Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 2 | Many a kite has been lost out to sea from a beach site , or into treetops from the local park , as the result of an over stressed and broken line . |
| 3 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 4 | erm package and it has been developed now to quite , quite a high level of sophistication |
| 5 | However , television is such a major part of people 's lives that simple human interaction has been cut down to a minimum . |
| 6 | It has been cut back to 700 shops , each with just six departments . |
| 7 | More recently , bus route 220 has been cut back to Tooting , leaving 64 alone to serve Mitcham and Croydon . |
| 8 | The snow had drifted deep over the path that has been carved down to the chasm and we soon lost it , progressing by kicking steps into the hard snow . |
| 9 | This means it has been grown slowly to full maturity , fattened on food containing no animal protein and at least 70 per cent cereal , and reared without the use of any antibiotics or growth-promoting additives . |
| 10 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 11 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 12 | ’ The other ship , ’ Posi said , confirming my thought as it formed , ’ has been locked on to our energy-field infrapattern , by means of the advanced Intelloid that controls it . ’ |
| 13 | The Jovian atmosphere has been observed down to about the 1 bar altitude , and throughout this region the predominant motion is east-west . |
| 14 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 15 | Manufacturing industry is now expected to grow by 1.6 per cent this year , against only 0.5 per cent last November , but the forecast for 1994 has been revised down to 2.8 per cent from 3.1 per cent . |
| 16 | The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity . |
| 17 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 18 | Erm , I think we ought to make it very clear again , that we can now trace calls , and er , I hope the press are noting that and making as much as they can of it , because that 's the sort of thing that helps to remove malicious calls , which go which cost a lot of money , and a lot of time , and also put somebody else 's life in danger when an appliance has been called out to something that it 's not required for . |
| 19 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 20 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 21 | Reference has been made above to unlawful sexual intercourse . |
| 22 | Reference has been made above to citation peaks — the period during which the largest number of citations is recorded . |
| 23 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |
| 24 | Reference has been made elsewhere to the early county histories written in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , sometimes by gentlemen in the priesthood . |
| 25 | Reference has been made today to the rights of victims . |
| 26 | Reference has been made already to the debilitating effect of prolonged public criticism upon the morale of teachers and the potential damage it can have for educational standards . |
| 27 | A NATIONAL treasure has been tracked down to a German museum after it was allegedly stolen by a man using a metal detector . |
| 28 | The old , inimical Adam has been beaten back to such seedy redoubts . |
| 29 | The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) . |
| 30 | A document has been drawn up , and has been sent here to me for consideration . |