Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [vb pp] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drivers report no guerrilla attacks , even though security north of the Salang Tunnel has been largely handed over to local militia units and the army withdrawn . |
| 2 | The facility , at Spynie on the northern outskirts of the town , has been officially handed over to its operators , the Aberdeen-based Skene Enterprises Group . |
| 3 | In other areas at other times , the missing animal might have been quickly spirited away to another district for sale to a cultivator or butcher . |
| 4 | The last years of his life seem to have been largely given over to this task . |
| 5 | By mid-August boats carrying more than 1,200 Vietnamese were reported to have been forcibly towed out to international waters in the direction of Indonesia by the Malaysian Navy . |
| 6 | All she had to do was imply , without ever actually saying so , that the reins had been temporarily handed over to her . |
| 7 | All necessary information had been efficiently handed over to the new Teachers ' Representative , , who was then introduced and warmly welcomed by . |
| 8 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 9 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 10 | ‘ Had been suddenly called away to the funeral of a close relative ? |
| 11 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 12 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 13 | ‘ Entertainments ’ , ‘ Facilities for Children ’ and ‘ Sports ’ , have been individually graded up to 5 , 5 being the best . |
| 14 | In his paper on ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud established that in depression following the loss of a love-object the ego absorbs that object into itself so that the exaggerated self-reproaches , self-deprecation and self-hatred which typify the condition can be understood as sadistic drives which have been unconsciously directed on to the object whose ‘ shadow has fallen on the ego . ’ |
| 15 | In addition to that , the anomalies , which have been repeatedly pointed out to the Revenue for many years , should be corrected . |
| 16 | In addition , many other categories of workers in the formal and informal sectors in all three worlds have been progressively drawn in to the global capitalist system by the simple expedient of severely restricting and in more and more cases absolutely destroying their prospects for selfsufficiency in the provision of food , shelter and other ‘ necessities ’ of life . |
| 17 | It 's been fully serviced up to 4 months ago when I bought it . |