Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Two Sinn Fein members have been elected to Craigavon council .
2 Quality systems have naturally been around within Ciba Geigy for a long time and all aspects of manufacturing on the site have been registered to ISO 9001 since 1987 .
3 Doe Contracts , ( ) , is one company which has responded with ‘ enthusiasm ’ to the LTA initiative over acrylic surfaces , and has recently signed an agreement with GreenSet , a company whose product range includes the appropriately named Grand Prix acrylic and cushioned acrylic surfaces , 10,000 of which , ( acrylic ) , have been constructed to date in Europe .
4 The distributions of forest passerines in Africa show centres of endemism , centres of richness and disjunctions , which have been fitted to refugia theory , but close examination of the geographical ranges of subspecies of the Heliconiini and Ithominae groups of butterflies gives 44 centres of endemism in tropical America , though the two groups have very different ecological characteristics .
5 One hundred bankers have been invited to Toronto on April 13 when O&Y is expected to seek formal suspension of debt repayments .
6 But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper .
7 The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’
8 Formulae have been devised to measure segmental colonic transit with radio-opaque shapes .
9 Other cases of congenital diarrhoea have been ascribed to absence of intestinal apical membrane Na + /H + exchange .
10 Liability Indemnity Limits have been increased to £1,000,000 .
11 Since then , many of the events that have defined my life have been related to Ali .
12 Seven Egyptian terrorists have been sentenced to death for their part in the murder of a British nurse .
13 Thus metal surfaces which have been exposed to air , even at room temperature , are usually oxide-coated ( Fig. 6.6 ) , and the oxides present are not always those we might anticipate from a knowledge of the stability of bulk oxide samples .
14 These are done using the formula Wealth 1 — Wealth 0 as illustrated in the chapter as this is the only way of calculating profit to which the students have been exposed to date .
15 In those who have been exposed to infection the entire penis is scrubbed with liquid soap and water for several minutes , and then washed with mercuric perchloride lotion 1:2000 .
16 From the ages of the samples it is possible to establish the length of time for which certain regions on the Moon , particularly the maria , have been exposed to bombardment .
17 Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals .
18 In the design , all Version 8 integer registers have been extended to 64-bits and all register commands work on the full 64-bit register , with full hardware support for 64-bit arithmetic , including multiplication and division .
19 Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 .
20 Various other items of plant have been transferred to group factories .
21 The subjects of many of her pictures have been transferred to Limoges dinnerware and transformed into limited-edition bone china figurines .
22 Some designs have been traced to illustrations in Miller 's Figures , although they had to be adapted to fit the curved surfaces of porcelain pieces .
23 More than 55 females , from babies to elderly women , have been killed during the first year of the Uprising ; shot dead with live ammunition , rubber and plastic bullets ; suffocated with tear gas and some have been beaten to death .
24 The latest Socata single — the TBM 700 turboprop capable of a 300 knot cruise with seven passengers — may be out of the range of most of us , but 78 firm orders have been received to date , and it looks like they have another winner of their hands .
25 Like I said , I want to know how many murderers have been sent to Whitely in the last three years .
26 ‘ Six murderers have been sent to Whitely in the past three years , ’ he said .
27 Letters have been sent to Hugh about both of these campaigns .
28 Examples of these have been sent to employers , and it is hoped that they have had wide distribution .
29 ‘ Our condolences and sympathy have been sent to Captain Stewart 's family . ’
30 Butchers told to take care INFORMAL letters have been sent to butchers by Montgomeryshire District Council 's public health department drawing attention to the need for protective equipment in shops .
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