Example sentences of "been [verb] to [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the outbreak of the war the State had reorganised the railways into four companies where there had been 130 before ; nationally owned corporations had been created in broadcasting and air passenger transport ; a national grid for electricity supply had been created and a national supply industry organised ; agriculture had been rescued from the doldrums by regulation of its prices and quota systems ; while encouragement had been given to sometimes savage reductions of capacity in shipbuilding , textiles and mining . |
| 2 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 3 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 4 | Engineers were reported to suspect that one of the telescope 's two mirrors had been manufactured to slightly incorrect specifications , resulting in a distortion of images in the visible spectrum . |
| 5 | Conclusions about the lack of success with young offenders have been transferred to quite different groups such as the elderly or mentally handicapped as well as to children and young people in care generally . |
| 6 | The neutrons came from fusion reactions between particles that had been accelerated to very high energies by magnetic fields the scientists were using to contain the very hot ionised gases that were supposed to support fusion . |
| 7 | Their pectoral fins have been turned to yet more purposes . |
| 8 | We have seen an example of this general short-sightedness in the the cultural community 's reactions to the tragedy of Los Angeles , which like other conflicts today has been attributed to purely local factors . |
| 9 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 10 | And the C-based virtual object command language has been enlarged to over 500 commands , making the system more accessible to non-programmers . |
| 11 | Increasingly , they have been linked to more nefarious activities , from cheating on taxes to financing cocaine traffickers . |
| 12 | Andrews cost Saints £200,000 when he joined from Celtic three years ago but has been restricted to just five appearances as understudy to Tim Flowers and now wants to return to his native Midlands . |
| 13 | To cover such a broad topic in a single monograph , examples have been restricted to fairly simple compounds . |
| 14 | The ability to view infant care practices in any other light than whether they help the infant in his basic struggle to live is , then , something peculiar to our own century and , within this century , to the technologically advanced countries in which infant and child mortality rates have now been reduced to comparatively insignificant proportions . |
| 15 | Of course , pairs of probes that have been hybridised to mutually disjoint libraries can not can not be compared in this way . |
| 16 | As a result of these difficulties , the second approach was adopted of breaking bone in an artificial environment that simulated the stresses it may have been subjected to under natural conditions . |
| 17 | None the less , even in this period , the economy has been subjected to fairly regular cycles of minor expansions and recessions . |
| 18 | Promotional packs have been sent to over 100 organisations and a number of discussions have taken place with interested parties . |
| 19 | A highly-sensitive questionnaire has been circulated to almost all members of the southern defence forces . |
| 20 | The library of Virtual Clip Art — a supply of ready made objects , many of them with intelligence , textures , sound and dynamics — has also been doubled to over 200 objects . |