Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [adv] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 2 | She has now been transferred to Ho Chi Minh City . |
| 3 | He has frequently been compared to Morse and Wexford for detailed atmosphere and strong characterisation . |
| 4 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 5 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 6 | His friends have confirmed that , unlike other Hollywood stars ( Michael Douglas , Warren Beatty ) , he has never been drawn to backstage machinations , has never been obsessed with the art of the deal . |
| 7 | It has also been applied to the special Ministry of Defence payment to the pre-1973 war widows . |
| 8 | This respect for authority has appeared throughout the examples given , but it has also been shown to be a respect within certain limits . |
| 9 | It has also been found to be a source of one of the major ingredients of the contraceptive pill . |
| 10 | Clegg 's explanatory approach , relating differences in trade union behaviour to variations in the dimensions of collective bargaining , is penetrating and wide-ranging in its integrating of contemporary international evidence and historical determinants , but it has also been subjected to criticism . |
| 11 | It has also been exported to Argentina , Uruguay , the USA , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Germany and , in surprisingly large numbers , to Hungary , where in one herd alone there are 800 pure or graded-up polled Lincoln cows at Szentes , near the Romanian border . |
| 12 | However , I understand it has since been resold to yet another private company , who appear to have resold the lease to the Estates who in turn sold the farmland to local landowners but rented the house to the company , presumably for a much reduced sum . |
| 13 | The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 . |
| 14 | 1804 It has now been represented to the Meeting that the Town of Bowmore is very much annoy 'd by a destructive Crowd of Pigs running up and down the Streets , and that many of the Inhabitants , regardless of Property . |
| 15 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 16 | It has now been conveyed to the rest of us , and we should not too quickly dismiss the thought that this message might resonate usefully in Nicaragua , in Iran and the Lebanon , and perhaps even in the two Germanys . |
| 17 | Historically and culturally , it has always been linked to the continent . |
| 18 | The idea that a local authority owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers is by no means new , but it has never been subjected to a thorough judicial investigation . |
| 19 | Its chair , Professor John Knill , described the Ministry of Defence land as " an effectively pristine platform " , since much of it has never been subjected to modern agricultural techniques . |
| 20 | It has sometimes been suggested to me that the portfolio-matrix approach is inconsistent with finance theory because it balances investment over different businesses and this is inconsistent with the finance theory view of the irrelevance of corporate diversification . |
| 21 | The idea of the unchanging east was widespread in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thought and it seems that Marx accepted this view , although it has subsequently been shown to be misleading . |
| 22 | It has often been objected to this account that it does not fit all of consciousness , that some of consciousness refutes it . |
| 23 | It has therefore been applied to manufacturers in the conventional sense : retailers , wholesalers , repairers of products ( such as garages ) , assemblers and those who hire and lease goods . |
| 24 | It has recently been called to our attention that Innocent added the notion of the Church of purgatory to the Church militant ( the Church on earth ) and the Church triumphant ( the Church in heaven ) , championing the idea of three armies that acted through fire , combat and praise . |