Example sentences of "been [vb pp] to [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 2 | The crammed loose boxes to his right seemed more menacing , as though the ugliest objects had been banished to this unvisited dungeon . |
| 3 | The weather balloon is developed from the war time barrage balloons and warnings have been posted to all military and civil aircraft to keep well clear during the field experiment . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 5 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 6 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 7 | Since 1980 investgations , by this group , of patients with iron deficiency anaemia and no obvious cause , have been limited to upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , with small bowel biopsy , and barium enema . |
| 8 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 9 | In 1940 , however , there were many lessons to be learnt , for little thought had been given to major amphibious assault . |
| 10 | Does the Secretary of State imagine that such figures could have been given to any other Parliament in the European Community — especially in a country that had enjoyed a North sea oil bonanza over the years ? |
| 11 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 12 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 13 | Matey , like Dr Neil , thought that McAllister might have been spoiled and pampered in her old life , but she had certainly been exposed to many good principles of conduct , even if she was headstrong . |
| 14 | Never before had the Prince encountered such anger and hostility , nor been exposed to such real and persistent danger . |
| 15 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 16 | THE closed world of special hospitals has been exposed to unusual public scrutiny since last year 's outcry over conditions at Ashworth , Merseyside . |
| 17 | Examination of records available on smoking related activity in the control schools indicated that pupils in half of the schools had been exposed to some incidental and unplanned smoking education through events such as No Smoking Day or through associated teaching in home economics or biology . |
| 18 | Hospital studies on asthma attacks have concentrated on specific groups of patients ( adults or children ) or have been confined to specific geographical areas . |
| 19 | Our examples have been confined to simple homophonic chords in which all the notes sound together . |
| 20 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 21 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size . |
| 22 | The nuclear assets and liabilities of the former nationalized Scottish electricity boards had already been transferred to Scottish Nuclear which , as with the English nuclear power industry , remained wholly government-owned . |
| 23 | Despite the abandonment of the commitment to full employment and the demise of corporatism , Lowe contends that the welfare state has not been weakened to any significant extent during the recent past — an assessment which underestimates the way in which the less visible strengths of this institution ( the promotion of collectivism and solidarity ) have been undermined . |
| 24 | There is also the problem , common to courses with high-recurrent frequency , that the guide does not remember exactly what has been said to each particular group . |
| 25 | This campaign has not yet been applied to all Allied 's large stores , but where it has run , sales have increased and research shows a clear improvement in consumer perceptions . |
| 26 | Where these projections of the formerly open central bay of the building are not glazed , they are finished in dark-stained timber , a treatment that has been applied to all new external and internal timberwork and is a conventional finish for the external woodwork of many local farm buildings . |
| 27 | Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants . |
| 28 | The Birmingham School approach has since been applied to many different discourse types : for example , medical consultations ( Coulthard and Montgomery 1981b ) and TV quiz shows ( Berry 1981 ) . |
| 29 | Characterisation studies have also been applied to early Anglo-Saxon stone artefacts . |
| 30 | Profit and loss reporting has been expanded to 26 available fields , stock take procedures improved and bank reconciliation made faster . |