Example sentences of "has been [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wins , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 2 | If confirmed , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 3 | At least one RAFALO has been elected to an Area Council . |
| 4 | A thermal imaging camera , which can find and follow suspects even at night , has been fitted to a police helicopter . |
| 5 | In this case , it has been fitted to an HMV Gramophone ; it controls the rotational speed of the disc so it runs slowly when the soundbox is at the outside edge , and allows the record to speed up towards the inner radius . |
| 6 | Mr Kilfoyle has been invited to a conference on the area 's health services next month . |
| 7 | Hailed as Britain 's most successful industrial investment and one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects , the Sellafield plant has been built to a deadline set six years ago . |
| 8 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 9 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 10 | One finds direct contradictions such as Lewis 's ( 1931 ) observation that an 8 km/h ( 5 mile/h ) current off Hurst Castle Spit was ineffective in moving the lightest shell debris except when combined with wave action and Russell and Macmillan 's ( 1952 ) belief that shingle has been scoured to a depth of nearly 60 m ( 200 ft ) by this same current . |
| 11 | The concentration of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the site effluent has been cut to an average of two parts per million from 22 in December 1988 . |
| 12 | As a result , Lewis 's manager Frank Maloney has been called to a meeting in New York this week with promoter Dan Duva and Bowe 's outspoken manager Rock Newman . |
| 13 | This one has been sounded to a depth of a mere 1,000 feet , but peer into it is as far as I would ever want to go ; such crevices are no doubt thrilling to explore when they widen out into great chambers , but the thought of the narrow places I for one find exceedingly off-putting . |
| 14 | But I do n't think reference has been made to a document that is referred to in P P G one , namely the doc the white paper , This Common Inheritance , er D O E document , and in that there 's a clear indication that this question of a new settlement erm should be considered , paragraph six point four eight reads , however well urban land is used , there will continue to be a need for building on greenfield sites , it is important that new housing on such sites is carefully placed to preserve the open countryside , and respects the quality of the landscape . |
| 15 | Frequent reference has been made to a vote being taken and for a majority of meetings this will be by a show of hands for and against the motion , the Hon. |
| 16 | A WARNING letter has been sent to a dairy by Montgomeryshire 's director of environmental health after a slug was found in a bottle of milk . |
| 17 | The jury in the trial of two men accused of murdering a police informer has been sent to a hotel for the night , after failing to reach a verdict . |
| 18 | The jury in the trial of a florist accused of drug smuggling has been sent to a hotel overnight . |
| 19 | The jury in the trial of two men accused of shooting dead a car dealer and dismembering his body has been sent to a hotel for the night , after failing to reach a verdict . |
| 20 | The jury in the Severn Bridge gantry trial has been sent to a hotel for the night after a whole day trying to reach a verdict . |
| 21 | An eleven year old boy who 's committed a string of motoring offences has been sent to a children 's centre two hundred miles from his home , because he keeps absconding . |
| 22 | The report , which was subsequently sent out to subscribers , has been compared to an auctioneer 's catalogue , and dismissed as uninformative and useless . |
| 23 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 24 | But TODAY can reveal the contract for signals controlling the track to London 's Docklands has been given to a firm called Alcatel , which has manufacturing bases in Germany and Canada . |
| 25 | It is the first time that the Stylesetter Award has been given to an Axminster carpet range . |
| 26 | Traditionally , the people 's singing has been delegated to a choir which is generally paid a nominal fee . |
| 27 | B.P. has been likened to a honeycomb where groups worked as if in sealed-off cells . |
| 28 | They have a very strong smell that has been likened to a variety of disagreeable substances , from stale sweat to rotten onions . |
| 29 | While the American federal system has been likened to a marble cake , the British political system can be likened to a patchwork quilt . |
| 30 | The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organisation ( HMO ) , with the difference that the health authority is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership . |