Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the art treasures had long since been taken to Moscow , many of the palaces were in ruins after the fearful fighting between the Russians and the Germans . |
| 2 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 3 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 4 | Harris has argued that the value of life can only sensibly be taken to be that value that those alive place on their lives . |
| 5 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 6 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 7 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 8 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 9 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 10 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 11 | I understand that these applications have only just been submitted to Midlothian District Council as the local planning authority and I have to advise you that it would not be appropriate for Regional Council officials to comment publicly at this stage . |
| 12 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 13 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 14 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 15 | Its future depends on a different kind of alliance with the class that created it who wo n't for much longer be reduced to the status of clients dependent on the whim of their political godfathers . |
| 16 | Stretches of language treated only formally are referred to as text . |
| 17 | In the case of L Rowland and Co ( Retail ) Ltd , the High Court found that the period of time for which the clock stops during an enquiry by Customs can only reasonably be limited to the period from when the local office initiates the enquiry with the trader to the day when a satisfactory answer is given by the trader . |
| 18 | The Royal Year and Christmas numbers of the ILN have always been successful extra issues each year , and they will henceforth both be sent to subscribers , giving them in total six issues of the ILN each year . |
| 19 | Not all of this man 's behaviour has yet been revealed , of course , but I can assure you that there is one incident to come which in itself justifies almost any degree of the pain that has so far been applied to his brain and his skin and his bones . |
| 20 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 21 | Quality Circles have received a lot of attention in the media over the last three years but , in general , studies of Circles have so far been limited to subjective analysis by interested parties . |
| 22 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 23 | A number of other models have been suggested for the development of scientific knowledge , but these models are measuring the concomitants of scientific growth — the manpower , costs , publications , citations , etc — and none has so far been developed to fully describe the growth of knowledge itself , although Goffman 's work seems to have some predictive value . |
| 24 | On May 29 the government had complained that only 170 firms had so far been transferred to the private sector . |
| 25 | The Algerian League of Human Rights on July 8 criticized the use of military tribunals , prompting the military authorities the following day to release figures : 2,046 people remained in detention , of whom 262 had so far been consigned to six internment camps . |
| 26 | Even if the contribution of bronchial asthma to cause of death is interpreted generously — for example , part I of the death certificate states death from asthma and part II states chronic obstructive airways disease — only 63 of 100 deaths have so far been found to be attributable to asthma . |
| 27 | Prizes for painting have so far been awarded to de Kooning and Hockney ( jointly ) , to Tàpies , Balthus and this year to Soulages ; in sculpture Mastroianni , Pomodoro , Chillida and this year Caro ( did Signor Fanfani think Caro a third Italian , I wonder ? ) . |
| 28 | One by one , the blooms Luke Hunter had sent her so unthinkingly were reduced to a green herbal mulch and flushed down the drain . |
| 29 | ‘ Much here is owed to Holbein engraving , ’ said the guide , to show off her knowledge . |
| 30 | Those who perform sufficiently well are admitted to the third and fourth years of the History honours programme . |