Example sentences of "they have been [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children , particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour .
2	Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray .
3	Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences .
4	Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants .
5	If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon .
6	In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree .
7	But the links have commonly been flawed in two ways : they have involved little risk of penalty for poor performance ; and they have been tied to short-term measures ( generally year-by-year ) .
8	They generally should not include the source and application statement as this has not been covered in the text and students would not be able to interpret this statement unless they have been referred to other sources .
9	‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals .
10	To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics .
11	These forms of strict liability have been retained by the Animals Act 1971 and , though they have been subjected to considerable modification , much of the old learning will continue to be relevant .
12	( Armstrong , 1978a , pp. 77–87 ) This is so since , rightly or wrongly , they have been put to grander use than any that is contemplated here .

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