Example sentences of "they have [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 2 | Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray . |
| 3 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 4 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 5 | Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children , particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour . |
| 6 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants . |
| 8 | If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon . |
| 9 | Second , it is possible to derive a single overall measure of test performance from all the subtest scores , once they have been converted to a common scale of measurement . |
| 10 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 11 | There 's even a joke about the " reverse run " , which can happen when several people converge at speed towards the sound of a fallen durian , to find they have been beaten to it by a possessive and alcoholic tiger . |
| 12 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
| 13 | For two months they have been relegated to their school 's library , forbidden to attend classes or take part in any school activity . |
| 14 | But the links have commonly been flawed in two ways : they have involved little risk of penalty for poor performance ; and they have been tied to short-term measures ( generally year-by-year ) . |
| 15 | In Oxford , particular care has been taken to try to identify all cases of self-injury coming to the general hospital , irrespective of whether they have been referred to the hospital psychiatric service . |
| 16 | They generally should not include the source and application statement as this has not been covered in the text and students would not be able to interpret this statement unless they have been referred to other sources . |
| 17 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |
| 18 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 19 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 20 | The trick will be to distil these desirable attributes from the new arrangements and to discard the harmful elements ; once they have been shown to be so . |
| 21 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 22 | Although histamine stimulates the incorporation of H + , K + -ATPase rich cytoplasmic tubulovesicles into the apical membrane in parietal cells , it is unclear whether a similar phenomenon occurred in HGT-1 cells as they have been shown to be devoid of secretory organelles . |
| 23 | To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics . |
| 24 | ‘ They have been forwarded to the main contractors for analysis , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 25 | ‘ They have been forwarded to the main contractors for analysis , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 26 | ‘ They have been attracted to the box paradox . |
| 27 | ‘ They have been introduced to Nicky Campbell 's show and in fact Steve Wright did the first interview with John Smith when he became Leader of the Opposition . |
| 28 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 29 | Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday . |
| 30 | Some of these recipes contain , fat , sugar or flour — often forbidden in other diets — but they have been reduced to a minimum to provide tasty food that 's also low in calories . |