Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] [verb] been " in BNC.

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1 After losses to follow-up had been accounted for , 90% of patients were alive after 3 months , 75% after 12 months , and 62% after 24 months .
2 The Councillor contended that the Committee had been overinfluenced by the need to make economies and had not given enough consideration to the local view , shown in letters and at a local meeting at which opposition to closure had been unanimous .
3 No one could doubt that the application of the academic mind to literature has been salutary in bringing rigour and discipline into criticism : cleaner texts , scholarly annotations , precise analysis , intelligent — even transforming — interpretations and readings ; and an intolerance for woolly emotional responses , vague inflated recommendations , and subjective wallowings of all kinds .
4 However , Article 15 specified slightly increased levels of HLCAs because the conversion rate of European Currency Units to Sterling has been altered a little and it is recommended that any enhanced payments should be linked solely to conservation undertakings and be re-imbursed by the EEC .
5 Taking the 90 odd old cars to India has been the beauty and the beast of the London to Sydney Marathon .
6 The importance of loss and low self-esteem to depression has been accepted by many .
7 The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 .
8 The sale of David Batty has at least made room for the introduction of Rocky ( something which I would like to have seen earlier given the injury problems of Strach ) and his performances to date have been good although showing signs of the years lay off .
9 Direct participation by the state in the allocation of savings to industry has been important in both qualitative and quantitative senses .
10 Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time .
11 Visits made by inspectors to schools have been praised by school personnel in many instances for the value of the advice , recognition of good practice and the consequent professional support given .
12 To my dismay , the whole entrance to Clonmacnoise had been concreted over in a multi-lane car park that was almost totally empty .
13 Chronic ethanol administration to rodents has been shown to increase the cholesteryl ester content and to decrease the microviscosity of hepatic plasma membranes .
14 ( On April 3 the Commission had already announced the provision of ECU5,000,000 in emergency aid to Kurdish refugees within Iraq , and EC humanitarian aid to Iraq had been agreed on March 25 — see p. 38083 .
15 On Feb. 9 the US administration confirmed that some US$107,000,000 of US aid to Jordan had been placed under review .
16 Now , like all revolutionaries , its earliest protagonists possessed a certain prophetic fervour and the time when this fervour was at its height coincided with a time when , following independence , aid to Africa had been vastly increased , with the usual mixed motives .
17 Some US$50,000,000 in aid to UNITA had been budgeted by the US Congress for the present fiscal year .
18 Some US$570 million in military aid to Pakistan had been cut off since 1990 under US legislation requiring such a cut-off unless the President certified to Congress that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] .
19 Our aid to Kenya has been well used in helping to improve living standards and prospects for the poorest .
20 During those talks , Mr Shevardnadze said all military aid to Nicaragua has been frozen since the beginning of the year , but that weapons may still be reaching Nicaragua from Cuba .
21 On the other hand , the question of aid to Malta had been decided beforehand , and did go through the National Assembly .
22 Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping .
23 as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours .
24 But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension .
25 The main barriers to growth have been the complexity of using the systems , their inability to handle anything but the simplest graphics , the high cost of connect-time charging and poor publishing decisions about which databases to offer online .
26 Not surprisingly , these developments have been most widely exploited among the developed countries where the barriers to integration have been least .
27 Furthermore , most of the work to date has been a drive to demonstrate the technology rather than a response to demand from users .
28 Most of their work to date has been with blue-chip companies , but they have also handled assignments from leading merchant banks and fashion retail houses .
29 The cost of the work to date has been about £150 million .
30 It was possible that his return to Moila had been sparked by the notice in the papers of Mrs Hamilton 's death .
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