Example sentences of "have been [adj] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 2 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
| 3 | Retirement has been central to all of these , although the complexity of its impact has yet to be fully explored . |
| 4 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 5 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |
| 6 | In some other countries , such as the southern African nations , the situation has been similar to that of some parts of Latin America , but there has been more freedom in recent months . |
| 7 | In some other countries , such as the southern African nations , the situation has been similar to that of some parts of Latin America , but there has been more freedom in recent months . |
| 8 | Although President Bush has been opposed to any such deal , Miami lawyers acting for Gen Noriega and leading US senators have been exploring the possibility of an agreement that could lead to a ceasefire and freedom for the American hostages . |
| 9 | It was Esquire 's dubious achievement to be born into an economy that has been unkind to all , but one in which the advertising business has been particularly hard-pressed . |
| 10 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 11 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 12 | The origin of its universal nickname has been open to much debate . |
| 13 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 14 | We can see that the Government law and order policy has been irrelevant to all crime , including upper-world crime , and indeed that its social and economic policy has caused the crime rate to rise . |
| 15 | Agribusiness that operates in sectors marked by seasonal fluctuations has been prone to this sort of employment . |
| 16 | This increase in the money supply has been disproportionate to that in any other West European or North American country . |
| 17 | The Conservative government has been sympathetic to these concerns and has launched a fierce rhetorical offensive against social liberalism , initiating or supporting measures designed to police the moral boundaries . |
| 18 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 19 | me patient should have the right sort of symptoms and should have been subject to some stressful emotional experience before the onset of the illness . |
| 20 | The effect of this may have been beneficial to some of the British potters , especially in Oxfordshire where good quality imitations of provincial samian vessels were produced . |
| 21 | The Professor 's own American sign language would have been unintelligible to those present . |
| 22 | Perhaps destitution might have been preferable to this . |
| 23 | Loyal Norling praised the refereeing of the games ; but from where I was sitting in most of the games an unfit Norling with his flair and two good touch judges would have been preferable to most of the referees I saw . |
| 24 | This was a messianic fervour that must have been similar to that possessed by the ancient zealots who died defending Masada against the Romans 2,000 years ago . |
| 25 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 26 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 27 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 28 | This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) . |
| 29 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 30 | A mixed one would have been unacceptable to both the women and their families . |