Example sentences of "to [noun] [vb base] been " in BNC.

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1 And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down .
2 In the past few years , a number of former hospitals that were doomed to demolition have been successfully converted .
3 However , there is no doubt that stellata is the most numerous diver in winter , and Cooper ( 1975 ) has noted that virtually all the divers identified off Beachy Head during January to March have been stellata .
4 In this chapter two different approaches to assessment have been contrasted .
5 On the other hand , the experiments in which particular routes to chaos have been identified required very precise experimental techniques .
6 Visits made by inspectors to schools have been praised by school personnel in many instances for the value of the advice , recognition of good practice and the consequent professional support given .
7 TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader .
8 Provisions amounting to £5.1m have been made against Harland Simon 's total exposure of £5.1m at 31 March 1992 .
9 ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’
10 Grants of up to £20,000 have been offered in London .
11 IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were .
12 Meanwhile , the development of administrative networks has intensified and tactics from counselling to cajoling have been employed , as the efficacy of the legal procedures and their sanctions in the fight against truancy increasingly comes to be doubted in some quarters .
13 False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual .
14 The reserves remaining net to LASMO have been presented on two bases , on the relevant working interest and also on a net entitlement basis which takes into account projections of government share of production calculated in accordance with certain price and expenditure assumptions .
15 Authorities ranging from North Yorkshire to Dorset have been pressing for funds to convert existing boys ' attendance centres into mixed facilities .
16 Our group of women training to return to management have been finding out
17 Tributes to Kim have been pouring in from overseas .
18 Resistivity adjustments of up to 20% have been recognised .
19 Earth-science techniques applicable to archaeology have been successfully publicised during the year .
20 Many other factors not directly related to cold have been involved .
21 Both French and European Community officials making their springtime visits to Washington have been anxious to dispel American anxieties .
22 Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping .
23 Constant discussion with my nine-year-old son on the merits of the gaelic version as opposed to rugby have been illuminating .
24 Sums of up to £10,000 have been earmarked for both Pocket Theatre and Durham Theatre Company pending further discussions .
25 This includes estimates of how the returns to policyholders have been reduced by the effect of expenses and charges incurred by the life assurance company .
26 Five people arrested in connection with alleged leaks of information to Loyalists have been charged with terrorist-related offences .
27 A 40-kD colon specific epithelial membrane glycoprotein bound to IgG have been isolated from ulcerative colitis lesions .
28 However , both of these alternative approaches to investigation have been rejected : the former as too specific and limiting , the latter as insensitive to innovation , intention , creativity and too suggestive of social teleology .
29 In terms of setting up his particular theoretical perspective , Bourdieu 's reactions to structuralism have been more crucial than his response to action theories .
30 Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time .
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