Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
| 2 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 3 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
| 4 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 5 | A young teacher ( Class 3 ) has just been given a special award for the ‘ best classroom ’ in Francistown . |
| 6 | The preface adopts a modest tone : ‘ To unite elegance and utility , and blend the useful with the agreeable , has ever been considered a difficult , but an honourable task . ’ |
| 7 | The aim of all schools of initiation the world over has always been to guide a human mind from an ordinary state of consciousness which is considered as a conscious state of ignorance or illusion , to a higher , more aware , enlightened condition . |
| 8 | Hand-loom weaving has always been considered a male artisan activity , with the concession that wives from time to time might assist their husbands at the cottage loom . |
| 9 | The description and demonstration of the working of such systems has always been considered a major advance in anthropological theory and is usually traced to the publication in 1940 of African Political Systems by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard with their respective discussions of the Tallensi of West Africa and the Nuer of East Africa . |
| 10 | With businesses looking at cost cutting across the board , American Express has also been targeting a new market . |
| 11 | The latter has also been designated a Special Protection Area under the EC 's Wild Birds directive , along with Abberton Reservoir , Essex , which became a Ramsar site in July 1991 . |
| 12 | Marxism and Existentialism have exercised the greatest influence upon theology , while in addition the general question of how far theology should permit itself to be influenced by philosophy has also been given a good deal of attention . |
| 13 | Computervision has also been demonstrating a pre-release version of its CVdesign parametric modelling software running under NT — to be made available once Windows NT starts shipping . |
| 14 | Cotton has traditionally been awarded a central role in the history of industrialisation . |
| 15 | Such a payment has often been called a voluntary payment . |
| 16 | The Evening Degree in particular has now been given a substantial boost as a result of the University 's successful bid for UFC funding and this means that from 1992–93 , three Arts departments ( History , Film and Media and Politics ) will offer courses in the evenings . |
| 17 | The water up to 500 metres around the ship has now been made a no-go area , for fear any oil still in the wreck could be a danger to life and property . |
| 18 | In 26 months since his £300,000 move from Highbury he has made just 18 full appearances — none this season — and has now been handed a free transfer . |
| 19 | It was a mark of the esteem in which John Burridge was held at Selhurst Park , both as a goalkeeper and as a showman , that whenever he has subsequently returned here with his later clubs he has invariably been accorded a warm welcome , both from Palace fans and from his former playing colleagues . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , this proposal has been so remodelled that , in reality , the old First Division has simply been given a new name . |
| 21 | Erm , has recently been teaching a little girl that lives next-door . |
| 22 | However , Ken Collins , chairman of the Environment Committee of the European Parliament , has recently been predicting a total EEC ban on lacing petrol with lead before the end of June . |
| 23 | Following legislative reforms , it has recently been making a big drive for personal pensions business which has proved successful . |
| 24 | Sir Patrick Mayhew has certainly been dealt a difficult hand — made worse , in Dungannon and other areas west of the Bann , where there was widespread anger over the dismissal of charges against six soldiers in Coalisland . |
| 25 | It is true that Beccaria 's classical programme has never been given a full trial ( the image of his public floggings and toiling chain-gangs rather than his denial of capital punishment may help the liberal-minded to feel this less of a loss ) . |
| 26 | Cook has incidentally been given a testimonial season by Transvaal for his outstanding services over a long period . |
| 27 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 28 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 29 | At any point of the communication process , there will have already been established a certain linguistic and non-linguistic environment . |
| 30 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |