Example sentences of "this [verb] been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways .
6 This has been studied in many parishes and has led to some changes of heart and attitudes .
7 Until now SuperCalc has lacked a ‘ best fit ’ option for setting column width and this has been rectified in this release .
8 WACC 's thinking on this has been expressed in several official statements , including the Statement on Communication and Development of 1985 .
9 This has been confirmed in rigorous calculations by Konkowski and Helliwell ( 1989 ) .
10 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 .
11 This has been investigated in great detail elsewhere , and the guidelines may be summarized as follows :
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 This has been provided in some detail by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ Anecdotally , we know this has been discussed in some authorities ’ .
19 This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 This had been started in 1888 and progressively abandoned from 1950 .
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