Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] [been] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Lucien how much the northerners resented the Ixmaritian tithes , and how in some cases people had shed their blood to resist them , a course of action that had been doomed to failure . |
| 2 | The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk . |
| 3 | Is he a deity bearing off animals that have been sacrificed to him ? |
| 4 | Of course , pairs of probes that have been hybridised to mutually disjoint libraries can not can not be compared in this way . |
| 5 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 6 | It was connected with the Marshall Aid fund at the end of the war , er where the United States actually wanted evidence of the fact that funds that had been transferred to the U K Treasury , were being so to speak properly used by the Bank of England and that the Bank of England issued this er one million pound note as evidence that the funds were made available to the Bank of England by the Treasury . |
| 7 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |
| 8 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 9 | A map can be very useful if there is one available , or a conducted tour of the land , but it is your responsibility to ensure that you stay within the limits of the concessions that have been made to you . |
| 10 | This is a policy intention that has been attributed to Toby Weaver , and which ( as Sir Toby ) he largely confirmed in an article in 1982 . |
| 11 | Could I then ask the clerk to read the words that have been proposed to be added to number two as it stands on page one eight five . |
| 12 | There he read out a cablegram that had been sent to MCC in London . |
| 13 | BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MUSIC , LET'S take time out to talk about the sound : does Denon 's painstaking work with these Savoy masters really represent an audible improvement or does it mean — as with some historic classical recordings that have been treated to ‘ NoNOISE ’ or ‘ Cedar ’ — merely reduced surface noise at the expense of the loss of the top end ( important ambient noise , feathery cymbals etc. ) and a tubby overall sound ? |
| 14 | Slade LJ continued by pointing out that , although the breach of a positive covenant is not always capable of remedy : Nevertheless , I would , for my part , accept … submission that the breach of a positive covenant ( whether it be a continuing breach or a once and for all breach ) will ordinarily be capable of remedy … the concept of capability of remedy for the purpose of section 146 must surely be directed to the question whether the harm that has been done to the landlord by the relevant breach is for practicable purposes capable of being retrieved . |
| 15 | The US White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater had meanwhile ( according to Le Monde of March 26 ) said that it would not be sufficient for Libya to hand the two men over to the Arab League ; Libya had to comply with all the demands that had been referred to in Resolution 731 [ see ICJ verdict below ] . |
| 16 | Running her hand over what was left of thick , dark hair that had been shaved to within half an inch of its life , and which served to enhance her astonishingly beautiful face , she smiled . |
| 17 | W what I go for are two major points I think which actually demonstrate the fallaciousness of this budget that has been proposed to us as an amendment . |
| 18 | I think Mr Chairman that the r the budget that has been put to all by this side of the house should be supported and I sincerely hope that er we will get support from others in this Council Chamber . |
| 19 | The Policy and Resources Committee on Friday considered the position that included a take , a potential take of fifty thousand for this Committee , and similar reductions from other committees , but which left the funding deficit problem of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and what the Policies and Resources Committee decided was to ask the committees , all committees to look at how this six hundred and seventy one thousand gap would be funded , and that that should include committees like ourselves which had already identified and had put into the guidelines for reduction , the full five percent reduction that had been requested to be identified early in the process . |
| 20 | Others went their own way , delving farther into the secrets that had been revealed to them , living in the deep woods of the high crags , visited by petitioners who sought aid . |
| 21 | Erm the development limits the landscape policies that have been referred to are our response to a number of considerations , erm protection of the open countryside is just one of those . |
| 22 | Disclose the accounting policies that have been applied to stocks and long-term contracts , in particular the method of ascertaining turnover and attributable profit . |
| 23 | There are some projects that have been offered to us and there are a couple of tracks just sitting there which have Freddie 's vocal on — not much , but maybe two or three songs . ’ |
| 24 | Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time . |
| 25 | At the moment I am examining a large number of detailed proposals that have been put to me . |
| 26 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 27 | For Canguilhem the history of a concept will have its own specific temporality , demonstrating less a process of epistemological self-correction as in the pure sciences than the persistence of the problem within all the contradictory solutions and ideological values that have been given to it and which make up its history . |
| 28 | The qualifications that are being introduced , and the credit values that have been assigned to each qualification are as follows : |
| 29 | It was the aircraft of 249 Squadron that had been transferred to ‘ Ark Royal ’ ; meanwhile the groundcrews of all three squadrons were on their way round the Cape of Good Hope , bound via the Suez Canal for Egypt . |
| 30 | They have a very strong smell that has been likened to a variety of disagreeable substances , from stale sweat to rotten onions . |