Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 2 | The message has just been hammered home to companies throughout the North-East by Croquet North . |
| 3 | Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture . |
| 4 | Tigers in southern China formerly supplied much of the demand , but they have now been hunted virtually to extinction . |
| 5 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 6 | Those who need personal assistance to enable them to live in their own homes have too often been consigned either to institutions or to enforced dependence on their families . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |