Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , the zones have not created industrial dereliction , and properties vacated by tenants moving to the zones have been re-occupied through normal filtering processes . |
| 2 | This leads to the futures price being more volatile than the cash index . |
| 3 | By agreement between Mr Lyle and the Trust , extra opening hours and free admission to the gardens have been enjoyed by Trust members for some years . |
| 4 | The NMGC 's archives at Rugby have been inspected and are extensive ; access to the archives has been successfully negotiated . |
| 5 | Mass reaction to the royals has been muted and distracted . |
| 6 | Notes : Adjustments to the figures have been made for the purpose of comparison where appropriate . |
| 7 | Once general agreement to the models had been obtained , it was then necessary to consider how they could help in providing practical advice about the effect on College structures . |
| 8 | Key to the improvements has been the reduction of bureaucracy and paperwork previously required for each truck load . |
| 9 | There is no way in which the time of occurrence of an experience can be related to the time of occurrence of a physical event without assuming answers to the questions Libet is asking . |
| 10 | One girl objected that practising getting the ‘ wrong answer ’ to the questions posed was rather silly . |
| 11 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 12 | Clearly , the presentation of the Alliance cause to the electors had been a failure . |
| 13 | Another early problem was to uncurl a twist in the fuselage due to the skins having been removed without the airframe being placed in a jig . |
| 14 | From the start , their approach to the matches had been exciting with a dazzling display of flair from the batsmen . |
| 15 | The damage was double : the exposure to the flames had been long enough to cause severe burns to his face , head and hands ; worse , he had been forced , as the flames consumed the oxygen , to inhale volatile fuel and smoke , both of which critically affected his lungs and blood . |
| 16 | No documentation relating to the changes has been produced , and no guidance on their potential effects appears to have been sought from the designers of the system . |
| 17 | All who have contributed to the notes have been directly involved in sailing , either as helpers or as disabled sailors for a number of years . |
| 18 | Claims for articles damaged but repairable , are paid on the basis of the repair cost , subject to the sums insured being adequate . |
| 19 | For simplicity in deriving the analytical results sinusoidal approximations to the characteristics have been used , but nevertheless the general conclusions are valid in most cases . |
| 20 | To the average investor risk is the loss of capital value whereas to the academics risk is calculation of a deviation from an index . ’ |
| 21 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 22 | Amid criticism that the government 's reactions to the troubles had been slow and their position confused and biased , Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican-Voiculescu , who was leading compromise talks between the HDUR and the UVR on March 22 , assured crowds in Tirgu Mures that the government 's commission of inquiry would be objective but would seek the " resolute " punishment of those found guilty of instigating the unrest . |
| 23 | The British consul in Israel maintained that Hurd 's statements to the politicians had been misunderstood , that the UK remained committed to Palestinian self-determination , and that the question of whether or not this led to an independent state was a Palestinian issue . |
| 24 | The last of the mines had been closed around the time of Tace 's birth and the entrances to the shafts had been closed or blocked by rockfalls . |
| 25 | Reagan confirmed that he had approved efforts to help the contras between 1984 and 1986 ( when US aid to the rebels had been prohibited by Congress ) , but had insisted that his instructions were that this must be done " within the law " . |
| 26 | Ghozali 's immediate reaction to the amendments had been to threaten to ask for a second reading of the bill . |
| 27 | A long-term irritant to the police has been the ongoing allegation that some officers have been closely connected with freemasonry . |