Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |
| 2 | The Cabinet , appointed by the President , has hitherto been subordinate to the UNIP central committee . |
| 3 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 4 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 5 | It would be churlish to suggest Lewis fights under a flag of convenience or that his status as world champion has only been able to be enjoyed by default . |
| 6 | Known as the Cabinet War Rooms , the complex has only been open to the public since 1983 . |
| 7 | The function of the Petit Meslier has thus been similar to that of the Petit Verdot in Bordeaux . |
| 8 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 9 | I should say at this point that I have no reason to think my man has ever been unfaithful to me . |
| 10 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 11 | But Buckingham has always been close to her heart : she officially opened the university sixteen years ago and smiles upon its system of accelerated degrees and open access . |
| 12 | The whole idea has always been abhorrent to us , and we were rid of it 14 years ago in 1977 , when we voted to secede from South Africa and re-assist control over our own affairs . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , we were unable to contribute to a resolution of these problems without moving away from the non-participant minority shareholding which has always been central to our involvement in Bank of Edinburgh . ’ |
| 14 | The survival of the historical record has always been subject to natural and man-made forces . |
| 15 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 16 | To gauge the full significance of recent innovations in the international financial system , recall that in all market economies , it has always been possible to ‘ buy ’ money , like any other commodity . |
| 17 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 18 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
| 19 | The Don has always been kind to me and my opportunity for revenge came sooner , rather than later . |
| 20 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 21 | The University Art Gallery in the Portland Building has always been open to the public , but it was necessary to know one 's way around the campus to take advantage of this . |
| 22 | Economics has usually been subordinate to politics , and politics have generally been dominated by localism and authoritarianism , the latter being reflected in a view that ‘ big ’ government was best . |
| 23 | Owner-occupancy has probably been subject to less direct legislative activity than have the two other main tenures . |
| 24 | The notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |
| 25 | In part it has also been due to a lack of suitable models of how the combination of attributes could take place . |
| 26 | A particular case of course is in relation to Bosnia Hercegovina , erm Russia has traditionally been close to the Serbs erm and therefore is worried , not only about the situation within erm the old Yugoslavia itself , Bosnia Hercegovina , but also about the reaction erm within Russia if it is seen to take too anti a Serb line erm in the , in the crisis that 's being faced there . |
| 27 | The coalition includes members of the Social Democratic Party , which has traditionally been opposed to the nuclear option . |
| 28 | Ownership has sometimes been transferred into local hands ( private or state ) while the original owners have continued as managers on a financial basis which has frequently been unrelated to their performance . |
| 29 | Indeed Trible 's work has precisely been useful to women of conservative disposition who , accepting the text 's authority , need to interpret it as best they may . |
| 30 | This fall in operative trainees has primarily been due to the reduced demand following the recession in construction activity since the property collapse of 1973 . |