Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Jennifer had been engaged to be married , then when she had been diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis he had left her and gone to Australia to work . |
| 2 | None had ever been diagnosed as having colorectal polyps before our examination . |
| 3 | These segments of society have been regarded as constituting one side of a dual labour-market ( Lever , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Furthermore — and in a more general sense than the ‘ special cases ’ quoted by Storr — it has also been regarded as having some association with creativity . |
| 5 | Several widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been reported as causing severe hepatitis . |
| 6 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 7 | The formal systems model provides an invaluable checklist for ensuring that all the general system characteristics have been considered when developing Human Activity System models . |
| 8 | It is necessary to make the point that had different criteria been applied when analysing this text , some of its merits , hitherto unremarked , would have been revealed . |
| 9 | The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client . |
| 10 | A large proportion of the children have been referred to the school from mainstream schools where they have frequently been seen as having severe behaviour problems . |
| 11 | Further , it affirms authorities ' responsibilities to meet their legal obligations where users have been assessed as requiring particular services . |
| 12 | These sectors have been noted as offering substantial potential for the UK exporter : airport equipment ; automotive spares and equipment ; building materials ; textile machinery ; computer hard/software ; consultancies ; defence equipment ; education equipment ; financial services ; food processing and packing equipment ; mining equipment , power generation/transmission/distribution ; railway equipment , and solid waste processing and disposal . |
| 13 | It was the first occasion on which the atomic constitution of matter had been recognised as producing visible effects . |
| 14 | It is characterized by a marked salinity minimum and has been defined as having potential temperature and salinity characteristics between 3.3–3.4°C and 34.84–34.87 , respectively . |
| 15 | Only one other carpet company has been identified as implementing this strategy . |
| 16 | A selection of commonly used naming words which incorporated consonants in the appropriate contexts was tried out with 130 normal children and 57 children of average or above-average intelligence who had already been identified as having retarded phonology . |
| 17 | It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful . |
| 18 | However , he often appears to be saying much more than this and he has certainly been taken as making significant generalisations about the nature of literacy as such . |
| 19 | For example , many of the predominantly Hindu women from India would have been vegetarian whereas Muslim women from Pakistan and Bangladesh would have eaten meat and may have been infected while preparing raw meat . |
| 20 | The last of the oil fires in Kuwait , which had been started when retreating Iraqi forces ignited well heads , has been capped . |
| 21 | Thus many more birds have been recorded as making shorter visits or passing straight through . |