Example sentences of "been [verb] to [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This paper had been given to all councillors by an official of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 2 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 3 | After the glue has been applied to both edges of each segment and they are assembled , the banding clamp is dropped down over the assembly and tightened until the joints close up tightly . |
| 4 | In the UK the rubella vaccine has been offered to all girls in early adolescence and to non-pregnant women of child-bearing age who are found to be serologically negative for this antigen but with the use of the new measles/mumps/rubella ( MMR ) vaccine to small children ( 1988 ) , this will eventually become unnecessary . |
| 5 | It is not a colour-marking breed , but has been exported to several countries in Europe , North America and Australasia . |
| 6 | The country has been closed to all outsiders for almost 50 years , under a totalitarian dictatorship , the hardest regime in the world , shocking even hardline communists of the former Soviet bloc . |
| 7 | The site has been known to many antiquaries from the eighteenth century onwards ; Gordon recorded that the circuit of the walls was still conspicuous , a description which conflicts with the almost contemporary report of that other noted antiquarian of Hadrian 's Wall , John Horsley , who wrote that the Roman site was almost entirely levelled and under the plough . |
| 8 | Over recent years the most popular explanation of Britain 's comparatively weak economic performance — and one which focuses mainly on the period of rapid decline since 1960 — has been that insufficient resources have been devoted to those parts of the economy which produce a ‘ marketable output ’ [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 9 | Water had been brought to several greens at a cost of £91 , partly offset by £64 donated by members , thus suggesting the failure of the earlier water supply scheme . |
| 10 | They claimed the Goths who had settled along the Vistula and in the Ukraine as the founders of the Polish state , saying that rule and order had been brought to these lands over the heads of the drunken , idolatrous and stupid Polish peasantry . |
| 11 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 12 | The chairman of the action group has already met with Malcolm Rifkind , Secretary of State for Scotland , pamphlets have been issued to all houses in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains , another public meeting will be called and a plea has been made for wholehearted support by writing letters of objection . |
| 13 | A guidance note on its use has been issued to all members of academic and academic-related staff . |
| 14 | They discovered a car battery had been wired to several bottles of petrol . |
| 15 | Some tracks are only short-cuts where cycles have been directed to former walkways in order to improve the directness of their journeys . |
| 16 | One thousand buildings have been constructed to these standards at costs of one per cent more but with a resulting 40 per cent cut in heating bills . |
| 17 | Copies of my announcements have been circulated to all members of the Council on the blue seats . |