Example sentences of "been [verb] to a [adj] [noun] " 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 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 3 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 4 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The emotions have been likened to a musical instrument and it is a man 's task to play upon its uttermost strings . |
| 7 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 8 | Mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the U K is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of U N er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant . |
| 9 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 10 | Tumour ‘ promoters ’ are substances such as the phorbolesters that are n't carcinogenic by themselves but encourage the growth of malignant tumours in cells that have previously been exposed to a low dose of a true carcinogen ( known as an initiator ) . |
| 11 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 12 | He had been attracted to a young lady who lived with her mother ; he called on them constantly , smiling all the time , but never saying what he was after ; with the inevitable result that the damsel got tired of her tortoise " , and gave her hand to a brisker suitor . |
| 13 | Replacements have been confined to a new head gasket around 3,000 hours and one each of pto and main clutches . |
| 14 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 15 | As anyone who has ever been confined to a closed institution will know , meals are events : they are the landmarks in each repetitive day , often providing the only elements of novelty or surprise in an otherwise predictable routine . |
| 16 | The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , computer control has been added to a significant number of reactors ( the first computers were installed in 1975 ) . |
| 19 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 22 | Bristol 's ambitious plans have been presented to a wideranging audience : the leaders of many of the largest companies in this country , including , for example , BT , Sainsbury 's , IBM and Hewlett Packard , Booker and United Biscuits , Smith Kline Beecham and ICI ; the Directors of the major charitable trusts , such as the Wellcome Foundation , the Leverhulme Trust , CRC and Action Research , and the Rayne and Nuffield Foundations ; Government and learned institutions including the Royal Society , the Advisory Board for the Research Councils , MRC and MAFF ; and the press and media such as The Economist , The Director and Nature , together with leading journalists ( not least Bristol graduates Sue Lawley , Rosemary Hartill and Liz Howells ) . |
| 23 | Since the target 's code has not yet been transferred to a lexical output system , there will no longer be any representation of the target anywhere . |
| 24 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 25 | New houses are to be built on the site of the former Cameron maternity hospital and its facilities have been transferred to a new unit at the town 's general hospital . |
| 26 | Originally managed by a government department , the state-owned forests had been transferred to a public corporation in 1987 as an initial stage of the privatization programme . |
| 27 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Again , explain what 's been said to a close friend and keep reminding yourself that in God 's eyes you are a successful , important and useful person . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |