Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to [noun] and " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And the arms had been crushed to splinters and sawdust . |
| 2 | Instead , it can be argued that more attention should have been given to services and small-scale manufacturing . |
| 3 | In the 1987 general election only 1.4% of the second votes did not count , having been given to minute and therefore eliminated parties . |
| 4 | A 12-week course on social security , employment and money advice has been given to 15- and 16-year-old pupils . |
| 5 | The new study , carried out by the Cancer Research Campaign 's Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University , found no difference in cancer rates between children whose fathers had been exposed to radiation and those whose fathers had not . |
| 6 | I was tempted when examining these drawings to propose a hypothesis that some of these artists had been attracted to formalism and minimalism because of its supposed neutrality ; the absent author was , after all , without gender . |
| 7 | The movement towards organic production has not been confined to fruit and vegetables . |
| 8 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Presumably he did n't rate the Stalinvast operation as requiring really major surgery — even though thirty hive cities had been devastated to date and several totally destroyed . |
| 11 | The mother , aged 22 , of Wolverhampton , had been stabbed to death and her husband , aged 30 , was hanging by an electric cable from a loft beam . |
| 12 | By July an outline agreement had been presented to Law and Lloyd George , by which 150 seats were allocated to Coalition Liberals , but no decision of principle was taken . |
| 13 | Here , though , is a very brief account of what has been done to date and what was found . |
| 14 | The use of very quiet sustained chords on muted trombones has not yet , however , been done to death and is recommended as a luxury in which the orchestrator might very occasionally indulge . |
| 15 | Early in the summer of 1946 Hellen had been transferred to Toronto and I was becoming more and more disenchanted with the CBC . |
| 16 | A week after the affairs of the Dove Trust had been transferred to Littlejohn and Partners ( Bermuda ) , Adam surprised Elinor with a trip to Saracen for the weekend . |
| 17 | Some 70,000 such licenses have been granted to companies and individuals ranging from farmers to brewers . |
| 18 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 19 | In 1462 their land in Westmorland , including Brougham and Appleby , had been granted to Warwick and the Yorkshire estates to William Stanley . |
| 20 | Most of the men who had not joined the partisans had been deported to Germany and most of the young women had been sent to work in factories in the Reich . |
| 21 | Disclose the accounting policies that have been applied to stocks and long-term contracts , in particular the method of ascertaining turnover and attributable profit . |
| 22 | Introductory sales have been made to Poland and Hungary which gives us our first opening into Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | Chris Morris , the joint receiver at Touche Ross , said that some payments had been made to employees and priority creditors — essentially the banks — but said the chances of ordinary creditors receiving anything was ‘ only around half a per cent ’ . |
| 24 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 25 | Since the date of acquisition , the Warwick factory has been closed and looms have been moved to Elderslie and Runcorn . |
| 26 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 27 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 28 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 29 | On 1 May 1956 this branch finally closed , having been opened to passenger and freight traffic in 1863 . |
| 30 | Across at Solomon 's , 23/592 , the design of c.1730 has been attributed to Kaňka and the Madonna is from the workshop of M. B. Braun . |