Example sentences of "been [verb] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langbaurgh 's budget has been limited to £16.5m which will mean a reduction in poll tax bills of £18 a head . |
| 2 | The price of places has been limited to £10 . |
| 3 | Schnabel had paid $12.1 million ( £6.6 million ) for it in 1989 , but expectations for this sale had been downsized to $6 million ( £3.29 million ) . |
| 4 | It 's unfair that this has been removed when tax breaks have been given to people who invest short-term in shares , property or new businesses through Personal Equity Plans and Business Expansion Schemes . |
| 5 | Relatively few cloned genes have been assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 , but these include several zinc finger ( ZNF ) protein genes ( 3-5 ) . |
| 6 | ZNF25 had previously been assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 ( 5 ) , but its physical linkage to cluster A genes refines its map location to 10p11.2 . |
| 7 | Party spies had been assigned to people sending sums through the post for the personal use of the bishop . |
| 8 | The 164 Cloverleaf has been uprated to 200bhp , delivering 0 to 60 mph in 7.5 seconds and a top speed of 147 mph ( where permitted ) . |
| 9 | The movement towards organic production has not been confined to fruit and vegetables . |
| 10 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 11 | But from 1 January to 31 March the connection charge has been dropped to £25 a line , reducing the minimum charge to £375 plus rental . |
| 12 | Well the , I mean the thing is that erm over the past erm we 've been recommended to people |
| 13 | These arguments for studying social policy have been addressed to people likely to be employed in the social services . |
| 14 | The level at which stamp duty is imposed has been lifted to £60,000 , which should save homebuyers at the lower end of the market an average £600 . |
| 15 | As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings . |
| 16 | The accusations have been made to MPs investigating planning practices and housing in rural Wales . |
| 17 | Mindful of Morrissey 's Jean-Genet-like interest in ruffians , as evinced by ‘ Suedehead ’ , I ask : have you always been drawn to people who are tough and streetwise and unlike yourself ? |
| 18 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 19 | They also found themselves in opposition to certain local commercial interests as a fair number of shares in the mining company had been sold to people in the area , and thus certain local people had a vested interest in mining going ahead . |
| 20 | This time the offer is believed to have been advanced to £5m . |
| 21 | Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission . |
| 22 | During the current financial year , the associated company issued shares to a third party for cash as a result of which the parent company 's stake has been diluted to 15% . |
| 23 | Now the limit available to lend has been raised to £2,000 , repayable over twelve months ( with a 25% deposit ) . |
| 24 | Progress was only about 30 ft. a month and the rate had been raised to £5 a fathom . |
| 25 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 26 | The company had agreed an overdraft facility with the bank that by December 1986 had been raised to £40,000 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the interim dividend has been raised to 2.2p . |
| 28 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 29 | The subsequent evolution of geometric perspective in Europe has been devoted to means by which this property could be used and adapted to suggest movement and change : by the introduction of multiple points of view and interlocking spaces ; by the concentration and diffusion of light and light sources ; by the Impressionist fragmentisation of surfaces . |
| 30 | THE expression ‘ nosey parker ’ has often been linked to people of that name but the epithet 's origin actually lies with the Hyde Park rabbits and the Great Exhibition . |