Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system . |
| 2 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 3 | Ma was twisting a handkerchief in her hands , and her nose was as red as the apples Anna had been forbidden to pick in the garden because they were to be kept till Christmas . |
| 4 | Constipating drugs such as opioids increase motility while inhibiting propulsive activity , and abnormal hypermotility patterns have been reported to occur in the irritable bowel syndrome and constipation . |
| 5 | If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play . |
| 6 | Mooney was left out of the derby game against Middlesbrough on Monday and would have been expected to play in the Pontins Central League game . |
| 7 | Peter had n't been expected to work in the men 's outfitters , never had and never would . |
| 8 | However , the one thing that instantly distinguished PageMaker from the rest was the fact that it had been designed to work in the same way as a traditional paste-up table . |
| 9 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 10 | Or those voracious fish-eaters , otters , have been seen to play in the same pool as the salmon , fish who would normally flee from the presence of such a competent and fearsome predator . |
| 11 | However , he has not been selected to play in the Olympics this year . |
| 12 | The University Chamber Choir , who have been selected to compete in the Sainsbury 's Choir of the Year Competition , and sing at the installation of Sir Trevor Holdsworth as Chancellor will be joined by the Chamber Orchestra for a concert in Bradford Cathedral on May 20 at 7.30pm . |
| 13 | Four horse trials riders from Northern Ireland have been selected to compete in the Heineken Punchestown three-day international championships which begin this week outside Naas in County Kildare . |
| 14 | To reach a fuller understanding of the blood differential — its origin , purpose and effect — it is necessary to dig a little deeper and attempt to trace the underlying reasons by means of a sociological/anthropological analysis — and this is what I have been attempting to do in the course of this essay . |
| 15 | Many materials have been produced for different languages by individual teachers : these have been shown to succeed in the very specific circumstances facing a particular teacher/author in his or her classroom , but it has not so far proved possible to generalise from the successes in terms of easily accessible materials usable by different teachers under differing circumstances . |
| 16 | But much more bridging research in this field is needed so that we can get beyond pious exhortation to tested procedures that have been shown to work in the classroom as well as in the laboratory . |
| 17 | In mid-July , in response to Uruguayan concerns that it had not been invited to participate in the talks , the Foreign Minister Domingo Cavallo stressed that Uruguay was welcome to participate in future discussions and was not excluded from the common market [ for previous Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina trilateral trade accords see pp. 35309 ; 36273 ] . |
| 18 | The Chaplains , who have been invited to participate in the Congregation , are to present a report to the University Court on the activities and services of the various Chaplains . |
| 19 | With Severiano Ballesteros , Nick Faldo , Ian Woosnam and several leading Americans also in the field , Olazabal does not have the incentive of trying to gain a place in next week 's World Matchplay at Wentworth : he has already been invited to play in the event this year . |
| 20 | For , hard on the heels of being asked to play in Jack Nicklaus 's Memorial Tournament in June , he has also been invited to play in the Benson & Hedges International at St Mellion , prior to which he will play a practice round with Jose Maria Olazabal , himself a former British Amateur champion . |
| 21 | The great grandchildren of those who had been gulled by the infantile speculative ventures on offer during the manic South Sea Bubble phenomenon had obviously been conditioned to react in the same wild way . |
| 22 | Since 40% of all cases of diarrhoea have been found to occur in the 0–4 year age group , the rice-salt mixture was unable to help one of the most vulnerable groups of the population . |
| 23 | Outside , a weather vane had been built in the lee of the vicarage next door , hardly an ideal position ; especially , when I discovered that its arrow pointer had been fixed to point in the direction of the ruined castle Blanchefort in the nearby mountains . |
| 24 | STALLHOLDERS at Saturday 's Golden Jubilee Aberystwyth Show have been asked to join in the spirit of the occasion . |
| 25 | The soldiers from Abingdon have been trained to work in the snow . |
| 26 | A good thesaurus or list of subject headings is not necessarily one that has been carefully presented , printed and published , with a plethora of effective relationship displays , but rather a list that has been compiled to serve in the retrieval environment in which it is called upon to operate . |
| 27 | Sixty years ago there was not an educated mute in America , but now there are four who are principals of schools , three are editors of newspapers circulating among the hearing community , two are professors in the deaf-mute college , three are chemists , six are ordained ministers , two have entered the civil service of the government ; one of these , who had risen rapidly to a high and responsible position , resigned to enter upon the practice of law in patent cases in Chicago and Cincinnati , and has been admitted to practise in the Supreme Court of the United States . |
| 28 | Sewell at least must have benefited by the visits , and the varied material he brought home , including books as well as horseshoes , would surely have been put to use in the Veterinary College . |
| 29 | In recent years , research at Oxford has focused on how the planning system has been put to work in the past decade . |
| 30 | White may be a very good player and Wilko could have ‘ fancied him ’ , but Rocky should not have been allowed to go in the opposite direction , and as for the ‘ Cantona thing ’ I think that decision will haunt Wilkinson to the grave . |