Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A two-day visit to Port-au-Prince by the special mission of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) on Dec. 6-7 had been intended to further negotiations deadlocked the previous month in the Colombian city of Cartagena [ see p. 38569 ] . |
| 2 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 3 | By using the resources of the local retailers to identify their potential customers over 85,000 colour pamphlets have been posted to individual homes . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 7 | All Kate 's previous sexual experience had been limited to clumsy caresses which she 'd had no difficulty in resisting . |
| 8 | It 's Thee Headcoats ( Already ) ’ , the latest release from ex-Milkshake BILLY CHILDISH , Mudhoney frontman MARK ARM 's debut solo single , a cover of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Masters of War ’ , which has been limited to 5,000 copies , SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS ’ , ‘ Wheels A-Spinning ’ single and DICKLESS ’ ‘ I 'm A Man' , which should reach the shops soon . |
| 9 | It 's Thee Headcoats ( Already ) ’ , the latest release from ex-Milkshake BILLY CHILDISH , Mudhoney frontman MARK ARM 's debut solo single , a cover of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Masters of War ’ , which has been limited to 5,000 copies , SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS ’ , ‘ Wheels A-Spinning ’ single and DICKLESS ’ ‘ I 'm A Man' , which should reach the shops soon . |
| 10 | Until then , because of the Ecclesiastical Exemption , which exempts churches in use from listed building controls , grants had been limited to secular buildings on the principle ‘ no control : no money ’ . |
| 11 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 12 | Two days before last Q.T. Day the Society 's representatives had an interview with the Sports Council Grant Panel — the serious situation arising from that had been explained to all teachers present and everyone was asked to take a copy of the Development Plan to study . |
| 13 | The aims of the initiative have been explained to 1,000 officers of all ranks in a series of briefings . |
| 14 | Those authorities show that , in approaching the language of the Act of 1986 , one must pay particular attention to the purposes and policies of its own provisions and be wary of simply carrying over uncritically meanings which had been given to similar words in the earlier Act . |
| 15 | In particular the Bill was presented as being unopposed , but notice had not been given to affected landowners as required by Standing Orders . |
| 16 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 17 | In syllabuses produced to date , only perfunctory attention has been given to cross-curricular themes . |
| 18 | More recently , it has been shown that the aim of preservation has been somewhat relaxed , and some attention has been given to non-agricultural uses of green belts , particularly for recreation ( Hebbert and Gault 1978 ) . |
| 19 | Attention has been given to such topics as the marking of subjects for gender , the differential achievements of boys and girls , and the poor performance of secondary school girls in mathematics . |
| 20 | A WARM welcome to the diocese has been given to two priests . |
| 21 | It helps the organisation to anticipate and minimise difficulties , especially in potentially complex situations , by ensuring that careful consideration has been given to alternative courses of action . |
| 22 | Help has been given to outside organizations such as professional bodies wishing to publicize associate membership to undergraduates , to foreign consulates with scholarships on offer to nationals , etc . |
| 23 | Much good publicity has been given to five areas of Britain that badly need it . |
| 24 | The head of the judiciary , Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Yazdi , at Friday prayers on March 20 mentioned the unprecedented access that ICRC delegates had recently been given to Iranian prisons , and said that the delegates should be replaced by a more competent team because they had given their " legal work … a political hue " . |
| 25 | Much less attention has been given to smooth-fronted waves of finite duration . |
| 26 | This paper had been given to all councillors by an official of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 27 | At the same time , however , some of these weaknesses might have been avoided if more careful attention had been given to commercial needs by those originally responsible for framing the administrative structures of nationalised industries [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
| 28 | I am also disappointed at the amount that has been given to Scottish Homes for housing . |
| 29 | However , deciding whether a particular consideration is relevant , whether a particular object is within the allowable range , whether an adequate hearing has been given to interested parties , and whether the reasons ultimately provided are sufficient , are all factors which can encroach indirectly on the merits . |
| 30 | It is not concerned with the question whether proper weight has been given to those factors . |