Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless . |
| 2 | He had been given a lift to the Bayswater Road by a mutual friend , Derek O'Connor . |
| 3 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 4 | The European Court of justice has been given the power to fine member states for having failed to comply with a Court judgment . |
| 5 | You 've been given an invitation to the most magnificent show in the world . |
| 6 | ( 12 August 1773 ) Later , having been given an extension to his leave by Colloredo , who was himself in Vienna in August , he again wrote : |
| 7 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |
| 8 | Since ancient times , the rowan tree has been considered a scourge to witches . |
| 9 | The real difficulty has always been to find an alternative to the Hegelian dialectic — difficult because strictly speaking it is impossible , insofar as the operation of the dialectic already includes its negation . |
| 10 | Since the intention of this chapter has been to provide an introduction to global tectonics and the major elements of the Earth 's morphology and structure , the suggested reading is mainly limited to texts which will be useful in providing more details on these topics . |
| 11 | It is clear that throughout the second half of 1184 Henry Ii had been seeking a solution to the problem of the succession . |
| 12 | House broker Smith New Court is said to have been promoting the stock to its clients . |
| 13 | The team that swept all before them in Amiens to bring home European silverware have been handed a trip to Cork where they will take on Ashton for a place in the Irish Cup first round proper . |
| 14 | RANGERS have been handed the key to success in the European Cup . |
| 15 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 16 | We have so far been considering the extent to which the intentional ingredient in natural language distinguishes it from other systems of animal communication . |
| 17 | The crew has been expecting a return to the Gulf . |
| 18 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 19 | She knew Sarah had been expecting the place to be unfit to live in and was pleased to see her eyes widen in surprise . |
| 20 | While Charles had been summoning the clans to Glenfillan Sir John Cope , 100 miles [ 160 km ] away , as the crow flew , in Edinburgh — though far further even by Wade 's splendid new roads — had been making his counter-preparations . |
| 21 | The council , which has been leasing the buildings to the college , now wants them back . |
| 22 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 23 | She had been letting the house to my father and mother , but they had now died also , and the whole property was to be sold : the house , yard , outbuildings , flower garden , kitchen garden , and a small meadow . |
| 24 | John Akast , an assistant recorder from the same East Anglian chambers and based in Ipswich , has been appointed a Recorder to the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 25 | She 's been counting the days to the end of the course in the hope that it 'll be a case of out of sight , out of mind . |
| 26 | A key theme of policy in recent years has been to maximise the extent to which other agencies than government itself can be held responsible for inadequacies in public sector services . |
| 27 | He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat . |
| 28 | I had been studying a guide-book to Zamora before we left . |
| 29 | There was a large framed certificate on the wall , inscribed with his name ; he had been awarded a scholarship to the Imperial College to learn wood-carving , being artistically inclined . |
| 30 | Glenlight Shipping , the company which operates puffers all-over the west coast has been awarded an extension to its tarriff reduction subsidy . |