Example sentences of "[been] [verb] to several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter name has been given to several somewhat different structures . |
| 2 | He was accused of passing on ‘ state secrets ’ to the Agence France Presse reporter Lawrence Macdonald , whose account of the student protests has been referred to several occasions . |
| 3 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 4 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 5 | Since then he had been attracted to several women , and discovered both the intoxicating pleasures offered by some of them and the speed with which fulfilled desire died . |
| 6 | This principle is a quite general one that has been applied to several ‘ dimensions ’ of personality . |
| 7 | One favoured process is known as back-arc spreading and this has been applied to several such basins . |
| 8 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
| 9 | It is not a colour-marking breed , but has been exported to several countries in Europe , North America and Australasia . |
| 10 | Water had been brought to several greens at a cost of £91 , partly offset by £64 donated by members , thus suggesting the failure of the earlier water supply scheme . |
| 11 | Despite this claim to fame the church has been subjected to several indignities , having been deconsecrated and used as a barracks and a chemical store before being reopened for worship in 1899 . |
| 12 | They discovered a car battery had been wired to several bottles of petrol . |