 13 | In our case I believe it has helped all three of us. has been exposed to a greater variety of people and situations which may have contributed to his easy-going nature . |
| 14 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 15 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the deregulation of bus services has shifted demand away from traditional large buses towards smaller ones , the demand for which has been met to a great extent by importers . |
| 17 | The stock market has been pushed to a new record high by yesterday 's budget . |
| 18 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |
| 19 | The Marchioness of Blandford has been moved to a private hospital as she continues to make a good recovery from a riding accident . |
| 20 | The latest production to have commenced shooting in Dublin is ‘ Into The West ’ , the story of a re-housed gypsy who refuses to be parted from his horse — despite the fact that he has been moved to a high rise block . |
| 21 | The clock has been timed to a consistent gain of less than half a minute per week during several months of sustained testing . |
| 22 | Since the interwar period , when quota sampling was first developed in the United States , it has been refined to a high art by commercial research organisations in many countries . |
| 23 | A Coalport collector 's plate has been presented to a historic Air Force squadron to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most daring air raids of all time . |
| 24 | The weir at Melrose Cauld on the Tweed has been rebuilt to a dangerous design and is no longer considered safe to shoot at any point . |
| 25 | The panel 's report , which has been submitted to a parliamentary committee , set out two lines of argument . |
| 26 | In cases where both men and women have been regularly exposed to it at work , nitrous oxide has been linked to a high rate of miscarriages . |
| 27 | Curtis Office Supplies , based on Risdale Street , has been introduced to a local supplier of tubular steel chair frames and is now placing orders with Profix Fabrication on Neasham Road . |
| 28 | Could I say Chairman , in Worcester and Shropshire are in agreement with this budget and er , which has been engineered to a great deal by the Chairman of the Budget and er , we 're here to , |
| 29 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 30 | However , computer control has been added to a significant number of reactors ( the first computers were installed in 1975 ) . |