Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 2 | Since 1977/8 , funding for hospital and community health services ( about £9 milliards for England alone in 1985/6 ) has been determined according to a formula named after the acronym of the Resource Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) , which had the avowed aim of eventually achieving ‘ equal opportunity of access to health care for people at equal risk ’ ( DHSS , 1976b ) . |
| 3 | When this operation has been done according to the conventional wisdom you then decide whether you like where you are apparently going to end up . |
| 4 | Just as the colonized has been constructed according to the terms of the colonizer 's own self-image , as the ‘ self-consolidating other ’ , so Europe |
| 5 | This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) . |
| 6 | In more remote areas , where the NO x concentration can be extremely low , ozone destruction has been reported owing to photolysis by near ultraviolet light . |
| 7 | His thesis that the political coalition against Iraq has been assembled according to new precepts , and heralds the emergence of a new power structure , is entirely wrong . |
| 8 | What has also survived , at least in part , is a landscape which has been moulded according to those beliefs . |
| 9 | Millionaire financier , Sir Jack Lyons has been spared going to prison after a court heard that a jail sentence could kill him ; the judge , Mr Justice Henry said he accepted the businessman was seriously ill . |
| 10 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 11 | However , the areas they inherit will have been developed according to policies very different from those supported by the local council , which is after all the elected body . |
| 12 | Of course , these children might have been interpreted according to overly lax canons — compare our discussion of chimp gesture above . |
| 13 | The worst scarcity was in coal , some forty per cent of French production having been lost owing to the German invasion of the Lille area , and the population shuddered at the approach of each winter . |
| 14 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 15 | The idea that living organisms had been structured according to a divine plan , transparent to the human mind , still featured in the work of eminent naturalists . |
| 16 | He argued that the economic , political , ethical , legal , aesthetic , and erotic value spheres , which previously had been structured according to a unifying principle of the world religions and later of Enlightenment rationalism , now began to march to the beat of different drums ( Whimster and Lash 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it was impossible to ignore the fact that the overall percentage of registered electors voting in favour , at 64.51 per cent in Latvia and 64.49 per cent in Estonia , fell short of the two-thirds majority which would have meant victory if the referendums had been held according to the April 1990 USSR legislation on the secession of a republic [ see pp. 37361-62 ] . |
| 18 | Only 39 per cent had been reported missing to the police . |
| 19 | The complexity and inter-relatedness of urban problems had been stressed , existing policies had been evaluated and a series of policy modifications had been proposed relating to the economy , housing , population dispersal , urban administration , and so on . |
| 20 | A change of greenbelt status , and changes to a proposed greenbelt boundary variously affecting the combined area known for the purposes of this enquiry as D thirty nine and D forty , north of Skelton Village , have been proposed in the deposit copies , and in the desire to change proposed by the county and local planning authorities , and sundry valid representations have been lodged relating to the exclusion of all or parts of the area of the greenbelt . |
| 21 | Lessons have been analysed according to descriptive schemes of different sorts based on the abstraction of what the researchers have considered to be the most salient or significant features of classroom behaviour . |
| 22 | This is shown most dramatically by the results of studies in which , using exactly the same stimulus material , opposite field advantages have been obtained according to the task requirements ( Klatzky , 1972 ; Seamon and Gazzaniga , 1973 ; Robertshaw and Sheldon , 1976 ; Niederbuhl and Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Many of us can quote Romans 8:28 : ‘ In all things God works for the good of those who love him , who have been called according to his purpose . ’ |
| 24 | The facilities management operator will confirm that jobs have been run according to the schedule in the Weekly Service Report . |
| 25 | Furthermore , serial results in individual patients at successive time points have been evaluated according to the criteria proposed by Presant et al for assessing palliative response by quality of life ( box ) . |
| 26 | These values have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 27 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 28 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro , ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not . |
| 30 | However , coastal environments have been classified according to wave energy by Davies ( 1973 ) and this can assist a more meaningful correlation between wave type and coastal morphology . |