Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to one [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another .
2 A Medieval campanile has been added to one end of the Mausoleum and a Choir at the other .
3 An environmental health officer from Liverpool City Council visited the company 's bakery in Lorenzo Drive , West Derby , and found insects could get into the building through ‘ voids ’ around the pipework , and an insect screen had been nudged to one side .
4 But currency stabilisation has been pushed to one side for another reason as well .
5 Money is tight and fashion a luxury that has , by many , been pushed to one side .
6 The carts had been moved to one side , and now slaves were attaching torches to the arched wooden frames .
7 The promises to cut taxes had been brushed to one side , but it was unlikely that the government would wish to fight the next election against a background of undertakings that would entail their actually being increased .
8 Scepticism about the value of his word has been laid to one side ; western governments want a respectable , and reasonably fast , way out for their troops in Kurdistan .
9 But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another .
10 A Hungarian with relatives employed at a Timisoara hospital told Budapest radio that at least 250 bodies had been admitted to one hospital and that the death figure was bound to be higher .
11 I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard .
12 Quite naturally , the islanders wondered if harmonious timber wolf existence included picking off one or two tasty schoolchildren as a light snack between main meals of venison , and strangely the idea has been put to one side for the moment .
13 So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that .
14 There were even suggestions that some MPs had been taken to one side and the name of their girlfriends ‘ mentioned in a threatening manner ’ .
15 The drawing suggests how a great deal of attention has been paid to one area but other areas have been ignored .
16 But the law has been changed to one point six so we must accept that .
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