Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Par for this giant among seaside courses has been amended to 73 for the Amateur Championship , ‘ but today it 's more like 76 ’ declared club professional , Dai Stevenson . |
| 2 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 3 | An excavated example has been dated to 100 AD . |
| 4 | Another site , some distance from the main concentrations , where a major change has been dated to 350 — 60 is the villa at Great Casterton . |
| 5 | The company now hopes to transfer what has been developed to another vendor — Digital Equipment Corp sells the Y-MP EL , but has been less successful than Cray hoped . |
| 6 | The slope indicates a specific activity of 18,000 units/mg ; for comparison , the specific activity of purified M. Eco RII has been determined to 21,100 units/mg ( 24 ) . |
| 7 | A high flying professor of accountancy has been appointed to one of the top jobs at the Treasury with a salary of £100,000-a-year , the Prime Minister 's Office announced . |
| 8 | FORMER champion hurdler Beech Road has been cut to 12–1 for Saturday 's Mackeson Gold Cup even though there is an outside chance he could miss the race . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Richard Dunwoody , currently 16 winners ahead of reigning title holder Peter Scudamore , has been cut to 4–9 ( from 4–6 ) to land his first jockey 's championship . |
| 10 | This asymmetric style has been cut to different lengths y Paul Stafford of Zaks |
| 11 | The result means that Lillywhite 's advantage has been cut to 20 seconds by Simensen , now in second place , with today 's 86-mile stage from Liverpool to Salford and tomorrow 's city-centre circuit race at Manchester remaining . |
| 12 | The workforce of 8,000 before the revolution has been cut to 5,800 through early retirement and natural wastage ; even so , hundreds are on short-time , and sackings are inevitable . |
| 13 | Originally it had been planned to convert five oil/gas-fired power stations to coal but this programme has been cut to three . |
| 14 | The fringe on this smooth style has been cut to three different lengths . |
| 15 | This quantitative approach has been adopted to some extent by at least one local authority as the policy statement below illustrates : |
| 16 | Indeed , the characteristic response of both terrestrial and marine organisms to the pronounced climatic changes of the Pleistocene has been to migrate to ecological refuges , in effect to track their environment . |
| 17 | As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 18 | Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know . |
| 19 | It may be justified where : ( i ) the original factors leading to registration no longer apply ; ( ii ) the child and his family have moved to another area ( and responsibility for the case has been transferred to another authority ) ; ( iii ) the child has reached the age of 18 years or married ; or ( iv ) the child has died ( para 6.45 ) . |
| 20 | This attractive hypothesis has been extended to other groups of plants and their ‘ consumers ’ suggesting that under certain circumstances plants may benefit from those animals that feed on them and , indeed , may positively ‘ encourage ’ such herbivory . |
| 21 | The main Environment debate ( Wednesday ) has been extended to two hours . |
| 22 | Although this requirement was directly applicable only to federal agencies or projects requiring federal licences , in practice it has been extended to all major schemes of industrial expansion and new construction . |
| 23 | An invitation has been extended to all staff to take their families or clubs and organisations on Come & See tours of the power stations : details from tel ; at Peel Park or Training , Visits & welfare offices at the power stations . |
| 24 | An offer of thanks has been extended to those who helped to make the event a success . |
| 25 | The traditional 100-inch wheelbase has been extended to 108 inches , the extra length being donated to the rear seat passengers . |
| 26 | Most controversially of all , this argument has been extended to sado-masochistic sexuality which , far from ratifying the ‘ real ’ violence of society , theatricalizes and demystifies it . |
| 27 | The ten-day deadline for Customs replies to VAT enquiries set out in the VAT Charter Standard has been extended to 30 working days for more complicated issues . |
| 28 | The sound has been increased to such a volume that , as I turn my head as if from a physical blow , I notice rows of heads with their eyes staring wildly and hair blown back as in a fierce gale . |
| 29 | The size of the basic Umwelt ( environment ) model has been increased to 1.9 litres , which has put up power output from 60 to 75 bhp . |
| 30 | Another aspect of this change is the erm the change in line fifty eight , where the business and saving in the current year carried forward has been increased to seven , nine , one , from five , nine , one , you can see in the report and you will see that |