Example sentences of "have be [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Sumerian burial in northern Iraq has been dated to about 2000 BC . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough midfield player Andy Peake has been recalled to today 's team with Mark Proctor expected to be on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 3 | In a prehistoric population in North America the time when marked tooth decay ( dental caries ) set in has been pinpointed to around 1150 AD . |
| 4 | The number of sets in the Seamer area has been cut to about 20 , a quarter of the total that existed in his youth , says the amiable grandfather . |
| 5 | And living organisms themselves constantly change their environment , altering its chemical composition by eating , breathing , excreting ; altering its geography by building and destroying ( this relatively obvious concept has been raised to almost metaphysical status by James Lovelock and his devotees as the grandiosely named Gaia hypothesis ) . |
| 6 | Interestingly , the former is now given Very Difficult in the guidebook while the latter has been raised to Hard Very Severe . |
| 7 | Inexplicably , Hughes has been compared to both Tommy Cooper and Samuel Beckett . |
| 8 | Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since . |
| 9 | Two random facts : by the age of 16 , the average North American youth has been exposed to more than 300,000 television commercials ; and the Soviet Union is now selling advertising slots on cosmonaut suits and space ships ! |
| 10 | A premise is that the infant has been exposed to virtually all possible feelings by the time he or she goes to school . |
| 11 | The rich sonority of the lower register , in particular , has been exploited to both sinister and tranquil effect from Mahler , Stravinsky , and Prokofiev , to composers of the present day . |
| 12 | This has been referred to previously in the text , but there are two additional points to note . |
| 13 | This has been referred to frequently and the panel meetings where I 've been present erm the authority has agreed that Council and what it 's doing is to using a review of the District Planning Procedure is going to list this entire process working in partnership with Hertfordshire 's own Organisation , County Council , the department of transport , and other relevant erm national and local government Organisations as well as of course with and are the owners of the site . |
| 14 | One , the theory/practice tension , has been referred to already . |
| 15 | I think just to conclude the the engine of growth argument , erm , has obviously been raised in relation to other new settlements , notably Cambridge and and this has been referred to already , erm the situation in Cambridge is different to York in in that the level of growth that 's that 's anticipated for that city is is is significantly higher , and the new settlement erm proposals there have been considered in in that regard and and just for the record C P R E have supported the the new settlement in that particular location , but it does seem to me that the returning to your basic point , that that erm if one applies those circumstances in Nor North Yorkshire it does fly in the face of of established policy in the structure plan , and the overriding er policy is is one of restraint in what is is considered to be one of the country 's most sensitive environmental areas , thank you . |
| 16 | We are also embarking on vitally important work on the new charity law legislation which has been referred to already , on local government legislation , in relation to both the structure of local government and the new council tax system . |
| 17 | The archosaurs had thus acquired an intermediate position , what has been referred to as ‘ semi-erect ’ , particularly in those immediately ancestral to the dinosaur . |
| 18 | No wonder that the whole process has been referred to as short or medium-term dumping . |
| 19 | Even in the 1988 legislation , RE has been referred to as " basic " , although in most people 's minds any substance to that interpretation has long since evaporated . |
| 20 | The report has been referred to twice as the County Council report . |
| 21 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 22 | The ideal which has been referred to more than once in earlier chapters is that heads , other teachers , governors , parents and non-teaching staff should combine their efforts in some form of corporate management . |
| 23 | Initially , I want to consider environmental impact assessments from a slightly different perspective from that which has been referred to so far . |
| 24 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 25 | For example , the brutal effect of Example 141(c) can be changed considerably if we dispose the vertical components of each chord differently : Here , the harshness of the original , with its dissonant 2nds and 7ths , has been converted to much less discordant chord-successions . |
| 26 | The Flex Toothbrush has a unique flexible neck which has been created to actually absorb any excessive pressure during brushing which can help to avoid gum damage . |
| 27 | That surely has been testified to today when the very convenor of the panel on doctrine admits that he does n't want the statements to be too clear so that they can be understood and used by people of radically different persuasions . |
| 28 | Instead of conventional peeling medications such as resorcinol or benzoylperoxide , some dermatologists are now prescribing a more powerful peeling medication based on retinoic acid , a synthetic derivative of vitamin A. This ingredient has been discovered to also have the effect of making skin look younger ; extensive testing is being carried out . |
| 29 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 30 | Drinking too much alcohol has been linked to about 3% of cancers , specially those of the mouth , voice-box , gullet and liver . |