Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 2 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 3 | It is 157 metres long , 92 metres across at its widest , the façade is 68 metres wide , the top of the golden Madonna 's statue ( Il Madonnina ) is 108 metres high , and the whole cathedral has been calculated to weigh in excess of 325,000 tons . |
| 4 | An alternative but related statistic , population potential ( Craig , 1972 ) has therefore been developed to take into account the catchment area of population , but once again different spatial units can produce considerable variations in population potential distributions ( Craig , 1974 ) . |
| 5 | They predicted that he would make friends more easily , reckoning without natural adolescent malice and the excessive value their pupils had been taught to place on modesty , however false . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd been remanded to appear in court for a driving offence , ’ Fairham said . |
| 7 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 8 | If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker . |
| 9 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 10 | For example , the South West Africa Territory Force ( SWATF ) , numbering around 30,000 has been confined to base on full-pay instead of being disbanded . |
| 11 | Since then he has been permitted to search on Crown estates in Morayshire which were last excavated by the Duke of Richmond in 1860 . |
| 12 | Serum gastrin concentrations have been reported to rise with age . |
| 13 | These proteins have been reported to bind to calmodulin . |
| 14 | His league 's annual meeting at Mountain Rangers clubhouse at Rhosgadfan had been expected to put in place a new stipulation to limit one player to one club . |
| 15 | Hawke , who had been expected to speak in favour of a party report recommending the approval of new mines on a case-by-case basis , made no contribution to the debate . |
| 16 | Have you ever been approached to appear in Dynasty or Dallas ? |
| 17 | That information is sent to tactical computers in control stations to produce guidance for artillery and missiles — the American army 's new tactical missile system has been designed to operate as part of such a set-up , hitting targets more than 100km ( 60 miles ) off . |
| 18 | Now you will be able to travel independantly and safely in the evening , and the time-table has been designed to coincide with performance times at The Playhouse . |
| 19 | The GLOBAL method has been applied to solve for porosity , water saturation and the complex lithology . |
| 20 | No attempt has been made to deal in detail with the Act 's provisions , but they are a classic example of the Inland Revenue 's neurosis with tax avoidance and the use of the principle described in the Financial Times as ‘ Sodom in reverse ’ . |
| 21 | Similarly , one minute I 'm a busy wide-awake person , and the next , when the decision has been made to go to sleep , I 'm a wide-awake person lying down in bed . |
| 22 | In the present study no attempt has been made to account for senescence , because the amount of dead material is small . |
| 23 | It will be noted that no reference has been made to service by post ; the provisions in the Rules of the Supreme Court permitting the use of ‘ ordinary first-class post ’ or service by inserting the writ through the letter-box at the defendant 's address are not applied to service out of the jurisdiction . |
| 24 | Attempts have been made to improve upon keyboard communication with the computer . |
| 25 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 26 | When we turn from LETTERS to Sabbatical ( 1982 ) , the latter seems almost to have been written to put into practice the theoretical position laid down in ‘ The Literature of Replenishment ’ . |
| 27 | In the BIP competition , she also achieved one of only two merits awarded in the architectural section with her photograph of the interior of the Darlington Cornmill , which she had been commissioned to take on behalf of the architects . |
| 28 | I had never been told to run on duty . |
| 29 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 30 | we 've been told to prepare for frost tonight |