Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently these questions have rarely been put to younger members of society . |
| 2 | Seismic confirmation has since been extended to other areas ( Cook et al. 1981 ; Iverson and Smithson 1983 ; Brown et al. 1983 ) . |
| 3 | In the National Health Service it was introduced in 1986 for General Managers and has since been extended to other levels of management . |
| 4 | The shadow fundholding scheme has since been extended to small practices and to a trial of fundholding for all services except accident and emergency . |
| 5 | The Birmingham School approach has since been applied to many different discourse types : for example , medical consultations ( Coulthard and Montgomery 1981b ) and TV quiz shows ( Berry 1981 ) . |
| 6 | At the IMF 's suggestion , the government was to consider introducing burley as a cash crop for small farmers ; production had hitherto been restricted to commercial estates . |
| 7 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 8 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 9 | BR will be divided into an infrastructure authority , called Railtrack , and a residuary body to run passenger services until these have all been franchised to private operators . |
| 10 | Rosalie Zobel , deputy director of the Esprit projects told EW + WW that Mips Computer Systems , Sun , Motorola , DEC and IBM have all been invited to preliminary OMI meetings . |
| 11 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |
| 12 | The high peaks , the glaciers , the lowland valleys , the paddy fields , the people , the culture and the colour have all been captured to equal perfection . |
| 13 | Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’ |
| 14 | Strangely enough , they consistently demand outrageous prices for things like basket-case Eko Rangers and Westone basses that have obviously been used to fell fair-sized pine trees , but they also have the laughably ignorant if highly convenient habit of pricing guitar amplifiers on the simple basis of how large they are . |
| 15 | Soil fauna studies in groups other than mites and insects have generally been restricted to systematic collection , identification , taxonomy , basic ecology , and estimations of biomass and energy flow ( Ryan , 1977 ; Block , 1977 ; Procter , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | Errors have generally been attributed to cognitive causes , evidence of the learner 's psychological process of rule formation . |
| 17 | Er it is it has got problems as has already been referred to earlier in that it has a very poor accident record as well as well as passing through Harrogate , it has a a poor accident record to the north of Harrogate . |
| 18 | The nuclear assets and liabilities of the former nationalized Scottish electricity boards had already been transferred to Scottish Nuclear which , as with the English nuclear power industry , remained wholly government-owned . |
| 19 | The cigarette companies used this to justify tobacco advertising : they have maintained that , to reduce average tar yields , new brands will have to be introduced ( despite the fact that substantial changes have already been made to existing brands by simply altering their yields ) and advertising will be needed to make the public aware of these new brands . |
| 20 | Reference has already been made to parliamentary questions as providing an opportunity for back-bench scrutiny of government actions . |
| 21 | Reference has already been made to three Conventions under which the requirement of connection to a Contracting State is satisfied where the rules of private international law lead to the application of a Contracting State . |
| 22 | Reference has already been made to some of these changes . |
| 23 | Reference has already been made to this and it has been emphasised that the requirement of a nominal monetary value is an arbitrary and illogical one which has been rejected in certain other common law jurisdictions . |
| 24 | Er much reference has already been made to this er golden corridor between Leeds a and York and I I really fail to see th that it is going to pose the the threat that some people think it will and and the analysis that we 've carried carried out has has thrown up two two figures , one in the region of twenty er a need of twenty to twenty five hectares in what describe as a northern centre based on on Tadcaster and I think we acknowledge that er we may struggle to achieve those twenty to twenty five hectares in and around Tadcaster , partly because of greenbelt constraint and and partly because of other constraints . |
| 25 | A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery . |
| 26 | Eva had already been promoted to major before the usual time . |
| 27 | The DNA technique has already been used to spectacular effect , even trapping a murderer . |
| 28 | Its philosophy is still developing , but it 's now a very concrete operation — £2 million has already been committed to 18 research projects in the UK , the Netherlands , Eire and the US , and we are still adding projects to the list . |
| 29 | Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors . |
| 30 | Attention has already been drawn to one of the objectives in establishing the Scottish Journal of Geology in 1965 , which was the rapid publication of results of research in Scottish geology carried out in universities , so that this may account in part for the halving of the average delay period after 1965 , but subsequent reductions must be due to other factors . |