Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign investors have been queueing up to buy them . |
| 2 | The huge black doors of the boat-house had been fastened back to allow free access . |
| 3 | Jehan knew that many of the Khans had been won over to support of Artai principally by the knowledge that the probable alternative was civil war , and he shook his head angrily . |
| 4 | Over three hundred sites have been picked out to show works by painters , sculptors and carvers and some orginal ideas have been seen . |
| 5 | My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist . |
| 6 | Clements Farm is of great antiquity , the building itself probably dates back to the 15th century , and happily has been boarded up to prevent more deterioration . |
| 7 | Has an exercise been carried out to assess the required nursing establishment for the whole of the service provided by the health authority ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 10 | A number of investigations have been carried out to explore ways to best use the probabilistic analyser : |
| 11 | A large number of experiments have also been carried out to investigate laterality effects in tachistoscopic perception of non-verbal stimuli . |
| 12 | Although this idea of hemispheric competition is not very precise , a number of studies have been carried out to investigate speech lateralisation among stutterers . |
| 13 | A number of tests have been carried out to find out if these chemicals have a similar effect on us . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My monthly insurance payment worked out at £18.20 , but I could n't qualify for the Denplan scheme until the necessary work had been carried out to make my mouth dentally fit . |
| 17 | Revisions have also been carried out to make modules more suitable for use by both light and heavy vehicle mechanics . |
| 18 | The committee chairman , Professor John Knill , said that the full range of environmental impact assessments had not been carried out to establish whether BNFL 's proposed policy of " radioactive substitution " at Thorp — storing low- and medium-level waste permanently for foreign customers while sending back a " radiological equivalent " of high-level waste to reduce transport costs — would be environmentally neutral . |
| 19 | The improvement scheme has been carried out to meet new health and safety requirements . |
| 20 | Further experiments have been carried out to discover what kinds of sounds a bird will learn to sing . |
| 21 | Various experiments have been carried out to discover the more detailed dynamics of these processes . |
| 22 | This work had been carried out to remove what the Comptroller 's hearing officer accepted were ‘ major technical obstacles [ which ] stood in the way of the deployment of the rotary valve . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Since 1977 a case law has been built up to define the limits of the availability of this remedy , which proved very popular . |
| 25 | Starting with Aristotle , elaborate classification systems have been built up to show that things may belong to the same class ( and therefore have common features ) even if their appearance is different . |
| 26 | Since then the sea defences have been built up to ensure that such a disaster will not strike again . |
| 27 | The gallery , which has been built in to become a small room , faces the gate as you enter under the arch . |
| 28 | However , horses have a large range of emotions and , from a biological and evolutionary point of view , they have been built in to help horses survive as individuals and as a species . |
| 29 | The litter on the kitchen table had been pushed back to leave a clear corner on which a cloth , clean but creased , had been laid , and on it were two unmatching plates and two cups which bore no relation in design or size , to their saucers . |
| 30 | ‘ It also happens in public schools , where new arrivals are considered ordinary weaklings until they 've been pushed out to survive some sort of ordeal so they can re-enter the group with a new identity . ’ |