Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that the doctrine of fundamental breach , as a rule of law , has finally been laid to rest by Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , and it would now appear that fundamental breach is relevant only as a factor to be considered in the construction of the contract . |
| 2 | From the records of the Crown Court , Bradford , comes news that Mr D BOWIE has finally been brought to book for his current misdemeanours . |
| 3 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |
| 4 | The show has already been sold to Sky Television , a couple of cable networks and a European Satellite channel . |
| 5 | Whereas the support the farmers received right , has always been coupled to production , so the more they produce , the more support they get , the higher , the higher their incomes . |
| 6 | Civil mobile systems are at an early stage of development but a low power band has been proposed , centred on 3.455GHz , and consideration has also been given to operation of future land mobile systems around 3.4GHz . |
| 7 | This woman works at a Garrimpo and has also been exposed to mercury vapour . |
| 8 | Clegg 's explanatory approach , relating differences in trade union behaviour to variations in the dimensions of collective bargaining , is penetrating and wide-ranging in its integrating of contemporary international evidence and historical determinants , but it has also been subjected to criticism . |
| 9 | The land has also been laid to lawn . |
| 10 | It is , in fact , so easy a target that scholars reacting against it have constructed a revised view that has also been driven to excess . |
| 11 | In the case of hominids , this has traditionally been attributed to selection for hunting efficiency in the Pliocene . |
| 12 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 13 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |
| 14 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine said yesterday : ‘ Considerably more than £1bn has now been committed to City Challenge . ’ |
| 15 | In their defence , however , it has to be admitted that the drafting of contracts has not always been perfect , particularly in the simpler forms , where clarity has sometimes been sacrificed to brevity . |
| 16 | Toxic algae has previously been confined to lowland shallow lakes surrounded either by an increasing population or intensively farmed land . |
| 17 | No culprit has yet been brought to justice . |
| 18 | If no data has actually been written to disk in the meantime , further speed increases are gained . |
| 19 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 20 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 21 | BARRY BAGGE from Hygiene London East has recently been promoted to supervisor . |
| 22 | This date may be changed as Marion 's father died two days before Christmas and Chris 's father has recently been admitted to hospital in Greenwich . |
| 23 | The potential use of databases for data analysis , and spreadsheets for the production of graphic output of numerical data , has recently been introduced to Laboratory staff , and should be built on . |
| 24 | In Britain much of the area has been glaciated and even the unglaciated part has certainly been subjected to tundra conditions and solifluxion ( see Chapter 15 ) during the Pleistocene . |
| 25 | The SDI engine has never been fitted to production Range Rovers , but an improved RR engine including some features found in the SDI engine was fitted in 1981 . |
| 26 | But whatever the origins the fairy folk warning has never been left to chance and the ‘ Luck ’ still exists ; it is either locked away in a strong room on the premises or according to some accounts stored safely in the custody of the Bank of England . |
| 27 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 28 | ‘ Had the centre not been there to keep an eye on me , I would have probably been admitted to hospital the previous week and kept in . ’ |
| 29 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 30 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |