Example sentences of "been [verb] to [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 2 | The crammed loose boxes to his right seemed more menacing , as though the ugliest objects had been banished to this unvisited dungeon . |
| 3 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ? |
| 5 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 6 | Matey , like Dr Neil , thought that McAllister might have been spoiled and pampered in her old life , but she had certainly been exposed to many good principles of conduct , even if she was headstrong . |
| 7 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 8 | Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined . |
| 9 | There is also the problem , common to courses with high-recurrent frequency , that the guide does not remember exactly what has been said to each particular group . |
| 10 | The Birmingham School approach has since been applied to many different discourse types : for example , medical consultations ( Coulthard and Montgomery 1981b ) and TV quiz shows ( Berry 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
| 12 | Dancad has recently been upgraded to this massive version making it the most comprehensive CAD package available through shareware . |
| 13 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |
| 14 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 15 | Though custodianship has not been used to any appreciable extent yet , the same arguments would apply as with long-term fostering . |
| 16 | By then , Charisma , and the rights to Malcolm McLaren , had been sold to another British record company . |
| 17 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |
| 18 | However , the fact that these works had not been shown to any Russian museum curators caused considerable trouble for the organisers . |
| 19 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 20 | What was it that had been condemned to this total destruction ? |
| 21 | And in the era of John Major 's classlessness , it was not wise of Waldegrave in complimenting the new Speaker to speak of his ancestors having been dragged to that very chair at the time of the Black Death . |
| 22 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 23 | What 've you been doing to this poor soul ? |
| 24 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 25 | His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | By the turn of the year , Ellison , who had been linked to some big-name clubs , was looking jaded . |
| 28 | Time is limited and the pilot has therefore been restricted to those centrally-funded institutions which have been audited ( either by CNAA ) or by degree-awarding institution ) and which also have experience of offering SCOTVEC awards . |
| 29 | If speculation had been restricted to these traditional fields then the effect on the overall price level would probably have been relatively insignificant , since the feed-through effects to other goods would have been modest . |
| 30 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |