Example sentences of "been [vb pp] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two ladies in attendance on the Queen had been banished to a corner of the solar , where they sat talking quietly , half hidden by a carved wooden screen , but only the slightest effort would have been needed for either of them to overhear the interrogation going on by the fireplace . |
| 2 | The outbreak has been traced to a function held at Uncle Dick 's Restaurant . |
| 3 | Public sector pay settlements have been limited to a maximum of one point five per cent . |
| 4 | This situation has been ameliorated to a degree , in the face of overseas pressure to change the system , not least because of the Japanese need to maintain its market position in other countries , and concern about retaliatory measures against Japanese imports . |
| 5 | Widely known for the large painted steel sculptures which brighten plazas and lobbies throughout the United States , and for his regular appearances in the New York salerooms , he is surprisingly unfamiliar in a London context and has not been treated to a museum exhibition in this country since the Tate Gallery 's survey of 1962 . |
| 6 | Then he had been treated to a display of her marksmanship , involving both moving and stationary targets . |
| 7 | You 'd have been crushed to a point . |
| 8 | B.P. has been likened to a honeycomb where groups worked as if in sealed-off cells . |
| 9 | While the American federal system has been likened to a marble cake , the British political system can be likened to a patchwork quilt . |
| 10 | They have a very strong smell that has been likened to a variety of disagreeable substances , from stale sweat to rotten onions . |
| 11 | An amorphous polymer in this state has been likened to a plate of frozen spaghetti . |
| 12 | The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organisation ( HMO ) , with the difference that the health authority is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership . |
| 13 | ] The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organization ( HMO ) , with the difference that the ‘ organization ’ is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership . |
| 14 | Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion . |
| 15 | By the time I 'd recovered I was skinnier than ever , having been rationed to an orange a day . |
| 16 | Why the Scots in general , and the sea-fishermen in particular , should have put up with this monstrous injustice is hard to understand , but the insult has now been compounded to a degree which surely demands some national response . |
| 17 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 18 | Here dance , music , creative writing and ( my particular concern ) visual art had been developed to a quality which was remarkable . |
| 19 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 20 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 21 | But TODAY can reveal the contract for signals controlling the track to London 's Docklands has been given to a firm called Alcatel , which has manufacturing bases in Germany and Canada . |
| 22 | This number had previously been given to a liaison unit with the R.A.F. contingent in France in early 1940 , and before that to a Bomber Command training unit . |
| 23 | This name has lately been given to a Trident submarine . |
| 24 | I do not know what consideration had been given to a prosecution of the defendants in this case at the time the letter was written . |
| 25 | Charges against him were dropped in May 1988 after a meeting between the Crown Prosecution Service and the force complaints department , because his alleged confession had been given to an officer , Det Sgt James McManus , who was already under investigation in another case . |
| 26 | It is the first time that the Stylesetter Award has been given to an Axminster carpet range . |
| 27 | Thus , patients were not always being admitted to hospital and , when admitted , had not always been referred to a psychiatrist . |
| 28 | She had been referred to a physician the year after surgery with chest and epigastric pain . |
| 29 | I have n't been referred to a rheumatologist , as I 've been told that I 'm very young and prone to worrying too much about becoming disabled . |
| 30 | If the patient has been referred to a hospital or has sought emergency treatment at a hospital , then he may proceed either against the negligent individual , the relevant Health Authority , or both . |