Example sentences of "been [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not originally been intended to carry on the research after that date , but it was so successful that finding was obtained to set up a panel study . |
| 2 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 3 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 4 | The particular principles adopted relate to attitudes and stated priorities , so there are schools where something like the Danish approach is used , and other schools where committees have been formed to set out the principles of a formal system comparable to SEE or SE . |
| 5 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 6 | In the UK , and in the USA , the first step has been to try to set up an assessment procedure ( Simpson , 1981 ) ; then to consider how training might best be implemented . |
| 7 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 8 | c ) The stakes which have been installed to mark out the areas of additional planting on the Sighthill Section of the Bypass . |
| 9 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 10 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 11 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 12 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Although we have a clearer picture than we did of long-term changes in demography and household structure , little has been done to fill out the picture in terms of living experience . |
| 14 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 15 | Finally , Mr Murray said that he had received numerous letters about the selection of the typeface ( Courier ) for all our future correspondence and due to the strength of feeling on this and other layout issues it has been decided to set up a Keyboard Operators panel to discuss the way forward . |
| 16 | ‘ Like many others , I welcome the concession that has been made to leave out the airline staff and the railway employees and all the others that are left out by the dropping of clause 54(4) . |
| 17 | A request has been made to read out the module to be updated but this has been unsuccessful . |
| 18 | Already , however , a committee of assembly members - among them only one Maronite — has been instructed to draw up a report , once the debates are over , on the changes in the covenant which a majority of parliamentarians will accept . |
| 19 | Two miners had been instructed to bring down an unsafe part of the roof which presented a danger to the miners . |
| 20 | The hangar doors on the farthest building had been opened to bring out the helicopter . |
| 21 | I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’ |
| 22 | They are preparing a new bid but meanwhile homeless men are already being turned away as staff have been told to run down the unit ready for closure on March 31 . |
| 23 | What makes it truly innovative is that CATI techniques have been used to carry out a survey that is very different in design from traditional surveys . |
| 24 | Simple commands have been used to set up a recording system , add data to it , change its structure and produce reports . |
| 25 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 26 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 27 | The backlight button or manual iris control has been used to open up the lens aperture in order to give the foreground subject the correct exposure . |
| 28 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 29 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 30 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |