Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the face of falling demand for its Intel Corp i860 RISC compilers , The Portland Group , Wilsonville , Oregon , has shut its European office in Reading , Berkshire , which had been run down to two employees . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 5 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 8 | Repeated attempts to salvage her had been made up to 1840 , CH 1 . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the reforms which had been implemented up to 1990 did not emerge from discussions between the communities concerned and the government but have been imposed from above . |
| 10 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 11 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bell Resources would not comment on whether the payment had been made or whether the BIG shares had been sold on to another party . |
| 14 | By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard . |
| 15 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 16 | His eyes shifted as if he had been lured on to dangerous ground . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Word had been put out to surrounding hospitals that all casualty admittances with leg injuries were to be reported . |
| 19 | There were supposed irregularities in the cheques , some of which had been endorsed over to third parties allegedly in breach of authority , so the administrators issued but did not serve a protective writ . |
| 20 | This would suggest that the dies , rather than the day or the finished vessels , had been transported up to 160 km . |