Example sentences of "it have been [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’ |
| 2 | New data are added as they are acquired , as is information from old paper records when it has been converted to digital form . |
| 3 | It has been converted to municipal offices . |
| 4 | It is intended that 828 will be working on the main line as soon as possible and consequently it has been rebuilt to British Rail Main Line standards . |
| 5 | Recently new markets have been found in foreign factory ships , mainly from the USSR and Poland , which have bought much of the catch at sea , or it has been sold to French canneries which take it by road and the cross-Channel ferry from Plymouth . |
| 6 | Legislation has not only so multiplied that it is now the characteristic activity of the modern state , but it has been addressed to complicated matters which have increased the complexity and bulk of individual statutes so that they often go unread even by the legislators who pass them . |
| 7 | Indeed insider accounts have largely consisted of bland reminiscences in the style of ‘ my greatest arrests and cases ’ and it has been left to investigative journalism to redress some unacceptable police activity , by calling attention to the limits and abuses of police authority , power , and accountability . |
| 8 | The successful re-use of an existing iron structure depends on the quality of the original construction and whether it has been subjected to significant alterations . |
| 9 | But the histone H4 document has n't just been copied , it has been subjected to natural selection . |
| 10 | This was recognised by Sir Ernest Gowers in The Complete Plain Words : [ L ] egal draftsmen have to ensure to the best of their ability that what they say will be found to mean precisely what they intended , even after it has been subjected to detailed and possibly hostile scrutiny by acute legal minds … |
| 11 | Boy loved this letter not only because the man it had been sent to shared his new name , but because it was addressed by an older man to a lovelier , younger one . |
| 12 | This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action . |
| 13 | Starring Paul Nicholas , it 's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks . |