Example sentences of "[been] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Adrie van Tiggelen , the Anderlecht defender who missed the Wales game because of suspension , has been recalled to a 16-man squad which also includes AC 's Frank Rijkaard . |
| 2 | I have been banished to a windy concrete corridor far from everywhere . |
| 3 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 4 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 5 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |
| 6 | Indeed , the six-metre long sauropod neck has been likened to a living crane for lifting the head to feed , with up to fifteen vertebrae possessing unique extra articulations in the neck to combine strength with agility . |
| 7 | The emotions have been likened to a musical instrument and it is a man 's task to play upon its uttermost strings . |
| 8 | Thus , the yearly incidence rate was 0.03% for the whole population , and even if it had been adjusted to an age-standardised incidence , the observed incidence of 1.2% would still be more than expected , considering that the uncorrected risk ratio was 40 . |
| 9 | By 1900 , however , a Far Eastern department had been created and most of the business relating to African questions had been given to a new African department : in other words the administrative subdivisions were adapted to the changing political importance of different parts of the world . |
| 10 | Alone of twentieth-century prime Ministers her name has been given to a political ‘ doctrine ’ and undoubted political style . |
| 11 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 12 | despite no implied obligation on a landlord to maintain land over which a right of way had been given to a third party there was an obligation in the case where use of property would be impossible in the absence or without that obligation . |
| 13 | Mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the U K is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of U N er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant . |
| 14 | Debbie has been referred to a Young Disabled Unit and a psychiatric unit ( ‘ On the second day they found her playing cards in the alcoholics ’ ward ’ ) . |
| 15 | it may have been referred to a higher court . |
| 16 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 17 | In our case I believe it has helped all three of us. has been exposed to a greater variety of people and situations which may have contributed to his easy-going nature . |
| 18 | Tumour ‘ promoters ’ are substances such as the phorbolesters that are n't carcinogenic by themselves but encourage the growth of malignant tumours in cells that have previously been exposed to a low dose of a true carcinogen ( known as an initiator ) . |
| 19 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 20 | He had been attracted to a young lady who lived with her mother ; he called on them constantly , smiling all the time , but never saying what he was after ; with the inevitable result that the damsel got tired of her tortoise " , and gave her hand to a brisker suitor . |
| 21 | Replacements have been confined to a new head gasket around 3,000 hours and one each of pto and main clutches . |
| 22 | During the war , ABPC had been confined to a small studio at Welwyn , producing low-budget crime melodramas . |
| 23 | As anyone who has ever been confined to a closed institution will know , meals are events : they are the landmarks in each repetitive day , often providing the only elements of novelty or surprise in an otherwise predictable routine . |
| 24 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 25 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 26 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 27 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 28 | His limited activities to date had been confined to an uncommitted setting-up operation . |
| 29 | She said that patients had been evacuated to an upper floor . |
| 30 | The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags . |