Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome . |
| 2 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 3 | It had long been recognized that many species are protected from predators by colouring that provides camouflage . |
| 4 | The staff development policy has been revised and all staff are now guaranteed their own individual development plan and will work towards the appropriate NVQ units for their job role . |
| 5 | In a sense that has long been the case , since it has generally been supposed that turbulent flows are contained within a deterministic set of equations — the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations . |
| 6 | But before the tour , chairman of selectors Ted Dexter confirmed that the original 16-man squad , from which David Gower and Jack Russell were controversially omitted , had been picked because equal importance was being given to the tour 's Test and one-day international commitments . |
| 7 | There is no similar obligation to report where a debentureholder enters into possession and it has been recommended that this omission be corrected . |
| 8 | Details have not been disclosed but morphological abnormalities were observed in 4 , the other athlete refused ( Dr Eduardo Hay , IOC Medical Commission , personal communication ) . |
| 9 | We controlled the game better than might have been expected but this game is different and , however much you plan things , a goal can change everything . |
| 10 | US scientists who have analysed the data claim that there is no evidence that temperatures in the lower atmosphere have increased significantly , as could have been expected if global warming were underway . |
| 11 | The first casualty reports from the Pentagon said 11 US troops had been killed in action , 39 had been wounded and one man was missing . |
| 12 | A series of weekly car boot sales — starting on March 28 — at the brigade 's Barrack Lane site have been organised and other events are planned . |
| 13 | It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised . |
| 14 | It has often been claimed that English speech is rhythmical , and that the rhythm is detectable in the regular occurrence of stressed syllables ; of course , it is not suggested that the timing is as regular as a clock — the regularity of occurrence is only relative . |
| 15 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 16 | There has been a tendency more recently , however , for deaf people to be wary of consecutive interpreting where they may feel information is added to , or subtracted from , the message ( Allsop and Kyle , 1982 ) , even though for spoken languages it has usually been felt that consecutive interpreting is much more effective and much easier to check for the validity of the interpretation ( Herbert , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | The magistrate Di Pietro has become a national hero , the old parties have been weakened and new forces are waiting to take over . |
| 18 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 19 | In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’ |
| 20 | It appears from experiments in which platelet-membrane fractions have been separated that thromboxane synthesis is associated with intracellular membranes known as dense tubular membranes ( Carey et al , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | This requires diagnostic skills normally associated with doctors , but it has long been suspected that this responsibility is generally left entirely to the DN , so this section begins with an analysis of DN responses to the question : ‘ Who decided on current treatment ? ’ before examining that treatment . |
| 22 | Checks have been made that this bone was not missed during laboratory processing of the pellet samples , and there is little chance of bones being detached from pellets before collection because of the compact nature of barn owl pellets . |
| 23 | Assuming a valid haulage contract has been made and one party is in breach of one or more of the terms , the usual remedy is to sue the party in default for damages . |
| 24 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 25 | The importance of situational analysis as a preliminary to curriculum design has been recognised , investment has been made and important questions are being asked . |
| 26 | It has been argued that romantic love is a relatively modern phenomenon , reserved in earlier times for the delight of troubadours and the illicit pleasures of the rich . |
| 27 | It has sometimes been argued that marine erosion is not active at present because raised beaches are still preserved on exposed parts of the coast , e.g. on Gower in South Wales and at Brighton . |
| 28 | It has been argued that this essay is vitiated by " bad faith " . |
| 29 | It has been argued that these policies were adopted at Moscow 's instigation . |
| 30 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |