Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career . |
| 2 | Their contents had mostly been removed to Germany . |
| 3 | Many of their descendants have since been presented to zoos around the world . |
| 4 | She developed courses on child abuse for senior police officers , and distributed a list of ‘ satanic indicators ’ , or signs and symptoms to look out for , which have since been circulated to police forces and social workers across the country . |
| 5 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 6 | Although the art treasures had long since been taken to Moscow , many of the palaces were in ruins after the fearful fighting between the Russians and the Germans . |
| 7 | Three jets recently handled include Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN685 from the British Aerospace Apprentice School at Hawarden , which was moved to the Midland Air Museum , Coventry , and a pair of Folland Gnats T.1s , XP511 and XS109 , which were moved from RAF Halton initially into a storage area at Portsmouth , and have since been exported to Seattle in the USA . |
| 8 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 9 | He had convened a pan-African conference in Kumasi in 1953 but that had necessarily been limited to consultation . |
| 10 | As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings . |
| 11 | According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] . |
| 12 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 13 | Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death . |
| 14 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 15 | Down below the functioning factory levels , however , ancient levels of the hive had long been abandoned to dereliction . |
| 16 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 17 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |
| 19 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 20 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |
| 21 | The subjects in Mattila 's study had all been admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction . |
| 22 | He was out of breath , had obviously been dispatched to Heathrow in a hurry in case Adam turned up there . |
| 23 | In essence the principles of pastoral care for children have not been extended to adults . |
| 24 | He welcomed the fact that VAT had not been extended to food and that there would be no increase in employers ' National Insurance contributions . |
| 25 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 26 | After pressure from Chatichai , however , the Prince announced on April 24 that he would attend the meeting , but warned that it could achieve nothing of value because the invitation had not been extended to representatives of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 27 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 28 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |
| 29 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 30 | He has eliminated a whole ‘ study section ’ , which included works after , and attributed to , Ribera ; there are no prints , and a number of paintings , which in Naples were hung as autograph , have not been invited to Spain . |