Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My clerk had been transferred to there . |
| 2 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 3 | My attention has been drawn to the item ‘ Managers should have conduct code ’ ( pg6 , September 30 ) . |
| 4 | The letter of 5 June 1992 from the Clerk of the House of Commons starts by saying , ‘ My attention has been drawn to the fact that the House of Lords may be asked to hear argument in this case based on the meaning or significance of words spoken during proceedings on a Bill in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 5 | My attention has been drawn to the complex and inelegant Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , and , in particular , to its possible consequences for children 's hearings . |
| 6 | MY ATTENTION has been drawn to the letter from Muriel Green ( HAS May 5 ) , chairwoman of the education committee , North Tyneside Council , in which she defends the comprehensive school ideal . |
| 7 | My father had been apprenticed to Mr. Cooper and he told me that the trucks had been made when trade was slack . |
| 8 | Since then , many of the events that have defined my life have been related to Ali . |
| 9 | My purpose has been limited to increasing a level of awareness , rather than attempting to supply solutions . |
| 10 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 11 | The Scots , equally determined to finish their programme in style and leave their Auld Enemy with the embarrassment of bottom spot in the table , opened up a 29-17 lead after five ends and by the halfway mark were still in front although their advantage had been trimmed to 53-50 . |
| 12 | Her case had been referred to the Court of Appeal by the United Kingdom Home Secretary in September 1991 after forensic evidence given at her trial had been called into question [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 13 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 14 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |
| 15 | The melody which receives Rachmaninov 's magisterial attention was not Corelli 's own but that old Iberian favourite , La Folia ( its origin has been traced to Portugal , around 1500 ) . |
| 16 | Telephone calls to their home have been diverted to the Stockton Conservative Association office in Russell Street , but no one was answering yesterday . |
| 17 | They took to calling his specimens ‘ buffons ’ , their attention having been drawn to the word by the sight of Huxley 's copy of Buffon 's Natural history , which in a series of many volumes , displayed the name repeatedly in large gilt letters on a shelf in the chart room . |
| 18 | With this type of traffic came the added danger of drugs and/or other contraband brought in to finance themselves , although this combination of smuggling was not common , probably because all their cash had been paid to the organisers of the run . |
| 19 | Morag Taylor , who plotted to murder her husband has been sentenced to community service after his pleas to the judge not to imprison her . |
| 20 | Written in careful English , it had told her little except that her name had been suggested to him by a Kevin Roberts , who had tutored briefly at her old art school , and knew their London gallery . |
| 21 | Alone of twentieth-century prime Ministers her name has been given to a political ‘ doctrine ’ and undoubted political style . |
| 22 | Their development has been entrusted to the Countryside Commission , which has been given a grant of £600,000 to set up a co-ordinating committee for each forest . |
| 23 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 24 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 25 | Even after her father had been taken to court for the abuses his family suffered , he quickly began to turn his attention to the girls , including Penny — by then married and seven months pregnant . |
| 26 | Its use has been recognised to be of value in applications such as machine translation and speech recognition . |
| 27 | A guidance note on its use has been issued to all members of academic and academic-related staff . |
| 28 | Up to date copies of the THREE STOKES GUIDE together with instructions for its use have been provided to all Personal Depts. — all staff involved in Pleasurecraft claims should be fully instructed in the use of this Guide . |
| 29 | Its interior has been restored to its original eighteenth-century wood-panelled glory , and in each of the sparsely-furnished rooms is some of their extensive collection of nineteenth-century vases and pottery . |
| 30 | ‘ Could you tell her that Mr Warden 's neighbour phoned to say that her uncle 's been taken to hospital ? ’ |