Example sentences of "they have be [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 2 | When they 've been promoted to a high ranking job . |
| 3 | Maybe just some Iranian hotheads getting upset because they think they 've been subjected to a con trick by the arms dealers . |
| 4 | The appellant claimed that they had been sent to the wrong office . |
| 5 | They had been sent to the group as part of a fur " amnesty " sponsored by them . |
| 6 | He made his recordings in 1904 and died a year later ; by 1925 they had been moved to the ‘ Historic Catalogue ’ . |
| 7 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 8 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 9 | Children described to the interviewers how they had been referred to the library to find information on Inuits and Eskimos in basic studies , Scott of the Antarctic in history , and Alexander Fleming in science , while one child described how : In RE sometimes Miss asks us to go and find out ( like ) some information and also in literacy ( like ) there are some people who write letters backwards and Miss asks us to go back and see if we could find any . |
| 10 | Following a meeting with Collor on Aug. 26 , the 27 state governors acknowledged the need for amendments but refused to endorse the changes as proposed until they had been subjected to a wider debate . |
| 11 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 12 | Doris , the girl who worked next to Anne , had been killed and her parents injured after they had been taken to a rest centre from their bombed house . |
| 13 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |
| 14 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 15 | Danzigers felt with some justification that they had been left to the mercy of the Polish military and were now chained to what Molotov called the monstrous bastard of Versailles — the backward Polish state and economy . |
| 16 | They had been submitted to the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) for endorsement . |
| 17 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 18 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Second , it is possible to derive a single overall measure of test performance from all the subtest scores , once they have been converted to a common scale of measurement . |
| 20 | In Oxford , particular care has been taken to try to identify all cases of self-injury coming to the general hospital , irrespective of whether they have been referred to the hospital psychiatric service . |
| 21 | ‘ They have been forwarded to the main contractors for analysis , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 22 | ‘ They have been forwarded to the main contractors for analysis , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 23 | ‘ They have been attracted to the box paradox . |
| 24 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 25 | Some of these recipes contain , fat , sugar or flour — often forbidden in other diets — but they have been reduced to a minimum to provide tasty food that 's also low in calories . |
| 26 | Where it is evident that the directors have ‘ knowledge and experience ’ in the area of business , on the other hand , they have been held to a standard demanding no more than ordinary prudence . |
| 27 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |
| 28 | ‘ It would seem odd that facilities so much sought after by the community and approved by their legislators should be actionable at common law because they have been brought to the places where they are required and have escaped without negligence by an unforeseen series of mishaps . ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes small bungalows have been built in the grounds of residential homes , in other developments they have been linked to a warden 's bungalow by means of alarm bells . |
| 30 | Although the women prisoners have not been subjected to the brutal beatings and searches which have taken place in the men 's prisons , they have been taken to the National Police headquarters for interrogation under torture . |