Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] to a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 2 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 3 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 4 | In the first place , it will be transferred only if it has been given previously to a candidate of higher preference now elected with a surplus or eliminated . |
| 5 | The once-scarlet , once-thick carpet in the foyer had been trodden down to a greasy thinness the exact shade of hard , encrusted blood . |
| 6 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 7 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 8 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 9 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 10 | He was brought back to Gloucester , and has now been transferred temporarily to a secure unit in Bristol . |
| 11 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 12 | Contrary to speculation , the house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925 , but remains where it was designed to stand , the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence , a permanent record of a way of life between the wars . |
| 13 | A NATIONAL treasure has been tracked down to a German museum after it was allegedly stolen by a man using a metal detector . |
| 14 | The company has been put into liquidation , and some of its assets have been sold off to a rival firm . |
| 15 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 16 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 17 | Britain 's church life has been compared not to a virgin landscape but to a garden which has been planted already . |
| 18 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |
| 19 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 20 | Several placements have broken down , including that for one person in this study ( WG ) , who was returned to hospital at the last datapoint ( this person has since been brought back to a staffed house in her home district ) . |
| 21 | However , television is such a major part of people 's lives that simple human interaction has been cut down to a minimum . |
| 22 | In St Servatius this phenomenon has meant that large areas of the interior walls have been eaten away to a depth of more than a centimetre and the paint layers on the walls are beginning to peel off . |
| 23 | The slide-rules had been passed on to a Swedish group known as Bread and Fish , which was packing them together with clothes and medicines for southern Africa , when arsonists burned down the warehouse . |
| 24 | In any case , even if it were possible , the shares may have been passed on to a bona fide purchaser for value . |
| 25 | EASTENDERS star Letitia Dean lies bleeding , trapped inside a car which has been shunted on to a railway line . |
| 26 | The operational station — the engineering workshop and so " on which was previously accommodated within the bus station has been shunted off to a glorified shed on what can best be described as a piece of waste ground " . |
| 27 | The Roe workings had , in the Deep Mine , been taken down to a depth of about 372 ft. from surface though the upper parts were of course , much older . |
| 28 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 29 | A little boy had been sent off to a birthday party all dressed up in his best clothes and clutching a present for his school friend . |
| 30 | Like the rest of the boat , the cabin had been fitted out to a high standard using top-quality materials . |