Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emeritus Professor Richard Gregory , founder of the famous Bristol Exploratory , has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society . |
| 2 | ( WES TO READ NEXT ) That 's the conclusion of a new report which says an area the size of four counties has been lost to development since the war . |
| 3 | The second man , 20 , has been charged with possession of cannabis and Ecstasy and has been bailed to Court on July 7 . |
| 4 | He has been chattered to death . |
| 5 | Mr Paul Boateng has been appointed to Labour 's front bench Treasury team , the first black MP to be given a front bench post in Parliament . |
| 6 | The uplift has been cut to length with a small hacksaw . |
| 7 | Here , though , is a very brief account of what has been done to date and what was found . |
| 8 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 9 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 10 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 11 | Once that subject has been done to death I daresay they will bring up the subject of his large family . |
| 12 | All the operating functions are now controlled by a subsea microprocessor , and the capability of the system has been increased to water depths of up to 2000 metres . |
| 13 | Is he aware that , in the case of telecoms , the price control formula started at retail prices index minus 3 and went on to RPI minus 4.5 and only recently has been increased to RPI minus 6.25 ? |
| 14 | One area of television where frequent reference has been made to homosexuality is in the arts programmes . |
| 15 | Table 2 shows for Lothian how the target breaks down by age group and what progress has been made to date . |
| 16 | An unsuccessful attempt has been made to logon to LIFESPAN . |
| 17 | Reference has been made to planning , that er the five to ten year cycle has er proved inadequate . |
| 18 | Would it be the , the will of the general assembly that we take a vote on the amendment that has been , the addendum that has been made to number two at this stage ? |
| 19 | Justine has been condemned to death . |
| 20 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 21 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 22 | THE IRA 's top ‘ spycatcher ’ has been sent to North Belfast in a desperate bid to halt the flow of top grade information going to the RUC , according to leading Republicans in the city . |
| 23 | A report has been sent to Crown prosecutors . |
| 24 | Jack Rogers , son of a land-owning family in East Anglia , is sturdily English ; Terence Adair ( inevitably nicknamed Paddy ) has been sent to sea to relieve the pressure on an impoverished though aristocratic Anglo-Irish family ; Alick Murray , the necessary counterbalance to the impetuous courage and reckless exuberance of the other two , is soberly and morally Scottish . |
| 25 | And tonight 's main news again , an Irish terrorist Patrick Kelly , has been sent to prison for twenty five years for plotting a bomb attack in Central London and attempting to murder a policeman who stopped the lorry packed with explosives . |
| 26 | But somebody has been sent to prison , they are the sort of person who you would think of , should never be sent to prison , somebody who has diddled his firm out of a couple of thousand . |
| 27 | A letter has been sent to Property Services , Lothian Region Department of Education by G. Lightheart requesting the erection of a safety perimeter fence . |
| 28 | The consultative document , which seeks views on the size criteria for companies qualifying for relief , the nature of the compilation report , who should provide it and whether it should be voluntary , has been sent to interest groups outside the profession , as well as to members . |
| 29 | A Cheltenham man has been sent to gaol for two months after breaking a policeman 's nose . |
| 30 | The way Easterbrook 's hypothesis has been applied to memory research is by making a distinction between central and peripheral information associated with the arousing item . |