Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] to [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usefulness of expressing a nonsinusoidal periodic voltage or current as an equivalent harmonic Fourier series has been alluded to on various occasions in the previous chapters . |
| 2 | Although this formulation has been referred to in subsequent cases it has not been adopted as laying down an all embracing test . |
| 3 | It has been added to by sedimentary deposits . |
| 4 | Harris is believed to have said on receiving the Directive to form a Target Marking Force , that this was one more occasion where a commander in the field had been dictated to by junior officers at the Ministry . |
| 5 | The applicants , Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , defendants in a libel action brought against them by David Woodley and Roger Clifford , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that C.N.L. were at liberty to receive from Michael Thomas Bromell copies of all such witness statements , notes , notebooks and other documents which had come into existence in the course of an investigation by the Police Complaints Authority into the conduct of David Woodley and Roger Clifford as had been read to or by the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) or had been referred to in open court during the hearing of Reg. v. Bromell ( unreported ) , 22 June 1992 , C.A. , on a reference , dated 10 May 1991 , of his case by the Home Secretary under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 ; and/or ( 2 ) variation of the implied undertaking pursuant to which Michael Thomas Bromell had received the documents under the order of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) on 9 July 1991 , so as to permit him to disclose copies of all such documents described in ( 1 ) above to C.N.L. for the purpose of defending the libel action . |
| 6 | He himself was still quietly married to a girl he had been introduced to at high school . |
| 7 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 8 | Erm you you 've asked er chairman for for a general comment on on what 's been referred to as environmental discount , environmental considerations and so forth . |