Example sentences of "has [adv] [been] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Its use has thus been extended to experiments on the essentially non-linear developments further downstream .
2 This could well explain the fact that the trend since 1970 towards deferring first births has largely been confined to women with more education ( see Joshi , 1985 ) .
3 He is working in an expansive form : the field of panoramic realism which , since the 19th century , has largely been left to writers of commercial fiction .
4 For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that the doctrine of fundamental breach , as a rule of law , has finally been laid to rest by Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , and it would now appear that fundamental breach is relevant only as a factor to be considered in the construction of the contract .
5 From the records of the Crown Court , Bradford , comes news that Mr D BOWIE has finally been brought to book for his current misdemeanours .
6 Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures .
7 Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission .
8 Developed for MVS mainframes , Huron has already been ported to Intel 80486 machines , with an IBM RS/6000 version due in the first half of this year .
9 Will the right hon. Gentleman stop juggling and manipulating figures and pretending that large-scale assistance has already been given to Lanarkshire ?
10 But he warned : ‘ Nigel has already been compared to Kenny Dalglish and I think that 's a bit unfair on him and on the fans .
11 This will emable 35mm film to be used together with video , sound and animation in many sorts of software.The Photo-CD technology has already been licensed to Fuji and Agfa .
12 A third of this accommodation has already been let to Deminex and we have also extended and upgraded our premises at East Tullos at a cost of £500,000 to support a new long-term contract with Enterprise Oil .
13 The show has already been sold to Sky Television , a couple of cable networks and a European Satellite channel .
14 ISOTOPIC heterogeneity in ocean island basalts has generally been ascribed to processes related to the long-term cycling of mantle material .
15 In 1736 Noon published another anonymous tract which has always been attributed to Bayes — An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions , and a Defence of the Mathematicians against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst .
16 Mr. Andrew has always been devoted to Kate , Mr. Mottram , but I could n't say the same about her .
17 Much language study , and a good deal of language teaching , has always been devoted to sentences .
18 Whereas the support the farmers received right , has always been coupled to production , so the more they produce , the more support they get , the higher , the higher their incomes .
19 Civil mobile systems are at an early stage of development but a low power band has been proposed , centred on 3.455GHz , and consideration has also been given to operation of future land mobile systems around 3.4GHz .
20 This woman works at a Garrimpo and has also been exposed to mercury vapour .
21 Clegg 's explanatory approach , relating differences in trade union behaviour to variations in the dimensions of collective bargaining , is penetrating and wide-ranging in its integrating of contemporary international evidence and historical determinants , but it has also been subjected to criticism .
22 While a reasonable level of polyunsaturates have been shown to lower harmful cholesterol levels in the blood , an excess of polyunsaturates has also been linked to tumours in rats , though no trials have proved a similar link in humans .
23 The land has also been laid to lawn .
24 Yet one time evangelist of LSD , Timothy Leary , has also been drawn to VR .
25 It has also been exported to Argentina , Uruguay , the USA , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Germany and , in surprisingly large numbers , to Hungary , where in one herd alone there are 800 pure or graded-up polled Lincoln cows at Szentes , near the Romanian border .
26 It is , in fact , so easy a target that scholars reacting against it have constructed a revised view that has also been driven to excess .
27 In algebra they developed a concept of polynomials and pioneered an algebraic geometry that has traditionally been ascribed to Descartes .
28 In the case of hominids , this has traditionally been attributed to selection for hunting efficiency in the Pliocene .
29 In other words , the title ‘ key settlement policy ’ has often been lent to programmes devised only on very narrow cost or administrative criteria .
30 This has often been attributed to changes in the characteristics of the population studied .
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