Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In John Hart 's case , his appeal to the House of Lords against the decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal would have been dismissed by four to one , had proceedings as related in Hansard not been allowed as evidence . |
| 2 | In little over a year since the British government gave its approval to CB , the Home Office has been inundated with six to eight thousand complaints of interference each month . |
| 3 | The workforce has been slashed from 410,000 to below 300,000 . |
| 4 | Their recent odds have been slashed from 5-2 to 7-4 and then 6-4 yesterday . |
| 5 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
| 6 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
| 7 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 8 | This has proved so popular that arrangements have been made for this to be included in the admission price to the Centre . |
| 9 | Many translations have been made from direct to jungle English as warnings to writers of reports . |
| 10 | Charlemagne , a little book which has been written for 12 to 16 year olds ( but suitable for all ages ) would make an ideal present . |
| 11 | This outline shows class 4 to be vacant , linguistics having been moved from 4 to 8 in 1963 to make room for future developments . |
| 12 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 13 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
| 14 | In general , whereas previously a site of a new plant could have been selected in three to six months , it may now take two or more years . |
| 15 | In the 1991 Chairman 's report it made clear the fact that the Buckfastleigh Branch having been leased in 1991 to the South Devon Railway Trust , showed only the fare income for the Paignton branch , hence a fall in turnover from the 1990 season , which included the fare income from the Buckfastleigh branch . |
| 16 | The depletion rate over the US has been measured at 4 to 5 per cent since 1978 . |
| 17 | English law , for example , provides an offence of rape and attempted rape on the one hand with maximum penalties of life imprisonment , and indecent assault on the other , with a maximum penalty which has recently been raised from two to ten years ’ imprisonment . |
| 18 | The marginal interest rate had early on Nov. 19 been raised from 11.5 to 20 per cent , in an attempt to defend the krona , but cut again to 12.5 per cent by the end of the day , by which time the krona had lost around 9 per cent of its value against the deutschmark . |
| 19 | The target for electricity generated by combined heat and power ( CHP ) schemes has been raised from 4,000 to 5,000 megawatts . |
| 20 | Although in Minister for Arts , Heritage and Environment v. Peko-Wallsend the treaty had been entered into prior to the listing of Kakadu , in Re Ditford , ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation the case was cited as authority for the proposition that Australian courts have disclaimed entitlement to adjudicate upon decisions by the executive concerning the exercise of its treaty-making power . |
| 21 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 22 | Throughout the period the balance of payments had improved noticeably , the government 's deficit had been reduced by 1970 to only 15 per cent of current government revenue , investment in real terms was rising and the rate of inflation averaged between 25–30 per cent per annum . |
| 23 | Mean speeds have been reduced from 27 to 22 km/h ( a 20 per cent fall ) , with the most effective measures proving to be road-humps ( less than 60 metres apart ) and mini-roundabouts . |
| 24 | The volume of government activity has therefore become a passive residual in a planning cycle that has been reduced from five to three years . |
| 25 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |
| 26 | It has been reduced from six to five issues a week . |
| 27 | The reversionary or annual bonuses paid on the bonuses already declared on with-profits endowments have been reduced from 7 to 5 per cent — although the bonus on the benefit assured remains at 3 per cent . |
| 28 | An offer had been made previously , whereby the waiting period would have been reduced from 18 to 12 months but the initial payment held at 54 per cent for a year . |
| 29 | Within Dagenham 's body and assembly plants , the number of managerial layers has been reduced from eight to five with the creation of four ‘ mini plants ’ and the decentralization of finance and quality-assurance activities ( British Institute of Management , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |