Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world has turned to places it regards as more important , and Afghanistan has been left to its civil war . |
| 2 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 3 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 4 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 5 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 6 | Croatia 's acceptance follows on from the recent announcement that the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania has been reinstated to their former status as full members , a status that they enjoyed prior to the outbreak of the second world war . |
| 7 | It was the first time that Ethel had been summoned to her form-mistress for any reason other than praise . |
| 8 | Whereas Goneril and Regan had been shown to us first in disguise , and then in reality , Edmund begins in reality , and only adopts disguise when his father enters . |
| 9 | The front section of the vast Rathaus has been restored to its original pale sand colour . |
| 10 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 11 | Robert had been attracted to her ‘ lively mind ’ , feeling himself inadequate with words . |
| 12 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 13 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 14 | Mother , eagle , rock , father , keeper , guide , stronghold , nurse , housekeeper — the cynic might say : you name it , God 's been compared to it ! |
| 15 | Mr Higgs said Capper had been married to his 47-year-old wife Carol for six years , but it had been a stormy relationship and there were frequent drunken rows . |
| 16 | Symbolically , at least , a formal connection had been made in which the success of US policy in strengthening Western Europe had been linked to what was in effect Congressional interest in policies which would ‘ contain' communism in Asia . |
| 17 | Thirty-one crocodiles illegally exported to the US have been returned to their indigenous Nigeria . |
| 18 | Belfast councillor John Carson has been reported to his North Belfast Unionist Constituency Association over allegations that he verbally assaulted party member Fred Proctor . |
| 19 | NEWCASTLE United are looking to their supporters to ease their mounting financial burden . |
| 20 | Erm the the particular case of Richmondshire having been referred to I I felt I ought to point that er we 're quite content with the concept of Policy E two as giving the strategic weight to the question of protecting the open countryside and the balance , the very difficult balance , decisions that we and other authorities are going to have to come to in preparing our local plan . |
| 21 | They said that they were members of the MRF and that the Thompson had been issued to them by the RUC 's own Special Branch at Castlereagh , Belfast . |
| 22 | Lawton was struggling to get out of his pack the receiver that would pick up the radio signals from the miniature transceiver Forster said was attached to his slayer . |
| 23 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 24 | but you see Joyce has been saying to us |
| 25 | The job of taking over the No 10 jersey from injured Australia skipper Michael Lynagh has been handed to his Queeensland understudy Paul Kahl , who will be making his Test debut . |
| 26 | To everybody , I walked round the site with Paul and and Stuart last Friday because Paul had been whingeing to me about erm twenty five K G palletizing and the fact that they were n't they were n't properly packed as it were . |
| 27 | The Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) was established as such a designated agency and various powers under the FSA have been delegated to it . |
| 28 | Roger 's been complaining to me |
| 29 | And it makes sense : Ivor 's been married to her for years — he 'd need a good , strong reason to go . ’ |
| 30 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |