Example sentences of "has [been] [vb pp] [conj] to " in BNC.

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1 At this stage , then , the general position has been stated as to how research workers should approach their task .
2 The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond .
3 The GRIDS self-questioning approach has been analysed as to its advantages ( Jones , Clark et al.
4 As the minutes of the conclusions of the conference stated : " Various cases have recently been referred to this HQ in which doubt has been raised as to whether certain formations and groups should be treated as Soviet Nationals in so far as their return to the Soviet Union direct from 5 Corps is concerned . "
5 As we have seen , the order which summarised the rulings of this conference began by stating that " various cases have recently been referred to this HQ in which doubt has been raised as to whether certain formations and groups should be treated as Soviet Nationals " .
6 More recently , the question has been raised as to whether it is contrary to the public interest for a private company to be taken over by a foreign state-owned company , given the privatization objectives of the UK government .
7 It is understood that while the insurers of Townsend Car Ferries Limited have admitted liability in negligence no concession has been made as to recklessness .
8 No announcement has been made as to his replacement .
9 As yet , no definitive decision has been made as to the microkernel that will be used for new versions of OS/2 , though developers are known to be working with the Carnegie-Mellon University 's Mach 3 microkernel ; in addition , there is the possibility that IBM might use the NT kernel — ‘ we could use the NT microkernel if we wanted to ’ , it said .
10 Mention has been made as to the nonexistence of an allocation for housing and as to the suitability of this forum for consideration of the effect which would take place of development with or without the existing allocation .
11 The development by the Pythagoreans , for instance , of important mathematical theories out of organisations concerned with mystical cosmologies and shamanistic practices is no more an exception to the way in which scientific progress has been made or to the ‘ spirit of enquiry ’ than the fact that many modern scientific achievements arise out of arcane political interests or commercial ethics .
12 Considerable controversy has been generated as to whether his work undermines or reproduces contemporary power relations ( Lyotard 1980 ; Jameson 1984 , p. 63 ) .
13 No convincing answer has been given as to why picnickers only pay £2 .
14 As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project .
15 Traces of a rampart and a ditch have been identified by aerial photography and excavation in the north-eastern sector of the town , but doubt has been expressed as to their contemporaneity .
16 Because no one in any of the North Yorkshire area has been canvassed as to whether or not they should have a new settlement .
17 All the processes that follow apply to wood that has been stripped and to articles made with new wood .
18 To handle these , a separate telephone line with a twenty four hour answering machine service has been installed and to each individual is sent a list of stockists for their local area , together with a covering letter .
19 It is , of course , desirable to check that nothing has been forgotten and to this end it is usual to ask an operator to go through the designed procedure while observing what he does and also observing that the system performs as expected .
20 Some commentators have gone further and pointed to the relatively high proportion of UK production which has been exported and to the high ratio of exports of GDP in international terms .
21 Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal .
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