Example sentences of "been [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 2 | Some designs have been traced to illustrations in Miller 's Figures , although they had to be adapted to fit the curved surfaces of porcelain pieces . |
| 3 | For practical reasons , therefore , damages have been limited to disgorgement of profits . |
| 4 | One is the open cluster M11 , nicknamed the ‘ Wild Duck ’ because telescopically it has been likened to ducks in flight , and certainly it is fan-shaped ; it contains several hundreds of stars . |
| 5 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 6 | A GUARDED pledge of improved service has been given to patients throughout South Durham . |
| 7 | Several groups of Communes are in the LFA Zone de Montagne ; in the Rochefort-Montagne Commune of Puy-de-Dome much encouragement has been given to remembrement by M. Giscard d'Estaing who resides in the area and is in favour of ‘ progressive ’ agriculture . |
| 8 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |
| 9 | We have been referred to Hunter v. Walters ( 1871 ) L.R. 7 Ch.App. 75 ; National Provincial Bank of England v. Jackson ( 1886 ) 33 Ch.D. 1 ; King v. Smith [ 1900 ] 2 Ch. 425 and Gallie v. Lee [ 1971 ] A.C. 1004 . |
| 10 | A total of 38 rebels were reported to have been extradited to Vietnam on Jan. 14 , 1990 , and were given prison sentences ranging from six to 15 years . |
| 11 | If you are concerned that you might have been exposed to sources of infection , especially if you have been unwell for some time , you can discuss your concerns with your family doctor or antenatal clinic . |
| 12 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |
| 13 | K. With the growth of trade and work in factories , more and more people have been attracted to cities like Bristol which now has a population of 388 000 . |
| 14 | So far this has been confined to states with lifetimes longer than about one millisecond ( ’ isomeric ’ states ) but experiments are under way to study excited slates in nuclei with lifetimes as short as microseconds . |
| 15 | Player-manager Roy McDonough , who has been confined to bed with flu for the past couple of days , is happy with the likes of Robert Hopkins , Steve McGavin , Gary Bennett , Paul Abrahams and himself from which to choose as the U's bid to launch a late bid for the end of season play-off phase . |
| 16 | The difficulties of co-ordinating the work of counties and districts , or regions and districts , has not been confined to questions of status relating to the former county boroughs . |
| 17 | In Essex , the District would have been confined to provision in Colchester , Chelmsford , Clacton , Halstead , Braintree and Maldon . |
| 18 | In the forty-odd experimental studies that have been reported to date on periods of sleep loss longer than two days , hallucinations have been uncommon , tending to affect individuals in solitary vigils , rather than those in groups . |
| 19 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 20 | We have always been committed to programmes of investigation … and we always will be in the future . |
| 21 | Of even greater interest was the flat statement that the BKA , working with German intelligence , had established that the bomb had been carried to Frankfurt from Damascus via Cyprus . |
| 22 | Swimmers in distress have been carried to safety on dolphins ' backs . |
| 23 | About seven more years had been added to expectation of life up to 1901 , after which the pace accelerated sharply . |
| 24 | In a ‘ desperate struggle in a drunken crowd ’ a police officer had been stabbed to death in Wilmer Gardens , Hoxton , said to be ‘ a low neighbourhood infested by a very dangerous class ’ . |
| 25 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 26 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 27 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 28 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 29 | Of the stars in the Square , the brightest is Alpheratz ( 2.1 ) , which used to be known as Delta Pegasi , but has now been transferred to Andromeda as Alpha Andromedæ . |
| 30 | Mr Deacon , whose condition was said to be stable , had been transferred to Middlesbrough from Bishop Auckland General . |