Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention has quite justifiably been drawn to the fact that we have not had anything in the way of a Teachers ' Forum for some years . |
| 2 | An additional £74,000 has since been transferred to the Trust , making a magnificent total of over £380,000 generated by the affinity scheme in only six months . |
| 3 | He was within 18 months of retirement and has since been elected to the UK Central Council for Nursing , the profession 's regulatory body . |
| 4 | A wide variety of other commercial and industrial organisations has since been attracted to the country , not least because of its central location and excellent transport links with the rest of the country . |
| 5 | The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 . |
| 6 | The last of the modern illuminated cars is a frigate , based originally on H.M.S. Blackpool , which has since been sold to the New Zealand navy ! |
| 7 | Vasari recorded it in situ in his biography of Cosimo Roselli , but the work has since been attributed to the Master of the Fiesole ‘ Epiphany ’ , a follower of Domenico Ghirlandaio . |
| 8 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 9 | Research attention has also perhaps been focused to an undue degree on the adoption of physical conservation measures ( eg roof insulation ) and on the costs of a broad set of household behaviours ( eg opening windows while heating ) . |
| 10 | Insufficient attention has hitherto been given to the role that can be played by scholarly publication in influencing harmonization . |
| 11 | I wanted to improve the world , to deliver into man 's hands some of those powers which had hitherto been ascribed to a snivelling and fictitious God ! |
| 12 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 13 | The correction for inflation has only been applied to the final sum . |
| 14 | For some reason Papa 's permission , which had stubbornly been denied to the lawyer 's requests all these months , had lately been given . |
| 15 | The powerful multiplicity of sexuality has for too long been reduced to the level of the coarse car sticker , the symbol of two feet pointing upwards and two feet pointing downwards . |
| 16 | They have long been committed to the idea of such a conference for dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict ; they are now committed to the idea of such a conference for negotiating a Gulf peace ; there is no obvious way to keep the two ideas apart . |
| 17 | It claimed that ‘ The pooling of coal and steel production will immediately provide for the establishment of common bases for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe , and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the munitions of war , of which they have been the most constant victims ’ . |
| 18 | Guinness has long been exported to the Caribbean and Latin America and is now supplied through licensed and contract brewing agreements and some direct exports . |
| 19 | THE news that Peter Cranmer after having long been confined to a wheelchair , has had both legs amputated in Brighton General Hospital will sadden all who recall with admiration that famous sporting figure of the 1930s . |
| 20 | The tilt problems so far have all been traced to the electric control systems . |
| 21 | The bacon and the cheese had all been transferred to the room-sized storage refrigerator behind the shop , and while her husband was out of the way Rennie Hamilton loaded all the groceries into the canvas bag and did a quick addition on the list and noted the amount on the end of the growing column in the credit book . |
| 22 | An official statement said that the functions of the departments of public works , labour and employment , local government , environment and natural resources , tourism , science and technology and social services had all been transferred to the Autonomous Regional Government . |
| 23 | The Cathedrals of Paris , Laon , Reims , Amiens , Chartres have all been likened to the Parthenon in Athens in that they , collectively and individually , present the greatest contribution to the architecture of their time — Gothic — and became prototypes for churches all over Europe . |
| 24 | We have all been invited to the festivities at his palace of Fontainebleau . ’ |
| 25 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 26 | The comfortable bedrooms have all been decorated to the highest standards , and all have a telephone and radio ; most also have a television and minibar , and some are air-conditioned . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been financially solvent for the last five years , and the surplus has all been allocated to the new production of The Count of Luxembourg . |
| 28 | Anne and Sarah , Terry and Stephen had all been promoted to the ballroom and Anne said to Sarah , ‘ I 'm trying to persuade our Joe to come . |
| 29 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 30 | Although due emphasis has rightly been given to the quality of the care , the first priority is the provision of sufficient places in residential establishments . |