Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability of some species to undergo explosive increases in population had been largely ignored by exponents of the balance theory , but the significance of such phenomena had now been recognized owing to the writings of Thomas Malthus . |
| 2 | These values have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 3 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 4 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro , ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) . |
| 5 | Repayments and interest have then been calculated according to the terms of the agreement and the estimates of drawings . |
| 6 | However , the areas they inherit will have been developed according to policies very different from those supported by the local council , which is after all the elected body . |
| 7 | ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not . |
| 8 | You will see that there are two parts to it — one in which the items have been sorted according to the geographical location ( ie by county name , alphabetically ) ; the other by service category . |
| 9 | Only 39 per cent had been reported missing to the police . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The bass part has therefore been added according to the principles of interval harmony , so as to maintain the right equilibrium of consonance and dissonance . |
| 12 | While , historically , archaeology departments have been organised according to material — pottery , bone and metals — the new laboratory is organised by processes . |
| 13 | The privately rented sector has traditionally been enumerated according to whether it is let furnished or unfurnished , with the latter usually providing somewhat greater security of tenure . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A change of greenbelt status , and changes to a proposed greenbelt boundary variously affecting the combined area known for the purposes of this enquiry as D thirty nine and D forty , north of Skelton Village , have been proposed in the deposit copies , and in the desire to change proposed by the county and local planning authorities , and sundry valid representations have been lodged relating to the exclusion of all or parts of the area of the greenbelt . |
| 17 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 18 | Furthermore , serial results in individual patients at successive time points have been evaluated according to the criteria proposed by Presant et al for assessing palliative response by quality of life ( box ) . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | OUTRAGED Muslims are to set up their own meat inspections to make sure animals have been slaughtered according to Islamic laws . |
| 21 | Of course , these children might have been interpreted according to overly lax canons — compare our discussion of chimp gesture above . |
| 22 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 23 | However , coastal environments have been classified according to wave energy by Davies ( 1973 ) and this can assist a more meaningful correlation between wave type and coastal morphology . |
| 24 | use the new schedules to classify new stock , and also reclassify the old stock , which has usually been classified according to an earlier edition of the scheme . |
| 25 | Intervalence compounds have been classified according to the ease of electron transfer between the distinct sites . |
| 26 | In most series patients with primary gastric lymphoma have been classified according to Rappaport , Kiel , Lukes-Collins , or Working Formulation systems . |
| 27 | In this study , cases have been classified according to the system proposed by Isaacson et al in an attempt to evaluate its reliability in separating different types of gastric lymphoma . |
| 28 | Many of us can quote Romans 8:28 : ‘ In all things God works for the good of those who love him , who have been called according to his purpose . ’ |
| 29 | Punctuation , spelling and the layout of ensembles have also been systematised according to what was set to music . |
| 30 | What has also survived , at least in part , is a landscape which has been moulded according to those beliefs . |