Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 2 | It is 157 metres long , 92 metres across at its widest , the façade is 68 metres wide , the top of the golden Madonna 's statue ( Il Madonnina ) is 108 metres high , and the whole cathedral has been calculated to weigh in excess of 325,000 tons . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been remanded to appear in court for a driving offence , ’ Fairham said . |
| 4 | His league 's annual meeting at Mountain Rangers clubhouse at Rhosgadfan had been expected to put in place a new stipulation to limit one player to one club . |
| 5 | Hawke , who had been expected to speak in favour of a party report recommending the approval of new mines on a case-by-case basis , made no contribution to the debate . |
| 6 | Have you ever been approached to appear in Dynasty or Dallas ? |
| 7 | No attempt has been made to deal in detail with the Act 's provisions , but they are a classic example of the Inland Revenue 's neurosis with tax avoidance and the use of the principle described in the Financial Times as ‘ Sodom in reverse ’ . |
| 8 | The crimps had been used to hold in position the three small swivels that connect to the hook lengths . |
| 9 | Members of all three of the large families of cell adhesion molecules — the cadherins , integrins , and immunoglobulin-like superfamily — have been shown to participate in signalling . |
| 10 | Transient changes in neuropsychological function have also been shown to occur in response to short term changes in plasma phenylalanine concentrations . |
| 11 | Abnormality of the electrical control activity has been shown to occur in association with motion sickness , in patients with idiopathic gastroparesis , unexplained nausea and vomiting , and anorexia nervosa , and in response to vagotomy and to administration of glucagon . |
| 12 | Three days earlier Chang had been summoned to appear in court in connection with an insider stock trading scandal . |
| 13 | There has been speculation that the body was booby-trapped before it left Awiel , and may have been timed to explode in mid-air . |
| 14 | The Revenue have been known to allow in practice the taxpayer to use the Schedule E rules with respect to certain types of benefits , eg loans . |
| 15 | These solitary cobblers are often found under a dock-leaf working merrily on a shoe , although , like their cousins the CLURICAUNS , they can frequent wine cellars and have been known to over-indulge in heather-ale . |
| 16 | ( 123 ) Patriotic Englishmen have been known to strike in time of war . |
| 17 | It is true that the shells of a number of Archaeogastropods , including the ormer Haliotis , have been found to vary in colour according to their diet . |
| 18 | Further , prolonged rain storms on Earth have been observed to occur in line with certain alignments of the moon , and perhaps of other objects in the solar system . |
| 19 | He 'd been asked to get in touch with Mike for advice . |
| 20 | are , are out , are out now , in , in relation to consultation and user groups and their re or representative organizations , have been asked to comment in relation to the whole process before we go , we get to Panel and P and R er , so that we get , and then full Council , so we will get some indication , and twenty six particularly , so that , maybe those members in the last er , er , Council do realize they might have got , we might have got our fingers burnt in relation to this particular issue . |
| 21 | Furthermore , he had been summonsed to appear in court in Grenoble on Sept. 26 in connection with an ongoing investigation into corruption charges in his capacity as president of the Alpes-Maritimes Council [ see also p. 37684 ] . |
| 22 | Peter Righton has been summonsed to appear in court next month to face allegations concerning obscene material . |
| 23 | And what about the agents Blake had been allowed to betray in order to prove his sincerity ? |
| 24 | In recent years this idea has been computerized to aid in remedy selection and several computer programs now exist . |
| 25 | This exported oil or gas is not , as it is in the West , that part of production which is surplus to domestic requirements ; it is a quota which a decision has been taken to meet in order to fulfil a particular objective . |
| 26 | Until yesterday , he and his closest confidante had been forced to meet in secret , at carefully-chosen safe houses — such as the high-walled home of Camilla 's sister , Annabel Elliot , at Stourpaine , Dorset , or her best friend Amanda Ward 's secluded Berkshire mansion . |
| 27 | Either the whole matter could have been left to disappear in limbo , as it might well have done , or counsel and the judge could have discussed how any harm done could be cured in the summing up . |
| 28 | VINNY JONES has been ordered to appear in front of a Football Association disciplinary commission at Lancaster Gate on November 17 . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |