Example sentences of "been [verb] to [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capacity of the stadium has been limited to 17,000 with Dublin being allocated 10,000 , 5,000 to Wexford and the remainder set aside for neutrals . |
| 2 | All age determinations have been normalized to -25 in accordance with international convention . |
| 3 | The plot boundaries defining the crofts on which these houses stood also changed , although the early impression of great change and lack of order has now been revised to one of combination and division of consistent units . |
| 4 | This has now been modified to that of SARFU representative , whatever that means . |
| 5 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 6 | Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth . |
| 7 | At twenty , he still wants to become a muleteer , though by now the Spanish location has been narrowed to that of Andalusia . |
| 8 | Has singular habit of descending into wells to drink when arrival and departure have been compared to those of wasps at a hole nest . |
| 9 | A RUSTY old gasometer which fed-up local residents want demolished because ‘ it 's a blot on the landscape ’ has been compared to some of Italy 's most beautiful buildings . |
| 10 | Most of that land had been allocated to those with forest grazing rights , whose method of running stock would be affected by the enclosures . |
| 11 | Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade . |
| 12 | FORMER champion hurdler Beech Road has been cut to 12–1 for Saturday 's Mackeson Gold Cup even though there is an outside chance he could miss the race . |
| 13 | It was 1968 and the Crystal Palace track had been converted to Tartan in readiness for the Mexico City Olympic Games which were to be held on synthetic surfacing for the first time . |
| 14 | The original Thai timetable of 10 years had been extended to 15 in response to the cautious reaction of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 15 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 16 | The line has been changed to one of 2lb b.s. , and on this I have pinched 3BB shot midway and a number 4 shot nine inches from the hook . |