Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it does suggest that the patient 's distress beforehand was more likely to have been related to environmental stresses than an endogenous illness . |
| 2 | The earliest cetaceans are thought to have been related to primitive ungulates or hoofed mammals , who returned to the sea some 50 million years ago . |
| 3 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 4 | Around 450,000 people are estimated to have been exposed to radioactive emissions from the Mayak plant near Chelyabinsk ( which still produces plutonium and reprocesses waste ) in the 1940s and 50s . |
| 5 | Separate allegations against Gates — suggesting that he might be implicated in illegal efforts to supply US arms and technology to Iraq via third countries such as South Africa and Chile — were also believed to have been made to congressional investigators and federal law enforcement officials . |
| 6 | They are thought to have been attached to wooden figures to carry a dead king 's crown in ceremonies expressing the continuity of royal office . |
| 7 | Theories and information appear not to have been subjected to prior sorting and tumble forth from the pages , while the opinions of the authors remain submerged . |
| 8 | Although having made a " confession " after his arrest , Cheng later retracted it , claiming to have been subjected to extreme pressure by the police . |
| 9 | A band stretching along the south bank of the Thames from Chalk to the Hoo peninsula , then along the Medway marshes , and across the river to the Isle of Sheppey seems to have been devoted to this process . |
| 10 | However , it seems increasingly to have been confined to Indian peasants exploited by non-Indian landlords . |