Example sentences of "that have been [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Casting and smithing in Nigeria reached a standard from the 10th century onwards that has been compared to the art of Benvenuto Cellini . |
| 2 | We all know , and indeed can see with our own eyes , the damage that has been done to the countryside in pursuit of production . |
| 3 | Slade LJ continued by pointing out that , although the breach of a positive covenant is not always capable of remedy : Nevertheless , I would , for my part , accept … submission that the breach of a positive covenant ( whether it be a continuing breach or a once and for all breach ) will ordinarily be capable of remedy … the concept of capability of remedy for the purpose of section 146 must surely be directed to the question whether the harm that has been done to the landlord by the relevant breach is for practicable purposes capable of being retrieved . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 5 | Is the Minister aware of the broad welcome that has been given to the development of such a service in various parts of the country ? |
| 6 | On the hon. Gentleman 's first point , if he implies any strictures at all , he should be aware of the amount of help that has been given to the police force since 1979 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They have a very strong smell that has been likened to a variety of disagreeable substances , from stale sweat to rotten onions . |
| 9 | Another kind of answer that has been offered to the dilemma is the following . |
| 10 | The whole area , a thicker , stronger basalt pavement , is funnel-shaped and the water pours back into the central hole that has been emptied to a depth of three or more metres . |
| 11 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
| 12 | Five or six stones had toppled from the pile and were lying half-buried in the snow , and some red and white cloth streamers that had been tied to a branch of the tree fluttered slightly in the breeze , torn and faded from the wind and rain . |
| 13 | It was connected with the Marshall Aid fund at the end of the war , er where the United States actually wanted evidence of the fact that funds that had been transferred to the U K Treasury , were being so to speak properly used by the Bank of England and that the Bank of England issued this er one million pound note as evidence that the funds were made available to the Bank of England by the Treasury . |
| 14 | The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban . |
| 15 | It was clear from the representations that had been made to the Chief Whip 's office that there were many on the back-benches who would oppose my succession ; there was no similar anti-Macmillan faction . |
| 16 | The Great Education Reform Bill that had been presented to the House of Commons seven months earlier with the soubriquet of ‘ GERBIL ’ had , like gerbils , grown . |
| 17 | The health boards in Scotland are very close to the hospitals , which is why I set considerable store by the approval that had been granted to the applications by the Grampian health board in the case of Foresterhill and by the Ayrshire and Arran health board in the case of South Ayrshire . |
| 18 | Present-day health officials would have been horrified as the 15,000 strong crowd fell upon the pieces that had been flung to the winds and ate them . |
| 19 | At each side is a loop or scroll handle that had been soldered to the convex sides . |
| 20 | Mr O'Donnell said McPherson had got a rope out of the car boot and that had been attached to a strap round his neck . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 22 | They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life , and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles , and they were all right as rain . |
| 23 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 24 | The Woolwich Equitable Building Society was entitled as of right to interest on the repayment of a capital sum that had been paid to the Inland Revenue pursuant to Regulations that were ultra vires and void . |
| 25 | The new government began investigating allegations of corruption under the previous regime and among many awkward questions raised was the fate of the 1000 million pesos ( £25 M ) that had been allocated to the atomic laboratory on Huemul Island . |
| 26 | The New College book was chosen because it was one that had been donated to the College , no less than a Wykeham Professor , with others from his library for the use of future generations of scholars . |
| 27 | The midwife showed me a note that had been pinned to the baby 's jacket under the shawl . |
| 28 | In Chiswick , provision was made for Boys to receive Secondary School education , in the extension that had been added to the Girls School in Burlington Lane , and the School became the Chiswick Grammar School . |
| 29 | The United States , Britain and France are preparing a strongly worded warning to Iraq to ground its aircraft and pull back anti-aircraft missile batteries that have been moved to the north , where allied patrol aircraft protect the Kurds . |
| 30 | There are a number ar , of areas in the ma state legislation that have been aligned to the church , or will affect the running of the church . |