Example sentences of "have been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deposit will be returned once the roads have been completed to the satisfaction of the local authority and adopted ; or ( b ) Entering into a section 38 agreement which will entail obtaining a road guarantee bond from a bank or insurance company . |
| 2 | The various highways and public transport requirements can be covered by negative conditions i.e. no houses should be occupied until the specified roadworks etc. have been completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Highways . |
| 3 | If such changes were made , the board of directors would not consist of all previous partners , but only of those who have been elected to the executive committee or their current equivalents . |
| 4 | More blacks have been elected to the state legislature , and a black also heads the Dade county commission . |
| 5 | ‘ Two Sinn Fein members have been elected to Craigavon council . |
| 6 | Quality systems have naturally been around within Ciba Geigy for a long time and all aspects of manufacturing on the site have been registered to ISO 9001 since 1987 . |
| 7 | TRADERS in Dungannon have been warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit £20 notes after ten forgeries were passed in business premises in the town . |
| 8 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 9 | Employees of oil companies in the city have been warned to be on the alert for anyone acting suspiciously near their offices . |
| 10 | One thousand buildings have been constructed to these standards at costs of one per cent more but with a resulting 40 per cent cut in heating bills . |
| 11 | Doe Contracts , ( ) , is one company which has responded with ‘ enthusiasm ’ to the LTA initiative over acrylic surfaces , and has recently signed an agreement with GreenSet , a company whose product range includes the appropriately named Grand Prix acrylic and cushioned acrylic surfaces , 10,000 of which , ( acrylic ) , have been constructed to date in Europe . |
| 12 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 13 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |
| 14 | If hurtful things have been said to you or about you do n't let your mind keep going over and over them . |
| 15 | Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) . |
| 16 | In Britain various landforms have been said to be exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments . |
| 17 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |
| 18 | Despite the performance penalties and useful load restrictions caused by their weight , over the years floats have been fitted to almost every type of single-engined lightplane — and many twins . |
| 19 | Acoustics ' fingerboards are glued on relatively late in production , in fact after the necks have been fitted to the bodies . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The distributions of forest passerines in Africa show centres of endemism , centres of richness and disjunctions , which have been fitted to refugia theory , but close examination of the geographical ranges of subspecies of the Heliconiini and Ithominae groups of butterflies gives 44 centres of endemism in tropical America , though the two groups have very different ecological characteristics . |
| 22 | Collars equipped with radio transmitters , developed by the University of Leiden in the Netherlands , have been fitted to four elephants in different herds , allowing scientists to follow the movements of the herds . |
| 23 | The four home countries ' teams have been invited to a pre-Games warm-up meeting in Sydney , where the Kenyans and Canadians will also compete . |
| 24 | DUNDEE UNITED have been invited to Central America to face Costa Rica , the dark horses in Scotland 's group in the World Cup finals . |
| 25 | One hundred bankers have been invited to Toronto on April 13 when O&Y is expected to seek formal suspension of debt repayments . |
| 26 | Parents have been invited to an open day at the Royal Opera House which includes a back-stage tour , as well as dance and make-up sessions . |
| 27 | The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’ |
| 28 | NEW MODEL ARMY fans have been invited to a clog clinic at the Walkley clog factory in Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire . |
| 29 | ‘ A couple of the DJs and I have been invited to a party being given by one of the local music companies . |
| 30 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |