Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 2 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 3 | In the past she had been obliged to other people , William included , and it was n't good for the character . |
| 4 | The application had been subject to long and disapproving scrutiny at Coutts . |
| 5 | It was certainly a Northumbrian claim , however , that the Scots as well as the Picts had been subject to Northumbrian domination . |
| 6 | He claimed that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi opponents of the regime had been subject to arbitrary detention , torture , execution and disappearances . |
| 7 | The report also stated that there were longstanding moves to purchase at least three 400-600-megawatt reactors from the former Soviet Union , but that these had been subject to numerous delays . |
| 8 | The MRF represented the interests of Bulgaria 's Turkish minority and Islamicized Bulgarians , who had been subject to widespread discrimination [ see pp. 36747 ; 36662 ; 36771 ] . |
| 9 | Its 99 articles had been subject to public scrutiny since January and the final endorsement of each one provoked lengthy and often heated exchanges among CNU representatives . |
| 10 | As far back as the 1690s , with the establishment of the Society for the Reformation of Manners in London and the provinces , moral transgressors , including violators of the Sabbath , profane swearers , prostitutes , keepers of bawdy houses , actors in indecent plays and buggers , had been subject to sustained efforts at moral control , while public officials in the royal court encouraged the societies as an important contribution to the woefully inadequate police . |
| 11 | For years , he had been prone to recurring attacks of Sickle Cell Anaemia , a rare and debilitating blood disorder that eventually triggered a premature heart attack . |
| 12 | On the question of whether as adviser he had been privy to confidential information , he said : ‘ Any ( management ) buyout is party to information other buyers wo n't have . ’ |
| 13 | The royal court in Egypt was then one of the most cosmopolitan in the work ; Fawzia was sophisticated and had been accustomed to great luxury and pampering , no least from her doting brother . |
| 14 | Her own country , France , had been accustomed to regular taxation since the fourteenth century ; but if she was seeking to invoke this model , she might have remembered that there the nobles were exempt from taxation . |
| 15 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 16 | Paige had been happy to house-sit for him until a relative could arrive , and in the meantime she had done a little searching around of her own in the markets . |