Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Other case management experiments have been intended to reduce reliance upon hospital or residential care , and some have shown that this can be achieved while others produce conflicting evidence . |
2 | On each occasion , every available manservant had been posted to keep watch for soldiers , and she knew that if ever there was a night Tristram should not come visiting , this was it . |
3 | FORMER Wallaby fly-half Tony Melrose has been reinstated to play rugby in Sydney next season after playing 10 seasons of rugby league with four different New South Wales rugby league premiership clubs . |
4 | In the second stage of the project the schedules have been redesigned to take account of suggestions made by social workers . |
5 | A tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen has been arranged to take place on Friday 24 September in the canteen at Barlaston from 7pm . |
6 | A wide range of measures have been developed to encourage exploitation of technologies , the diffusion of technologies between sectors and the spread of best practice . |
7 | They use the money they have been given to buy services from hospitals or community units either in their own districts or elsewhere . |
8 | A CONSORTIUM of 48 syndicates at Lloyd 's of London has been formed to insure farmers against problems with their crops . |
9 | Though the account remains essentially the same as in earlier editions , the bibliography has been revised to take account of scholarship down to 1990 . |
10 | These animals are just a handful from the diversity of the natural world and have been hounded to near extinction by trade , disappearing habitat and hunting . |
11 | When war broke out she had been evacuated to foster parents in Yorkshire until the junior art schools at Central , Camberwell and Hammersmith were resettled as the London Art School at Northampton . |
12 | Smoking has previously been reported to inhibit synthesis of PGE 2 by gastric mucosa . |
13 | A combination of cimetidine or ranitidine and histamine has been reported to increase survival in tumour bearing mice when compared with histamine 2 receptor antagonist and histamine only controls . |
14 | Indeed , an uncontrolled trial of thymectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis resistant to conventional treatment has been reported to increase duration of remission . |
15 | Enhancement of gastrointestinal synthesis of leukotrienes by NSAIDs in humans has not hitherto been shown and experimental evidence is conflicting ; indomethacin has been reported to enhance synthesis of LTB 4 , have no effect on synthesis of LTB 4 , and hinhibit synthesis of LTC 4 , albeit to a lesser extent than its effects on prostaglandins in the rat stomach . |
16 | The Boyan ensemble are from Kiev and had been booked to play dates in Britain . |
17 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
18 | Both have been designed to incorporate SVQs in care at level III . |
19 | Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority . |
20 | Mr Gandhi 's manoeuvrings — which included four visits to the president , who can dissolve parliament — appear to have been designed to lure supporters from Mr Shekhar and from the previous prime minister , V.P. Singh . |
21 | In April 1986 the government lost its Shops Bill , which had been designed to permit trading on Sunday . |
22 | To take two extreme examples , while Third World countries have been pressured to dismantle barriers against imports in the 1970s and 1980s , the United States and the European Community have built and maintained high protective walls against agricultural imports . |
23 | On the other hand the fine ivory work from Nimrud suggests that the Assyrians made use of the workshops of Tyre , which by this time may have been constrained to use ivory from Africa . |
24 | Under that section the SIB have been empowered to issue statements of practice governing the conduct and financial standing of persons authorized to carry on investment business . |
25 | Because nobody had been empowered to sign cheques on Elinor 's behalf , no household bills or salaries could be paid : for three weeks , the servants ' wages had been paid by Buzz from her own bank account . |
26 | In London it had been decided to station detachments of Blenheim IV bombers from 2 Group , Bomber Command , on Malta . |
27 | In this way the move to more fertile soils may have been made to improve productivity per person and increase output for similar or less effort . |
28 | When attempts have been made to calculate rates of sedimentation in what look like continuously deposited sediments , the results look ridiculous . |
29 | Attempts have been made to relate expenditure on R and D to performance indicators both in aggregate terms and at the level of particular industries [ Pavitt , 1980 ] . |
30 | As chairman Reg Brealey explains in his statement , changes have been made to provide depreciation on buildings and equipment , to accrue retirement gratuity payments , to write off to p&l account the exchange adjustment on foreign currency loans and to provide for interest payable — ‘ all to help in the cause of a clean auditor 's report ’ . |