Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 At a more intimate and personal level , the balance between independence and dependence raises fascinating issues which have as yet been little explored in relation to old age .
2 Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views .
3 The validity of decisions taken by the partners may depend upon all of them having at least received notice of a partners ' meeting or upon one or more of them having been duly informed of action to be taken against them by their co-partners .
4 There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine .
5 However the balance has been somewhat redressed by recruitment to the BA courses and by in-service courses for qualified teachers which in 1982 raised its student numbers to about 385 .
6 The staircase was ornamented at intervals with classical figures , chastely draped , and there was still a sweet primness in the graceful propriety of their attitudes though some were lacking a hand or an arm and others had had their noses rot away or even been entirely decapitated by exposure to the elements , and all were soot-stained and weather-beaten .
7 The tests involved sending food samples which had been deliberately spiked with pesticide to more than 50 commercial laboratories which are regularly used by the government for pesticide residue analysis .
8 Furthermore , the lower unit appears to have been extensively replaced by anhydrite to the point that on the original completion log , at least half of it was incorrectly attributed to the Z1 Anhydrite ( up to the arrow in Fig. 19 ) .
9 This Directive had already been substantially revised in response to the comments of the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee , and had begun its fruitless journey six years before .
10 It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice .
11 However the right to self-determination has been indirectly considered through recourse to other provisions of the Covenant , notably Article 27 .
12 Other differences have been previously described with respect to the generation of other inflammatory mediators .
13 The two exhibitions were both group-instigated , and the individual artists have been closely consulted in relation to the selection and hanging of the work .
14 The basic conditions apply in that discrimination learning requires that the early levels of the hierarchy have been satisfactorily acquired in relation to the current events being discriminated .
15 On the other hand , very few checklists have been systematically evaluated in relation to the formal criteria which are normally applied to language tests ( see Chapter 8 ) .
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