Example sentences of "been [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reporter explained , ‘ NHS staff throughout the south of the city have been recalled to deal with the emergency . ’ |
| 2 | Halley and his successors at the Royal Greenwich Observatory would surely have been fascinated to learn of the unexpected uses to which astronomers of the late 20th century would put their solar observations . |
| 3 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 4 | A total of 4,300,000 Angolans had been registered to vote by the July 31 deadline , but in the expectation of the registration of a further 1,000,000 voters , the UN team extended the deadline by another 10 days . |
| 5 | New modules have been developed to link with the requirements of the Road Transport Industry Training Board . |
| 6 | Various techniques have been developed to respond to the problem of incomplete crime statistics , of which ‘ victim surveys ’ and ‘ self-report ’ studies are the most common . |
| 7 | The methods and techniques which have been developed to cope with the child-rearing process seem to apply equally to families who are experiencing the difficulties and frustrations of caring for an ageing relative . |
| 8 | A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system . |
| 9 | As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution . |
| 10 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 11 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 12 | While she had been speaking , the dogs had been struggling to get through the narrow crack of open door . |
| 13 | Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ? |
| 14 | from the process of the regular review of departments and faculties by ad hoc review bodies , which always include strong external representation ( this formal review procedure has recently been amended to provide for the review of all departments and faculties on , approximately , a ten-year cycle rather than , as previously , simply associating reviews with the impending retirement of a head of department ) ; and |
| 15 | Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel . |
| 16 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 17 | The six-member secretariat had been formed to deal with the SNC 's day-to-day administration . |
| 18 | A coalition of national and regional bodies servicing networks of community and voluntary sector groups has been formed to respond to the phasing out of the Urban Programme . |
| 19 | In preceding weeks a seven-member committee had been formed to prepare for the privatization of 76 state companies , in which foreign investors would be able to acquire minority holdings . |
| 20 | A National Parliamentary Movement ( MNP ) of 19 parties had been formed to campaign for the early adoption of a parliamentary system , which could mean severely curtailing Collor 's powers . |
| 21 | An advisory group , which includes distinguished engineers and scientists from outside BP , has been formed to advise on the effectiveness of the new research and engineering structure as it evolves , as well as on the relevance and potential value of emerging technologies . |
| 22 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 24 | Since then , my instruction on stalls and recoveries has been modified to emphasise from the start that there is no sensation , only symptoms , of stalling . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that , since Buckland 's editorial was written , the neatly expressive classificatory structure illustrated in his example has now been discarded to cope with the problems of fixed length codes and a single hierarchy . |
| 26 | Ma was twisting a handkerchief in her hands , and her nose was as red as the apples Anna had been forbidden to pick in the garden because they were to be kept till Christmas . |
| 27 | Their bank accounts have been frozen and the trustees have been forbidden to act during the investigation . |
| 28 | For the celebration , soldiers of his Army had been forbidden to shave for the last month so that their faced would more nearly represent those of warriors of old . |
| 29 | The two friends had been forbidden to go near the Welsh bog where Matthew , 11 , got stuck on Saturday while they were out cycling . |
| 30 | A 100-strong team of scientists has been picked to work at the company 's laboratories at Caswell , Towcester , producing the first 3 inch diameter GaAs wafers in the UK . |