Example sentences of "to the [noun] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Georgiadis said much of Mr Makallah 's evidence to the inquest had been lies — particularly details on three important issues : Mr Makallah claimed he could not drive , yet other witnesses claimed to have been driven by him ; he denied telling a camp site proprietor that Miss Ward was definitely not killed by wild animals ; and he covered up how he knew her jeep did not have four-wheel drive . |
| 2 | Local education officials opposed to the guidebook have been given standing ovations at public meetings , and churches of numerous denominations have slammed the education policy as immoral and irresponsible . |
| 3 | The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases . |
| 4 | The US response to the idea had been generally supportive , although formal opposition to compulsion was maintained . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The missing keys to the boat house and to the Princess had been the clue , spotted by Pete and reported to Ross Aldridge in a phonecall when Ted was out of earshot . |
| 7 | Where the information supplied to the Council has been less than adequate , discussions at meetings between representatives of bodies and the Council 's members and officers have been helpful in enabling the Council to obtain more of the information it wishes to have to assist it in determining the grant offer . |
| 8 | Lord Coulsfield said : ‘ The question of the extent and nature of any rights of access to the beach has been much discussed locally and it appears that feelings have run fairly high . |
| 9 | Under The Stock Exchange rules regarding rights issues , the rights must normally be sold for the benefit of the non-accepting shareholders unless arrangements to the contrary have been specifically approved by the shareholders in general meeting and The Stock Exchange has been consulted . |
| 10 | Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then , evidence to the contrary has been slight . |
| 11 | By s 45 of the Act where an action or matter is transferred from the High Court to a county court , and no order to the contrary has been made in the High Court , the costs of the proceedings prior thereto are in the discretion of the county court judge , and will be taxed in the county court upon such scale , whether of the High Court or county court , as the judge thinks just ( a statement to the contrary can be found on p 868 of the County Court Practice , 1991 but this has been adjudged incorrect : Forey v London Buses Ltd ( 1991 ) 2 All ER 936 ) . |
| 12 | US opposition to the convention had been co-ordinated by the Industrial Biotechnology Association , whose director , Richard Godown , had claimed that the treaty " was designed to hurt an industry that the US dominates , so that other countries may impede the US industry 's growth while developing their own industries using our technology " . |
| 13 | With no justification , Gervase Markham called angling ‘ the Sport and Recreation of God 's Saints ’ ; that was in 1614 , but already the act of delicate deception that remains central to the pastime had been used to illustrate both the wiles of Satan ( who baits his hooks with sin ) and the grim harvest of Death ( who swaps his scythe for float-tackle ) . |
| 14 | Could the approach to the patient have been modified ? |
| 15 | High latitudes were temperate until cooling began in the mid-to-late Pliocene ; overall cooling from then to the present has been punctuated by spells of warming . |
| 16 | Various improvements and realignments to the river had been made to aid the flow to the mill , but by the mid-1880s , steam power was also in use . |
| 17 | One reason for this increased loss of revenue to the Exchequer has been the raising of the ceiling on the size of mortgages that qualify for tax subsidies . |
| 18 | An implication of the last point is that even when the initial exposure to the stimulus has been prolonged or has involved repeated presentations , it should be possible to detect some loss of the latent inhibition effect over time , provided the interval before the start of conditioning is long enough . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
| 21 | Mr Mellon 's generosity to the university has been staggering . |
| 22 | Access Courses and the Evening Degree Programme , are the two major channels by which wider entry to the University has been promoted . |
| 23 | A WARM welcome to the diocese has been given to two priests . |
| 24 | The NMGC 's archives at Rugby have been inspected and are extensive ; access to the archives has been successfully negotiated . |
| 25 | In the Kuwaiti view Moscow 's greatest objection to the GCC has been the participation of Oman , which has strong military links with the West . |
| 26 | The appeal court judges condemned the trial as ‘ a costly disaster ’ , and the estimated £40m bill to the taxpayer has been widely denounced . |
| 27 | Early in nineteen forty seven Mao wrote the land problem has been solved and the policy of land to the tiller has been carried out . |
| 28 | Mass reaction to the royals has been muted and distracted . |
| 29 | ‘ I am happy to say , ’ Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin , with a somewhat exaggerated show of piety and self-restraint , ‘ that my last trip to the interior has been productive of much that is interesting , having discovered many novelties both in birds and quadrupeds , my whole journeys in fact to these colonies have been most auspicious ones and I return satisfied and especially thankful for what our almighty providence has in his infinite goodness allowed me to see . |
| 30 | Notes : Adjustments to the figures have been made for the purpose of comparison where appropriate . |