Example sentences of "[been] [prep] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , however , standard procedure has been for patrols to study photographs , names and addresses of suspects before leaving security force bases . |
| 2 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 3 | ‘ The trend over time has been for Britain to become less important ( in US eyes ) than Europe as a collective , ’ Robert Hunter , vice-president of the Centre of Strategic and International Studies , told the Washington Times . |
| 4 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 5 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 6 | It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer . |
| 7 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 8 | He noted that the agreement had been for DEC to increase its stake in Olivetti to 10% in July 1994 , but found a means whereby it could make good on its commitment earlier than expected . |
| 9 | First , LAWER is viewed as the caring response of doctor and relatives for the patient , whose wishes , they feel ‘ confident ’ , would have been for life to have been ended . |
| 10 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 11 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 12 | The fact that he has also been of service to AIM is a bonus . |
| 13 | A magnificent example of the ‘ Paxford says ’ routine is provided when Maureen and Minto have been into Oxford to get two wireless sets on approval . |
| 14 | Gates had been under pressure to retire since early 1990 when a group of his officers were filmed beating a black motorist Rodney King . |
| 15 | Mr Major had been under pressure to call the meeting from German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , the French and also from the Italians . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister , Aníbal Cavaço Silva , had been under pressure to reorganize the government for some time , and the Cabinet sworn in on Jan. 5 contained five new ministers . |
| 17 | The sale of council housing to sitting tenants is a national initiative and local authorities have been under pressure to carry it through . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 19 | Shamir had been under pressure to react positively to the US plan following Syria 's approval of it in mid-July [ see p. 38358 ] . |
| 20 | The Department of Energy has been under pressure to expand its efforts on renewable energy after a report by departmental advisers concluded that Britain could generate half its electricity from natural sources within 20 years , a point also made by several environmental groups . |
| 21 | Bateson explained : ‘ The League have been in contact to say that when they informed the FA of the meeting , they were told that no matter what the egm approved the FA would not sanction any agreement which would produce more than 24 clubs in any one division . |
| 22 | Kim 's parents from Oxfordshire have been in court to hear three days of evidence . |
| 23 | Mr. Chaudoir has been in England to attend the contemporary music festival Tempo ‘ 92 , at which he was the featured composer . |
| 24 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 25 | He tells me that Spurs have been in touch to say their computer was knackered ( bloody things , who wants em ? ) so there is a delay in sending them out , but we are getting some . |
| 26 | Many of these people , training providers , employers and job seekers have been in touch to tell us how worthwhile the events were . |
| 27 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 28 | Poet Pam Ayres has been in Gloucestershire to open a new lambing centre . |
| 29 | In 1980 , Ne Win released all political prisoners and invited those like Nu who had been in exile to return . |
| 30 | Two schoolgirls from the convent who had been in Dublin to buy books with one of the young nuns turned to see what was happening . |