Example sentences of "been [verb] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others . |
| 32 | The report had meanwhile been referred to the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 33 | A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period . |
| 34 | The case of Matthew Lucas who is trying to reopen relations with his estranged mother has been referred to the High Court . |
| 35 | But workers rejected that offer and the matter has now been referred to the national executive of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which is expected to rule on the dispute in the next few days . |
| 36 | The negotiations were extremely complex and detailed and the whole issue has been referred to the next stage of IBOA/Bank procedures which is an Independent Tribunal . |
| 37 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 38 | Erm the the public at large in Selby district have er been consulted to the same degree that that that all er districts were involved in the Greater York study . |
| 39 | False notions of rationality have been imputed to the Modern Movement in architecture , stressing economic and technological imperatives . |
| 40 | Two objections have been received to the proposed change . |
| 41 | The new 160 bed hospital wing has been completed to the highest standards . |
| 42 | Being in London , he could exploit both the court and the merchant community as patrons , and would have been exposed to the new developments in surveying in the published works of Leonard and Thomas Digges [ qq.v. ] and others . |
| 43 | She found that , the longer the rats had been exposed to the enriched environment , the less hippocampal LTP could subsequently be induced . |
| 44 | The largest group are patients with chronic schizophrenia , a group which has already been exposed to the private sector through a move to community care . |
| 45 | Though clearly , whatever the logic of the situation , Hitler could still rely upon substantial bonds of undying allegiance among his most loyal supporters , especially of course those who for years had been exposed to the full brunt of Party organization and indoctrination , there seems little doubt that the mass base of unquestioned trust in Hitler was already in 1942 beginning to give way . |
| 46 | Those who have been exposed to the confirmatory techniques of linear regression may recognize the analogous measures . |
| 47 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 48 | She had never before been exposed to the ruthless face of terrorism . |
| 49 | Because she had been exposed to the luxury end of the market , much of what she found at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ appalled her . |
| 50 | fil files reside ) , are visible from the second page of option 7.2.2 — View One User , and have been assigned to the relevant LIFESPAN users . |
| 51 | The markka , which had been pegged to the European currency unit ( ECU ) in June [ see p. 38297 ] , had been allowed to float temporarily by the Bank of Finland the previous day , after speculative pressure had caused short-term interest rates to rise to 30 per cent and resulted in a heavy capital outflow . |
| 52 | The move meant that the krone , which had been pegged to the European currency unit since October 1990 [ see p. 37782 ] , was effectively devalued by 5 per cent . |
| 53 | The chief reason is the Communauté Financière Africaine ( CFA ) franc , a currency shared by 13 French-speaking African countries , which has been pegged to the French franc , without being devalued , for an impressive 45 years . |
| 54 | The most dangerous aspect of rock ‘ n ’ roll has always been to succumb to the mythical lifestyle that leads down the path of destruction . |
| 55 | Only part of the duplicated region may have been transposed to the other chromosome arm . |
| 56 | Noah 's Flood had been confined to the Middle East . |
| 57 | Study of these various components of psychoticism as found in normal people has not been confined to the superficial level of observable traits , measured by questionnaires . |
| 58 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 59 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |
| 60 | But the corporation is ‘ delighted ’ that the government has recognised its claim for an extra VHF network for Radio I , which since 1967 has largely been confined to the medium wave band . |