Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tradition , and since 1911 the Indianapolis 500 has been rooted in American patriotism . |
| 2 | We have seen in this chapter that little has been achieved in British residential areas in terms of safer and more attractive environments . |
| 3 | Too little has been made in social work of the effect upon the child of long or repeated absences by the parent , except in relation to early maternal deprivation . |
| 4 | A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients . |
| 5 | Gilligan identifies a theme of social concern and non-violence that is found mainly in women 's moral reasoning , and that has been ignored in previous descriptions of sex differences in this area . |
| 6 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 7 | This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured . |
| 8 | This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports . |
| 9 | This has been demonstrated in conventional medical circles in the study of psychosomatic illness and the placebo effect , and in certain alternative medical practices such as faith healing and yoga . |
| 10 | This has been documented in various Third World countries , notably Nigeria ( see Ihonvbere and Shaw , 1988 ) , Brazil ( Evans , 1979 ) and Egypt ( Gillespie , 1984 ) , and my own research on class forces along the US-Mexican border ( Sklair , 1989 ) and the Hong Kong-China border ( Sklair , forthcoming ) is cast in the same mould . |
| 11 | To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways . |
| 12 | This has been studied in many parishes and has led to some changes of heart and attitudes . |
| 13 | Until now SuperCalc has lacked a ‘ best fit ’ option for setting column width and this has been rectified in this release . |
| 14 | WACC 's thinking on this has been expressed in several official statements , including the Statement on Communication and Development of 1985 . |
| 15 | This has been confirmed in rigorous calculations by Konkowski and Helliwell ( 1989 ) . |
| 16 | This rapid rise in fundal pH is due to the buffering effect of the food , largely because of the protein present , and this has been seen in previous experiments with different test meals . |
| 17 | This has been investigated in great detail elsewhere , and the guidelines may be summarized as follows : |
| 18 | This has been investigated in close detail by such social anthropologists as Edmund Leach , who attempted to describe the ‘ expressive ’ and symbolic aspects of thinking in industrial and non-industrial society alike ( 1954 , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 20 | However , even buyers tend to adopt some form of force majeure clause ( often a mutual one benefiting both parties ) and this has been included in cl 10.1 of Precedent 2 . |
| 21 | This has been provided in some detail by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority . |
| 22 | This has been attempted in two distinct phases , the first from 1962–69 with the initial development of the ‘ Entebbe ’ materials and the second from 1970 onwards with its adaptation and implementation through the activities of the West African Regional Mathematics Programme ( WARMP ) and the East African Regional Mathematics Programme . |
| 23 | Of the constituent countries of the UK , Northern Ireland had a considerable degree of devolved government but this has been modified in recent years pending resolution of Ireland 's partition problems . |
| 24 | ‘ Anecdotally , we know this has been discussed in some authorities ’ . |
| 25 | This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people . |
| 26 | But there has also appeared , in the past decade , a strong reaction against collectivism , in the shape of opposition to what is seen as excessive regulation of social life by public bureaucracies , and this has been translated in some countries ( notably in Britain ) into policies of privatization of public enterprises and services , with consequences that have themselves given rise to fierce controversy . |
| 27 | Literature is replete with tales of the power which old people have exercised over property and the way this has been used in intergenerational interactions . |
| 28 | Even if Behaviouralism in truth attacked Realism for its method rather than its assumptions , the attack did nevertheless have serious consequences for the development of the subject , making its practitioners at least much more conscious of the importance of methodological issues ; and this has been reflected in continuing debates about methodology since the mid-1950s . |
| 29 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 30 | This had been started in 1888 and progressively abandoned from 1950 . |