Example sentences of "it have been [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all broad formulations of principle , the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher had to be worked out in detail by later decisions , and it has been applied to a remarkable variety of things . |
| 2 | Since the interwar period , when quota sampling was first developed in the United States , it has been refined to a high art by commercial research organisations in many countries . |
| 3 | It has been exploited to a degree by all human beings to hurt and control each other , and has affected the lives of everyone that has ever lived . |
| 4 | For this reason , it has been referred to a ‘ the third lung ’ . |
| 5 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 6 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 7 | In Cornwall and the Midland Valley of Scotland it has been upgraded to a new digital standard , developed with Bergen University , which permits telephone access to sensors in these areas from anywhere in the United Kingdom or overseas . |
| 8 | Within Stoddards it has been renamed to a more focused ‘ Customers Demand Care ’ . |
| 9 | Add the sherry to the pan , and stir until it has been reduced to a glaze . |
| 10 | ‘ I am appalled , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ that when a company is trading £0.5m in the red , when it has failed to file its accounts , and when it has been reported to a DTI Minister , there is still no failsafe mechanism to pick the matter up . ’ |
| 11 | During the last century or so the Lane 's territory has been stolen by Station Road and Hopetown Lane , although in manner of compensation it has been up-graded to a road . |
| 12 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 13 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 14 | At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales . |
| 15 | However , it has been subjected to a most rigorous French testing and evaluation scheme since its formation in the 1960s and the emphasis is on fast growth rates , lean meat , a high proportion of meat to bone and ease of calving . |
| 16 | Because of , rather than despite its fame , it has been subjected to a prolonged critical attention ( Clinard 1964 ; Lemert 1967 ; Taylor , Walton , and Young 1973 ; Thio 1975 ) . |
| 17 | Before the general election the Welsh Affairs Select Committee began an investigation into this subject , but it has been brought to a halt by the failure , so far , to reform the committee . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it would not be the first inspector 's decision that took some time to see the light of day once it had been referred to a Department . |
| 19 | By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day . |
| 20 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 21 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 22 | It had been left to a nephew of Lucy Trigg 's , also a naval man , who put it in the hands of a London estate agent to sell for him whilst he was abroad . |
| 23 | The first property company had gone into liquidation and it had been sold to a second and then a third . |
| 24 | They all heard it , from their radios , from the echoing corridors , followed by a long burst from a Uzi that ended in a muffled slowing , as though it had been smothered to a halt . |