Example sentences of "have be [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 He has been invited to talk to other committees in the past and has decided not to do so .
2 Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes .
3 Since 1977/8 , funding for hospital and community health services ( about £9 milliards for England alone in 1985/6 ) has been determined according to a formula named after the acronym of the Resource Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) , which had the avowed aim of eventually achieving ‘ equal opportunity of access to health care for people at equal risk ’ ( DHSS , 1976b ) .
4 When this operation has been done according to the conventional wisdom you then decide whether you like where you are apparently going to end up .
5 Activity has been made to conform to rational pattern .
6 Similarly , one minute I 'm a busy wide-awake person , and the next , when the decision has been made to go to sleep , I 'm a wide-awake person lying down in bed .
7 And they 'll like the fact that it 's a Prince of Ireland who has been sent to talk to them . ’
8 Just as the colonized has been constructed according to the terms of the colonizer 's own self-image , as the ‘ self-consolidating other ’ , so Europe
9 I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’
10 It is difficult to put these sums into context for there is no knowing what benefit has been achieved compared to what would have resulted from some other social expenditure .
11 And in fact , some of the values that have often been associated with literature would seem to conform to Derrida 's anti-logocentric approach , in so far as the so-called medium in literature ( the form , the language ) has been presumed to exceed to a greater or lesser extent any content or message it may have .
12 A coalition of national and regional bodies servicing networks of community and voluntary sector groups has been formed to respond to the phasing out of the Urban Programme .
13 This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) .
14 By this stage the fielding captain has been compelled to resort to his second and third string bowlers , keeping his main strike men back to stem the batting slog over the last 10 overs .
15 If , for example , a mother has been forced to resort to repetitious shouting , whining appeals and querulous naggings , the child can be said to have learned — learned to ‘ turn off ’ what is being said .
16 The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment .
17 The Chinese hominoid has been claimed to belong to the pongine clade , but the characters are of doubtful significance , for example the enlarged maxillary sinus , which may be an ancestral hominid character , or the size discrepancy between central and lateral incisors , which , although correct , is linked with an extremely low crowned and heavily buttressed morphology .
18 The term " ocular dominance " ( or " eyedness ' ) has been used to refer to a number of different phenomena ( Money , 1972 ) .
19 The logic of this has been held to extend to the situation where the person interposes by advising his friend of his legal rights ; the courts have held that this too amounts to obstruction .
20 The position has been held to apply to an insurance agent , who was under no duty to hand those notes and coins to the company ( Robertson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) ) , and to a person in receipt of housing benefit , who was under no legal obligation to use the money to pay off rent arrears ( DPP v Huskinson [ 1988 ] Crim LR 620 ) , even though that was the purpose for which the accused received the benefit .
21 The Act has been held to apply to a digging machine used to construct a tunnel ( Bunker v Charles Brand & Son Ltd [ 1969 ] 2 QB 480 ) .
22 To this end it has been agreed to annex to the Treaty a protocol concerning social policy which will commit the institutions of the Community to take and implement the necessary decisions while adapting the decision-making procedures for application by 11 member states .
23 In this connection , and considering the high frequency of anti-lactoferrin antibodies found in the present study , it is interesting to hote that lactogerrin has been reported to lind to intestinal brush border via a specific receptor .
24 In more remote areas , where the NO x concentration can be extremely low , ozone destruction has been reported owing to photolysis by near ultraviolet light .
25 Not surprisingly , no document survives — or , at any rate , has been allowed to come to light — which indicates that the Celtic Church might have differed significantly from Rome in its attitude towards Jesus .
26 Quite clearly , to the shame of local and central government , the homelessness crisis has been allowed to get to such a level that I would describe it as a national disgrace . ’
27 However , none of the available approaches has been shown to lead to transfection of growth arrested cells in culture at an appreciable level .
28 In animal models the presence of carcinogen DNA adducts has been shown to lead to specific mutations within DNA including the activation of known oncogenes and the persistence of DNA adducts in a tissue may be correlated with an increased risk of developing cancer in that tissue .
29 The KOX2 cDNA clone has been shown to hybridise to two loci in the pericentromeric region of human chromosome 10 , one of which ( ZNF11A ) was assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 , while the second ( ZNF11B ) could be mapped more precisely , to 10q11.2 ( 5 ) .
30 The RAP30 subunit of TFIIF has been shown to bind to RNA polymerase II ( 25,29,40 ) .
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