Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Count Vulgrin , shortly before 1179 , had married Elizabeth , daughter of Hugh , lord of Amboise , suggests that the marriage had been arranged to suit the Angevins , for Hugh was a trusted vassal . |
| 2 | Most of us have been taught to see the Davy lamp as a scientific advance in that it saved the lives of miners because it would burn without causing explosions in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 3 | Finally , a look at Air Domes Ltd. , a new London based company which has just been formed to market the Yeadon Air structure . |
| 4 | A user who has been nominated to pursue the SPR should either : |
| 5 | A user who has been nominated to pursue the SPR should either : |
| 6 | Stone Roses , Happy Mondays and the Inspirals have all been tipped to break the States but THEY CHARLATANS may have the best chance of all . |
| 7 | Stone Roses , Happy Mondays and the Inspirals have all been tipped to break the States but THEY CHARLATANS may have the best chance of all . |
| 8 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 9 | As an aside the company announced that when running on an ES/9000 running other appropriately ‘ trusted ’ software , the new VTAM 3.4.2 has been designed to meet the US Department of Defense 's B1 security rating . |
| 10 | The manufacturing and mining district of north Staffordshire has recently been claimed to share the Lancashire trend . |
| 11 | The march , scheduled to end in the Kashmiri capital , Srinagar , on Jan. 26 ( Republic Day ) , had reportedly been organized to express the BJP 's opposition to the special constitutional status accorded to Kashmir and , in particular , to a clause prohibiting non-Kashmiris from owning land in the state . |
| 12 | Despite all the efforts on the part of the School Board and the local parents it has been decided to close the Woodhall Drive building and transfer the nursery children to the Primary School Annexe in Baberton Avenue . |
| 13 | In 1936 it had been decided to relay the Lytham Road track , despite considerable opposition in the Council . |
| 14 | If B 's complaint were that an attempt should have been made to invoke the Gallagher jurisdiction when his appeal was before the House of Lords , then it is long out of time . |
| 15 | When the first attempts had been made to adapt the Wright Brothers ' invention as a lethal instrument , pilots went aloft with steel darts and took pot shots at one another with service revolvers . |
| 16 | The experience of the River Avon project which was raised by one of the West Lothian members illustrated that while a particular effort had been made to inform the West Lothian secretary , the mechanism was still not right . |
| 17 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
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| 19 | ‘ Skinhead ’ had already been used to describe the US marines , but a skinhead crop is not a crewcut , which is close cut at the sides and flat on top . |
| 20 | The money has been used to upgrade the Middlesbrough plant 's chemical reactor , allowing it to double its output of speciality chemicals . |
| 21 | The attacks were motivated by the belief that the depot had been used to supply the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) in its secessionist war against the PNG government . |
| 22 | We have kindly been invited to visit the Craven Arms and District Model Railways Society ( CADMRS ) for a demonstration of their activities , at 7.30 p.m. on Friday 10th May 1991 at their club house in Craven Arms . |
| 23 | He was content , however , in the knowledge that this man had only ever been known to serve the Rada Loa , those good spirits who were often associated with Catholic saints when the people felt it necessary to show some respect for the official state religion without compromising their traditional beliefs . |
| 24 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 25 | England senior international referee Fred Howard has been appointed to referee the Pilkington Cup final between Bath and the Harlequins at Twickenham on May 2 . |
| 26 | Jack McLoone has been appointed to head the Dymocks bookshop chain in Australia , reports Thorpe 's Weekly Book Newsletter . |
| 27 | Mind you if Frank Bough had been a Manchester beauty queen with no previous experience would he have been appointed to front the BBC 's Breakfast Time as was Debbie Greenwood ? |
| 28 | An Italian , Salvatore Settis , has been appointed to direct the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities , the institution devoted to advanced research by international scholars into the history of art ‘ broadly defined as an integral part of human history and society ’ . |
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