Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eisenhower reiterated this theme from 15–18 May at the much-vaunted Paris Conference , which had originally been intended to further cooperation and understanding between the USSR and the United States , France and the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | While accepting the need for the United Kingdom to have the protection of a strategic nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future , may I ask the Secretary of State whether , as a result of his recent conversations with his French counterpart and the agreement reached at Maastricht , consideration has been given to greater co-operation in strategic nuclear matters with France ? |
| 4 | Some funds have now been diverted to further education , so you get £20 as an encouragement if you make the local sixth form . |
| 5 | Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray . |
| 6 | Although originally presented as a theory of personality , PCT has been applied to wider areas such as politics ( Fransella and Bannister , 1967 ) architecture ( Glanville , 1977 ) , maps ( Stringer , 1974 ) , film ( Carver , 1967 ) , painting ( O'Hare and Gordon , 1976 ; Mendoza and Thomas , 1972 ) and music ( Ward , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | This may allow a lower overall value to be negotiated in an area where a premium has been applied to smaller occupations . |
| 8 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 9 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 10 | This has been attributed to cleaner air , social improvements , fewer male smokers , a reduction in tar yields of cigarettes and advances in treatment . |
| 11 | Smith ( 1969b , in Brown et.al. 1969 ) suggested a secondary phase for the Corinian group , and recently ( Neal 1981 , no. 87 ; T.B.G.A.S. ( 1982 ) , 272 ) attention has been drawn to further complexities of its organisation . |
| 12 | I 've been tied to older people , my father … riveted to him . |
| 13 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 14 | Moreover such efforts have been restricted to lower case English , and have concentrated on two main approaches . |
| 15 | This is Turkish Berlin , where the ‘ guest workers ’ whose predicament has been brought to wider notice by the brilliant investigations of Gunter Wallraff live in poor housing , on low wages , and amid great hostility . |
| 16 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 17 | As far as national activities are concerned we have the greatest difficulty in getting a delegate to attend the tri-annual meeting in Birmingham this year and many members thought the money spent could have been put to better use . |
| 18 | ( Armstrong , 1978a , pp. 77–87 ) This is so since , rightly or wrongly , they have been put to grander use than any that is contemplated here . |
| 19 | Consequently these questions have rarely been put to younger members of society . |
| 20 | In another mood he might have been goaded to further efforts by her extremely obvious , even insulting , indifference , but now , if anything , he was inclined to give her credit for it . |
| 21 | He says that he 's nt been offered a grant , and the case has been refered to higher officials . |