Example sentences of "have been [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thousand buildings have been constructed to these standards at costs of one per cent more but with a resulting 40 per cent cut in heating bills . |
| 2 | Collars equipped with radio transmitters , developed by the University of Leiden in the Netherlands , have been fitted to four elephants in different herds , allowing scientists to follow the movements of the herds . |
| 3 | DUNDEE UNITED have been invited to Central America to face Costa Rica , the dark horses in Scotland 's group in the World Cup finals . |
| 4 | The aims of the initiative have been explained to 1,000 officers of all ranks in a series of briefings . |
| 5 | Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ . |
| 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 | Improved handling has resulted from a series of innovations most of which have been related to aerodynamic efficiency . |
| 8 | These changes have been related to volcanic activity in this eruptive neighbourhood . |
| 9 | As far as I know , the only suggestions that have been put forward as a possible cure for this problem have been related to dietary deficiencies . |
| 10 | From the moment of their birth my children have been exposed to non-sexist parenting . |
| 11 | Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children , particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour . |
| 12 | Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray . |
| 13 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 14 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 15 | Causal path diagrams have been extended to three variables to show how the factors are hypothesized to interrelate ; these diagrams are useful because they force explicit decisions to be made about the causal order of the variables , and lessen the risk that the analyst will control for the wrong variables . |
| 16 | Most of the animals seized have been transferred to other farms in Gloucestershire where many have fully recovered . |
| 17 | Three of the rarest lichens in the Brecklands are suffering from factors such as acid rain , nitrate pollution and conifer invasion , and specimens have been transferred to other sites , where they are thriving . |
| 18 | First , it has dismissed a number of head teachers appointed by the Sandinistas , and teachers who have objected to changes being made by the government have been transferred to other schools . |
| 19 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 20 | Copies of the digest have been sent to all district councils , district sports councils and sports development groups and I am sending copies to governing bodies for information in the hope that the governing body itself or your district associations might become involved in the local planning process . |
| 21 | Copies of both publications have been sent to all centres . |
| 22 | Invitations have been sent to 3,000 businesses asking them to the conference which is backed by the Health and Safety Executive and County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 23 | ‘ Confidence ’ , indeed , has been such a marked characteristic of the public school boy that many boys have been sent to public schools mainly to acquire it . |
| 24 | Reminder letters have been sent to those course organisers with courses ending by 31 October , who have still to send in completed questionnaires . |
| 25 | Letters have been sent to 1,000 psychologists , asking them to reply anonymously to questions about their relationships with patients . |
| 26 | The textures and general characters of the gneisses suggest that these rocks have been metamorphosed to high grades such that they are migmatised ( melted ) in places . |
| 27 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Thousands of preachers of the Gospel have been stirred to renewed zeal by reading the Reformed Pastor . |
| 30 | Here he describes the wetlands of Lincolnshire : ‘ Fens of water , mud , wildfowl , frogs and agues have been converted to rich pasture and arable worth from 20 shillings to 40 shillings an acre : health improved , morals corrected and the community enriched ’ . |