Example sentences of "been [verb] to [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some thought will already have been given to this in deciding how many priorities will be tackled in the coming year . |
| 2 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 3 | This has now been modified to that of SARFU representative , whatever that means . |
| 4 | References have been confined to some of the more significant primary sources and to secondary sources that readers may find particularly interesting or readable . |
| 5 | ‘ But no specific incidents have yet been reported to either of the national associations . |
| 6 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 7 | Apart from the removal of the track brakes , few modifications seem to have been made to any of these cars before the 1914–1918 war . |
| 8 | Reference has already been made to some of these changes . |
| 9 | Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth . |
| 10 | Of the two main sources of pearls those from marine molluscs have always been preferred to those from freshwater . |
| 11 | Attention has been drawn to this in particular by Claudio Vita Finzi . |
| 12 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 14 | At twenty , he still wants to become a muleteer , though by now the Spanish location has been narrowed to that of Andalusia . |
| 15 | Your application was one of a number which were recommended only in reduced form , by following the committee decision the costs have been raised to those in your original application . |
| 16 | Has singular habit of descending into wells to drink when arrival and departure have been compared to those of wasps at a hole nest . |
| 17 | A RUSTY old gasometer which fed-up local residents want demolished because ‘ it 's a blot on the landscape ’ has been compared to some of Italy 's most beautiful buildings . |
| 18 | To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics . |
| 19 | Most of that land had been allocated to those with forest grazing rights , whose method of running stock would be affected by the enclosures . |
| 20 | Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade . |
| 21 | A deliberate counterpoint has been introduced to each of the installations on the four floors by juxtaposing the Nouveaux Realistes with Cristo 's Support/Surface works , Picasso with Figuration Libre . |
| 22 | I think Mr Chairman that the r the budget that has been put to all by this side of the house should be supported and I sincerely hope that er we will get support from others in this Council Chamber . |
| 23 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 24 | Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son . |
| 25 | Little attention has been paid to this as a separate issue in ‘ neutralist ’ writings . |
| 26 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |
| 27 | If the property is subject to mortgage and the mortgagee concerned has effected cover , confirmation that the name of the insured has been changed to that of the wife should be obtained from the mortgagee. ( g ) Leasehold The requirements of the lease as to registration of any assignment with the lessor should be observed . |