Example sentences of "been [verb] to [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 2 | The targets have been limited to three Cath , around three . |
| 3 | After the release of stills from The Delinquents movie , she 's been likened to sex-icon Marilyn Monroe and it is a comparison that Kylie does n't wish to deny . |
| 4 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 5 | The extraordinary general meeting which was due to take place on 10 October has been rescheduled to 17 October . |
| 6 | Of course the influence of Buchanan has not been confined to Western Europe . |
| 7 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 8 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 9 | While the Romans are described as being tributary , it seems that the lands which had originally been granted to free-born Franks had been exempt from tax , and that the Franks subsequently assumed that any lands which they came to hold were similarly exempt . |
| 10 | The target date has now been moved to 1 January 1994 . |
| 11 | EIB money has never before been offered to Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers . |
| 13 | In about 1800 , a bull and two heifers from the Duke of Bedford 's herd had been exported to southern Africa in order to improve the weak , long-legged local oxen . |
| 14 | And the other afternoon — crises are always in the afternoon — when Harry , back from an official lunch , comes out of his office and announces , ‘ Gentlemen , I thought you might be interested to know that the location of the Alps has been shifted to Central Africa . ’ |
| 15 | DUNDEE UNITED have been invited to Central America to face Costa Rica , the dark horses in Scotland 's group in the World Cup finals . |
| 16 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 17 | There were one or two guests that had been invited to both Breasbrough parties . |
| 18 | The full version of the new Policy and Management System has been distributed to all UK companies and is available on request . |
| 19 | The letter bomb attacks have been linked to last Wednesday 's elaborate bomb hoaxes at the offices of leading oil companies in Aberdeen and police believe that a rogue loner , rather than a small terrorist group , is responsible . |
| 20 | At a further press conference on Jan. 19 the opposition parties produced Maj. József Vegvari , an officer in the State Security Service who identified himself as the source of the leaked information , who alleged that reports compiled as a result of the surveillance operation had regularly been passed to senior HSP members and discussed at meetings of the Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | After six appearances and three goals for Leeds , the former enfant terrible of French football has been taken to flinty Yorkshire hearts as though he were one of their own . |
| 22 | A SUMMONS for Old Bailey jury service has been sent to nine-year-old Justin Peters , of Dalston , East London . |
| 23 | GRUMMAN F7F Tigercat 80374/N7629C , in store for some time at the Marine Corps Museum at Quantico , Virginia , has been traded to famed Reno racer/Lockheed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer in exchange for four aircraft ( reported to include a TBM and a PBJ Mitchell ) . |
| 24 | The horizon cleared , and the dark outline of an anchored vessel developed into the clear grey shape of one of 51 Port Squadron 's Ramped Craft Logistic ( RCL ) , which had been attached to 52 Port Squadron for the duration of the exercise . |