Example sentences of "they [vb base] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 2 | Our two white heavies are too big for the straight-back chairs they 've been tied to . |
| 3 | And then , secondly t to just sort of mention the erm perhaps the more traditional ways of of working with people once they 've been sent to you by the courts . |
| 4 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 5 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 6 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 7 | Let's see what they 've been doing to you . |
| 8 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 9 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 10 | When they 've been promoted to a high ranking job . |
| 11 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 12 | Maybe just some Iranian hotheads getting upset because they think they 've been subjected to a con trick by the arms dealers . |
| 13 | I mean , the District Council have taken over Scottish Homes , they 've been passed to them , in Falkirk and Mid-Lothian recently . |
| 14 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 15 | Storage is one stumbling block , hooks quickly deteriorate once they have been exposed to saltwater spray . |
| 16 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 17 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 18 | Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children , particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour . |
| 19 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants . |
| 21 | If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon . |
| 22 | Second , it is possible to derive a single overall measure of test performance from all the subtest scores , once they have been converted to a common scale of measurement . |
| 23 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 24 | There 's even a joke about the " reverse run " , which can happen when several people converge at speed towards the sound of a fallen durian , to find they have been beaten to it by a possessive and alcoholic tiger . |
| 25 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
| 26 | For two months they have been relegated to their school 's library , forbidden to attend classes or take part in any school activity . |
| 27 | But the links have commonly been flawed in two ways : they have involved little risk of penalty for poor performance ; and they have been tied to short-term measures ( generally year-by-year ) . |
| 28 | In Oxford , particular care has been taken to try to identify all cases of self-injury coming to the general hospital , irrespective of whether they have been referred to the hospital psychiatric service . |
| 29 | They generally should not include the source and application statement as this has not been covered in the text and students would not be able to interpret this statement unless they have been referred to other sources . |
| 30 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |