Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Euroqualifications from LCCIEB have been developed specifically to meet the needs of those doing business in the European Community after 1992 and to help to promote mobility of labour in the internal market . |
2 | Group resources have made the innovation possible because polymers have been developed specifically to meet the requirements of the chemists developing the formulations . |
3 | The bodkin trick should have been completed beforehand to make the sleeve ready . |
4 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
5 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
6 | In South Africa under apartheid , education has been designed specifically to socialize the mass of the population into accepting an inferiority based on race and class . |
7 | One pregnancy in five now ends in abortion , only a tiny fraction of 1% have ever been carried out to save the life of the mother . |
8 | The equivalence principle is so central to the development of GR that very refined tests have been carried out to check the equality of m g /m i for different materials . |
9 | Both groups are calling for a halt to the planning application until a full hydrological survey has been carried out to check the pond would be safe . |
10 | Proposed restrictions on emissions of nitrogen oxides ( Nox ) from power stations have been watered down to meet the concerns of the newly-privatized electricity generating companies , claim environmentalists . |
11 | Since 1977 a case law has been built up to define the limits of the availability of this remedy , which proved very popular . |
12 | Also these towns have large areas of old nineteenth century houses which had been built cheaply to house the workers near the mills and mines . |
13 | Mr. Downham also presented the financial account , saying that it had been decided not to increase the parish council 's share from the community charge , by more than five percent . |
14 | Analysis of the cause of these problems indicates that solutions lie in changes in human organization and so no attempts have been made yet to automate the allocation of rooms to classes . |
15 | Many attempts have been made simply to control the starfish . |
16 | In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it . |
17 | It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made . |
18 | One element has caused a great deal of discussion — the two days allowed for an applicant who has been turned down to notify the adjudicator of his wish to appeal and to present the kernel of his or her case . |
19 | Mr Ian Heaviside , the Royal Mail election coordinator for Darlington district , said every postmen had now been instructed not to fold the leaflets . |
20 | Victoria was banned from the riverside and Gertie had been instructed never to take the baby anywhere near the water . |
21 | Livesey , who replaces Mike Hamlin of Gloucester , has been drafted in to give the West Countrymen greater control at half-back after their 21-9 defeat by the North in Bristol last Saturday . |
22 | A heavy police presence , including mounted policemen , had been drafted in to control the protesters , members of the National and Local Government Officers ' Association . |
23 | Eighty two staff at the Sainsbury 's supermarket on Tewkesbury Road in Cheltenham have contracted what 's thought to be a virus infection that causes fever , aches and vomiting.They 've all been sent home , and staff from other stores have been drafted in to keep the supermarket open.Tests are being carried out at the public health laboratory in the town to identify the illness.But Cheltenham 's Assistant Chief Environmental health officer says shoppers at the store should n't be worried about the outbreak : |
24 | The army has been drafted in to cover the staffing crisis . |
25 | The watchman had been schooled in security and he had been told not to open the door under any circumstances . |
26 | Well , in theory he was doing what he was supposed to do since this was the time of day he always spent with Katrine and he had been told not to vary the routine . |
27 | The Rios RISC has been cleaned up to create the PowerPC , focusing on just what 's important for the desktop market . |
28 | A company spokesman would not say what measures had been drawn up to keep the port running normally . |
29 | But the charities say plans have not even been drawn up to develop the homes and that housing associations have refused to start work on projects until they are promised funding for running costs . |
30 | So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery . |