Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While accepting the need for the United Kingdom to have the protection of a strategic nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future , may I ask the Secretary of State whether , as a result of his recent conversations with his French counterpart and the agreement reached at Maastricht , consideration has been given to greater co-operation in strategic nuclear matters with France ? |
| 2 | Smith ( 1969b , in Brown et.al. 1969 ) suggested a secondary phase for the Corinian group , and recently ( Neal 1981 , no. 87 ; T.B.G.A.S. ( 1982 ) , 272 ) attention has been drawn to further complexities of its organisation . |
| 3 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 4 | This is Turkish Berlin , where the ‘ guest workers ’ whose predicament has been brought to wider notice by the brilliant investigations of Gunter Wallraff live in poor housing , on low wages , and amid great hostility . |
| 5 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 6 | Consequently these questions have rarely been put to younger members of society . |
| 7 | In another mood he might have been goaded to further efforts by her extremely obvious , even insulting , indifference , but now , if anything , he was inclined to give her credit for it . |