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

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1 Since 1980 investgations , by this group , of patients with iron deficiency anaemia and no obvious cause , have been limited to upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , with small bowel biopsy , and barium enema .
2 In 1940 , however , there were many lessons to be learnt , for little thought had been given to major amphibious assault .
3 It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer .
4 THE closed world of special hospitals has been exposed to unusual public scrutiny since last year 's outcry over conditions at Ashworth , Merseyside .
5 Hospital studies on asthma attacks have concentrated on specific groups of patients ( adults or children ) or have been confined to specific geographical areas .
6 Our examples have been confined to simple homophonic chords in which all the notes sound together .
7 What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects .
8 By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size .
9 There is , to my mind , no doubt at all but that the Turnbull & Co. v. Duval [ 1902 ] A.C. 429 line of cases demonstrates a treatment of wives who have given security to support their husband 's debts more tender than that which would have been applied to other third party sureties .
10 Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants .
11 Characterisation studies have also been applied to early Anglo-Saxon stone artefacts .
12 Recourse has also been made to other external bodies outside the formal machinery of negotiation .
13 During the last 20 years major contributions have been made to liberal political philosophy .
14 Up to now , objects have been related to external contextual dimensions in an unmediated form , without consideration of their internal organization .
15 Thus , we can not rule out the possibility that the increased risk of coronary heart disease among young men with no teeth may have been related to previous dental decay .
16 In each case one pole of the continuum is depicted as conservative and the other as radical , and this has often been related to overt political positions .
17 It is not usually associated with lowered plasma proteins or cardiac failure , and has been attributed to increased capillary permeability , reduced tissue tone , and an inhibition of natriuresis secondary to increased tubular filtration of insulin .
18 Many of these boats had been supplied to foreign naval powers and had been proved able and fast in all sea conditions .
19 Strangely enough , they consistently demand outrageous prices for things like basket-case Eko Rangers and Westone basses that have obviously been used to fell fair-sized pine trees , but they also have the laughably ignorant if highly convenient habit of pricing guitar amplifiers on the simple basis of how large they are .
20 Rosalie Zobel , deputy director of the Esprit projects told EW + WW that Mips Computer Systems , Sun , Motorola , DEC and IBM have all been invited to preliminary OMI meetings .
21 Therefore , these subfamilies have not been raised to full familial rank , until more evidence is available .
22 The basal tissue of the conodont has also been compared to globular calcified cartilage as seen associated with the earliest authenticated bone of Eriptychius .
23 Much research in the pathophysiology of gall stones has been devoted to various molecular species of bile salts .
24 Complaints such as arthritis , cellulite , high-blood pressure and even depression have been linked to poor lymphatic drainage .
25 Rex was particularly taken with the Wurlitzer 600 Model jukebox , noting the elaborate grille of nickel-plated Art-Deco-type scrolls and the way the Lucite rods of the Model 24 had been reduced to straight green verticals in a manner he considered most pleasing .
26 The legal authority of the Lander has been reduced to legal administrative authority by the federal administration .
27 Of the land mammals , eleven are unique , including two that have almost certainly subsequently been introduced to nearby smaller islands by man .
28 Localisation of ZNF33A to 10p11.2. ( a ) and ( b ) are chromosome paints where labelled Alu-PCR fragments from 10p-only hybrids R342A4-B14 and R342A4-B15 have been hybridised to normal human metaphase spreads .
29 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 .
30 Zimbabwe Geological investigations are continuing in the Archaean Midlands Greenstone Belt of Zimbabwe as part of an integrated exploration project in which appropriate methods of regional structural analysis are being introduced as a basis for formulating sound gold exploration strategies and identifying targets for follow-up by the commercial sector.By the end of the second year about 1700 square kilometres ( or 70% ) of the project area has been tectonically mapped at scales of 1:25 000 to 1:50 000 , and selected areas , including over 80 medium-to-small gold mines , have been subjected to detailed structural analysis at survey scales of 1:200 to 1:2500 .
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