Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Euroqualifications from LCCIEB have been developed specifically to meet the needs of those doing business in the European Community after 1992 and to help to promote mobility of labour in the internal market . |
| 2 | Group resources have made the innovation possible because polymers have been developed specifically to meet the requirements of the chemists developing the formulations . |
| 3 | The bodkin trick should have been completed beforehand to make the sleeve ready . |
| 4 | Wide area networks , which may have been installed initially to link the geographically remote branches of a company , are increasingly expanding to enable the company to transact business with its customers and suppliers electronically — worldwide . |
| 5 | ‘ We ca n't have him dying of thirst before his flesh has been mortified enough to appease the Dark Ones , ’ said Wiggs . |
| 6 | The difficulty is that Maastricht could not have been rolled away to leave the open-market EC that was being built beforehand . |
| 7 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 8 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 9 | In South Africa under apartheid , education has been designed specifically to socialize the mass of the population into accepting an inferiority based on race and class . |
| 10 | The singing is always very fine and full bodied , although I feel that the chance has been missed occasionally to drop the dynamic level to the point where hairs are raised . |
| 11 | Also these towns have large areas of old nineteenth century houses which had been built cheaply to house the workers near the mills and mines . |
| 12 | True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home . |
| 13 | In the light of the misunderstandings and bitterness which can affect all the parties involved in an industrial dispute , it is perhaps regrettable that no attempt has been made adequately to define the legal rights of workers involved in such disputes . |
| 14 | Analysis of the cause of these problems indicates that solutions lie in changes in human organization and so no attempts have been made yet to automate the allocation of rooms to classes . |
| 15 | Many attempts have been made simply to control the starfish . |
| 16 | In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it . |
| 17 | It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made . |
| 18 | But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption , in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid , entirely hypothetical detail . |
| 19 | Victoria was banned from the riverside and Gertie had been instructed never to take the baby anywhere near the water . |
| 20 | The curtains have been drawn aside to reveal the female subject as she speaks , writes , paints — making and doing , in the original Greek sense of poiein , from which we derive ‘ poet ’ . |
| 21 | A comma has been used here to separate the two distinct impressions , but some might think it unnecessary even there . |
| 22 | So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery . |
| 23 | Previously , ‘ nearest-neighbour ’ parameters for the ten possible unique combinations of base pair stacking interactions [ 7 ] have been used successfully to predict the stability and melting temperatures of RNA duplexes of known composition . |
| 24 | This procedure has been used extensively to analyse the CAAT repeat region from several different lic loci derived from a variety of H.influenzae strains and has proved to be highly reproducible . |
| 25 | Since the quarrel which put the kingdoms of France and England at odds with each other was based upon historical differences , it was only reasonable that history should also have been used both to emphasise the differences between them , and to allow each to show itself how its own history and its own characteristics had developed . |
| 26 | Quadrats of a large scale had been used before to determine the precise range of various species , but Clements and Pound marked off small areas , often only a metre square , so that every plant of every species could be identified . |
| 27 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 28 | RCD candidates therefore stood and were returned for all nine constituencies in the Oct. 13 by-elections , despite the fact that these seats had been vacated specifically to induce the opposition to end the ruling party 's monopoly of all 141 National Assembly seats . |
| 29 | He had been invited either to refute the allegations publicly or to withdraw from the elections , and reportedly chose to take the second option . |
| 30 | The Design Change ( DC ) has been updated successfully to reflect the specified changes . |