Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commitment to sterling has already been examined in relation to the political economy of Britain 's international role , the vested interests of the City of London and the nature of the system of government . |
| 2 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 3 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 4 | ‘ Dublin has long been paralysed in relation to the Unionists , by an implicit veto of John Hume . |
| 5 | We found a similar trend in a previous study in Hertfordshire , the only other study in which a group of people has been traced from birth to death . |
| 6 | This is a prodigiously deep fissure or cave system in the mass if which has still not been fully explored but which by 1979 had been traced by speleologists to a depth of 4,400 feet . |
| 7 | By the end of September official recognition had been extended to a total of five political parties , whose creation had been legalized following changes to the Constitution in July . |
| 8 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 9 | British Petroleum is taking a lead in advising Hungarian ( and Czech ) industry on what to do about large-scale redundancies in a country where unemployment has been limited by law to little more than 5 per cent . |
| 10 | Bloxham had always been fascinated by regression to what appeared to be past lives , and he would experiment with those of his patients who proved to be excellent subjects for hypnosis ( with their full permission and co-operation , of course ) , recording the outcome of these experiments . |
| 11 | It has been proven in trials to be one of the most accurate machines of its kind , comparing well with laboratory standard equipment . |
| 12 | None of them had been treated before admission to hospital , and none had any other medical disorders . |
| 13 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 14 | Any material moving southwards along the east coast is stopped by the eastward projection of the Norfolk coast , which has been likened by Steers to a great groyne . |
| 15 | While concerns have , from time to time , been expressed over the feasibility of a model which mixes commercial banking with the traditionally riskier investment banking , German fears have been allayed without recourse to anti-insider dealing legislation or the development of a sophisticated statute-backed Chinese Wall network . |
| 16 | This requirement has already been explained in relation to section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act ( paragraphs 10–19 to 10–21 above ) . |
| 17 | My Department is writing to all those who have been registered as objectors to the applications , with details of the arrangements . |
| 18 | Cameroun 's tendency towards a secretive , police-dominated state , which had initially been developed in response to a regional rebellion in the 1960s , was strengthened , whereas most Camerounians had hoped to see it reversed . |
| 19 | It has been developed in response to customer demand and requests from Branch Banking Division for a more streamlined system . |
| 20 | This multidisciplinary research programme has been developed in response to the growing emphasis on management in British Central Government , with its concern for the more effective performance of functions and the more efficient use of resources . |
| 21 | To devise policies that directly lead to more positive and imaginative approaches , I am proposing that schools need to focus on two particular strands of educational research : first , the research that has been developed in relation to ‘ effective schools ’ , and second , the principles that underpin ‘ The Whole-School Approach to Special Educational Needs ’ . |
| 22 | All this concerns Aquitaine because Earl Reginald 's eldest daughter , Sarah , had been given in marriage to Aimar of Limoges while he was a minor in Henry II 's custody . |
| 23 | The receipted Form 53 is likely to follow a little while later , and the undertaking in respect thereof will have been given in replies to requisitions on title . |
| 24 | The place where the emigrants landed is now the site of the city of Dunedin , the name having been given in preference to New Edinburgh . |
| 25 | As payment for this help Sisenand promised a gold dish , weighing five hundred pounds , which had been given by Aëtius to king Thorismund in the fifth century . |
| 26 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 27 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 28 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
| 29 | In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level . |
| 30 | On housing since 1979 , work on over 6,000 grant improvement projects , costing £19 million , has been completed in addition to enveloping schemes on 450 dwellings at a cost of £3.3 million . |