Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first ballot was dogged by controversy , when parents opposed to the school opting out claimed a propaganda war had been waged to promote the move . |
| 2 | The development of gap junctions in the human gastric mucosa has been examined to see if there is any relation to gastric ulcer . |
| 3 | The computer was programmed by Jewish scholars to examine the text for differences of word usage in much the same way that Shakespeare 's plays or Paul 's letters have been examined to determine whether they were written by their putative authors . |
| 4 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 5 | A reporter explained , ‘ NHS staff throughout the south of the city have been recalled to deal with the emergency . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Swindon Town 0 Middlesbrough 1 BERNIE Slaven has been recalled to face Manchester United in the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final first leg at Ayresome Park on Wednesday . |
| 8 | Designed by William Kent who 'd been commisioned to improve the landscape at Shotover , it 's an exotic , mysterious building , topped with battlements , pinnacles and turrets . |
| 9 | Since inversion of the writing hand has been hypothesised to correlate with reduced lateralisation of brain functions it would be expected that there is a relation between inversion and familial sinistrality which also appears to relate , albeit inconsistently , to reduced perceptual asymmetries . |
| 10 | Kick-offs have even been delayed to fit in with Sky TV advertisements . |
| 11 | Saints fans have been honoured to have seen the likes of Tom Van Vollenhoven and Mal Meninga . |
| 12 | The European Parliament has also been lobbied to ban the import of all yellowfin tuna , and consumer boycotts are already underway in several European countries . |
| 13 | Class of Year Three children The " Keeper " is a guard who has been blinded to stop him ever setting eyes on the magic jewels . |
| 14 | It was felt essential to continue the Course at a National level and be available to students from a distance and as our training strength is already at full stretch it would not be possible at present to consider a weekly training course , which had been mooted to run alongside . |
| 15 | What 's the Devil been eating to get such flesh on him ? ’ |
| 16 | The argument so far has been intended to put forward the possibility that an art work or image could be official and coercive , and unofficial and subversive , all at the same time . |
| 17 | The remark had been intended to put him in his place , but it had come out sounding peevish and sensitive , as though she actually gave a damn about what he thought of her . |
| 18 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
| 19 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 20 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 21 | Brezhnev 's scheme for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to reassure India of the Soviet desire for peace in India 's vicinity . |
| 22 | Draftsmen often use the word " independent " , as in phrases like " an independent valuer " or " an independent accountant " : the latter is used in the precedents in Appendix A. Sometimes this wording seems to have been intended to draw a distinction between expert determination and arbitration , as in the clause in the lease which was disputed in North Eastern Cooperative Society Ltd v Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 142 , where the parties were supposed to agree on " an independent surveyor " , and if they could not agree , the RICS was to appoint an arbitrator . |
| 23 | The currency reform had been intended to halt inflation and end the inequality in the terms of trade . |
| 24 | The very existence of Article 23 was regarded as indicating that the Convention was not mandatory , on the rather tortuous argument that if the Convention had been intended to replace the broad discovery powers previously exercised by the United States , acceptance of Article 23 ( which enables other States to refuse to operate the Convention in this area ) ‘ would have been most anomalous ’ . |
| 25 | In some cases bodies were covered with red ochre , which may have been intended to simulate blood , in the hope of averting physical extinction . |
| 26 | Thompson and John Foster who see repression carrying trade unionists into an undercover association with the Jacobin republican movement — the very alliance their passing had been intended to inhibit . |
| 27 | It had not originally been intended to carry on the research after that date , but it was so successful that finding was obtained to set up a panel study . |
| 28 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 29 | Balza , who put down the December 1990 rebellion by the right-wing carapintadas faction of the army [ see p. 37913 ] , declined to comment on former Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin whose release from prison the attempted coup had been intended to force . |
| 30 | This blockbuster may have been intended to rival Gone with the Wind but the result is sub-Dallas , sub-Dynasty . |