Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The financial allocations for 1992-93 have already been given to member states and plans and programmes are being prepared on a minimum change basis . |
| 2 | This provides not only a familiar and welcome face to people who have not been exposed to library services but also provides a medium of communication through the use of community languages . |
| 3 | In Canada , for example , the Auditor General Act of 1977 requires the Auditor General to report to the House of Commons when : ‘ money has been expended without due regard to economy or efficiency , or satisfactory procedures have not been established to measure and report the effectiveness of programs , where such procedures could appropriately and reasonably be implemented ’ . |
| 4 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 5 | As the students have not been introduced to prepayment at this stage in any detail it is better if the former assumption is made . |
| 6 | His interests have not been confined to chest disease and smoking , however : Professor Fletcher has been a tireless campaigner for better communications between patients and doctors . |
| 7 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 8 | True , it 's a waste of natural resources , but a single issue of some daily newspapers is a far greater ecological sacrifice than all the guitars that have ever been put to death on stage . |
| 9 | In addition to such major discoveries , many parts of which have not yet been published , other sources have gradually been coming to light or , after long suppression , are being circulated and studied . |
| 10 | The children have both been coming to ballet since they were three and they have loved it . ’ |
| 11 | The babies have traditionally been clubbed to death . |
| 12 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 13 | Most victims have been hung , sometimes publicly and in groups , but many have also been stoned to death , beheaded , or subjected to flogging and amputation before being executed . |
| 14 | The most common are anxiety and depression , but many more serious illnesses , including psychosis and schizophrenia , have also been attributed to food . |
| 15 | Pollutants such as nitrogen oxide , carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons have also been linked to hay fever , chest infection and childhood cancer . |
| 16 | All the bands have now been assigned to symmetry species , and all we need to do to complete the assignment is to associate each band with a particular form of vibration , best expressed in terms of local motions such as Ge-H bond stretching . |
| 17 | These have now been awarded to Alder Valley and as from April 27th Liphook will not be included in this route . |
| 18 | " I know they have n't been coming to class regularly . |
| 19 | On the same night , Carrick had a shock 3–2 victory over Fisherwick so that , while the unfortunate Bangor have definitely been relegated to Division 2 , Carrick are still in with a chance of catching CIYMS and avoiding the drop . |
| 20 | Major improvements have recently been made to visitor facilities , with the provision of a new shop and car park . |
| 21 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |