Example sentences of "have been [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hypothesis that antibody binding to domain 1 could lead to conformational changes that increase the accessibility of region 3 has been argued to be very unlikely and the structure now reinforces this view . |
| 2 | Lafford is a prebend of Lincoln Cathedral , and Richard has been assumed to be also identifiable as Richard de Bello ( of Battle , probably Battle in Sussex ) who was prebendary of Lafford in 1277 and who was also treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral by October 1270 , until at least April 1278 . |
| 3 | This , however , has been felt to be rather ironical since , although he is critical of idealism and maintains a formal commitment to empirical rationalism , it is Hobhouse who in fact calls for the greater degree of state intervention . |
| 4 | The organisation of material once it has been attended to was extensively studied by Gestalt psychologists . |
| 5 | In fact , UI claims the whole Roadmap process has been recast to be user-rather than independent software vendor-focused , detailing user-specific information such as when their suppliers will provide them with certain technologies . |
| 6 | In addition , the bloodhound has been bred to be particularly attuned to human smells . |
| 7 | Mr. Roth contended that it is inconceivable that a party who has been held to be merely negligent should be required to contribute to the damages payable by a party who has been found guilty of fraud . |
| 8 | Similarly , PGE 2 synthesis has been reported to be both reduced and increased in patients with superficial gastritis . |
| 9 | The decrease in total cGMP has been reported to be only 10–15% ( ref. 24 ) , but the decrease in free cGMP has not yet been measured . |
| 10 | The administration of additional inspired oxygen seemed to be of benefit ; in 15 patients with baseline hypoxaemia this would be expected as episodic desaturation has been reported to be more severe if baseline hypoxaemia is present . |
| 11 | Japan remains tied to the Western camp partly because the relationship has become integral to her economy and politics over forty years ' association , and partly because it appears to offer the best defence against Soviet aggression and encroachment — a long-standing fear — in Northeast Asia , and the best hope of Japan 's integrity overall in a world where she has been proved to be economically and militarily vulnerable . |
| 12 | Non-flying mammals have for some time been suspected to be pollinators in a number of vegetation types outside the tropics and , in recent years , this has been proved to be so in both South Africa and Australia . |
| 13 | The velocity of propagation has been shown to be slower in patients with reflux oesophagitis . |
| 14 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 15 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 16 | In these subjects , the level of EMG has been shown to be well correlated with their level of performance . |
| 17 | Inter-site variation in laser Doppler flow measurements has been shown to be partly related to the small dimensions of the measurement volume , which make the results highly sensitive to local non-uniformity of microvascular perfusion . |
| 18 | The use of syntactic information as an aid for text recognition systems has been shown to be both feasible and useful . |
| 19 | The liver is the one organ in the abdomen in which MRI has been shown to be slightly better than computed tomography in the detection of focal lesions . |
| 20 | Reliance on a predictive procedure which is linked mechanically to lagged values of the actual rate of inflation has been shown to be wholly inadequate . |
| 21 | More recently also C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β has been shown to be transcriptionally regulated by LPS ( and presumably by IL-6 ) in mice ( 28 ) . |
| 22 | It has been shown to be virtually impossible to give reliability figures for software when the reliability requirements are less than 1 error in 10 4 . |
| 23 | CQD a product imported from Germany and available from specialist aquatic retailers , has been shown to be very effective in treating certain , but not all , cases of Hexamita infection . |
| 24 | The Government 's commitment to child benefit has been shown to be only lukewarm , and they regard the benefit as a politically necessary extravagance . |
| 25 | MRI has been shown to be more sensitive than computed tomography in demonstrating intracranial metastases , particularly when Gd-DTPA is used . |
| 26 | Gamma scintigraphy has been shown to be more sensitive than either radiography or the standard acid reflux test in the detection of gastro-oesophageal reflux , with a sensitivity of 85.5% , compared with 69.5% with the standard acid reflux test and 27.5% with radiography . |
| 27 | of Distillers MG explains how it has been shown to be more cost-effective compared to the use of dry ice slices . |
| 28 | And we are fascinated to know that this approach has been shown to be so effective in a remote part of the Far East where our cassettes are transported on the back of a motorcycle ! |
| 29 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 30 | For example , brief counselling by general practitioners has been shown to be as effective as benzodioazepine tranquillizers for patients with minor affective disorders of recent onset ( Catalan et al. 1984b ) . |