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

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1 In reality , it is this power , rather than any other provision , that has been vital to the police in their control over the years of pickets , protesters , and political demonstrators .
2 This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know .
3 The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria .
4 So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament .
5 In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli .
6 This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery .
7 " If we have been unable to give Spain greater well-being " , he said , " let it be very clear that this has been due to foreign incomprehension . "
8 This has been due to agriculture and forestry activities , which must now be considered .
9 This has been open to doubt since June 8 , 1989 when an extreme left-wing group pumped 20 bullets into Valenzuela 's former chief , ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison .
10 There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC .
11 This had been due to lower earnings in Wales and lower employment opportunity , said Mr MacKay .
12 This had been obvious to Henry Mayhew in his vivid survey of London Labour and the London poor in 1856 .
13 Some have been due to the aircraft getting into a new mode of spin , but others have been due to poor recovery techniques .
14 UEFA is unlikely to reduce a punishment apparently designed to make the Dutch authorities , civil as well as sporting , take hooliganism as seriously as the British have been obliged to .
15 The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock .
16 Evolution of public transport and traffic planning policies in West German cities since 1960 has been subject to continuing scrutiny .
17 None of these has been prone to takeover bids .
18 These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations .
19 In origin such legislation is likely to have been similar to the Pactus pro tenore pacis , the edict of Chilperic I and the Decretio Childeberti , which were later attached to the Pactus Legis Salicae .
20 Our adjustment for these confounding factors meant that any remaining differences in perinatal mortality rates were more likely to have been due to differences in the care received by patients .
21 Since on that occasion they were working with the approval of Fredegund they are likely to have been opposed to Brunhild .
22 The report also stated that there were longstanding moves to purchase at least three 400-600-megawatt reactors from the former Soviet Union , but that these had been subject to numerous delays .
23 On the other hand when Jordan 's ( VUPP ) votes were transferred in Stage IX 117 were non-transferable , and equally , if these had been transferable to Burns , the latter 's position compared with Magee would have been unaltered .
24 If these had been transferable to SDLP , they would have ensured the election of both O'Hanlon and News each with about a quota of votes .
25 Erm Mr Donson was quite right that in the absence of erm structure plan policies er the districts have moved forward and prepared their own countryside protection policies er and these have been effective to a a greater or lesser degree .
26 Particular attention should be focused on hospital incinerators , since these have been subject to Crown immunity for many years and most are technically ill-equipped to burn at sufficiently high temperatures for adequate disposal of wastes ( Gatrell and Lovett 1991 ) .
27 However , these have been due to large-scale rationalization , including a reduction of nearly a quarter of their work force between 1980 and 1984 .
28 These have been due to evolving patterns of co-residence related to the decline in marriage and increases in cohabitation and breakdown of both formal and informal sexual unions .
29 Poplar panels , gypsum for the ground and rabbit skin glue would all have been available to Joni .
30 But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them .
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