Example sentences of "has been [adv] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent source of data about the ethnic minorities in Britain that has been extensively used in this chapter is Brown ( 1984 ) , which is based on a large-scale survey for the Policy Studies Institute . |
| 2 | Aluminium powder has been extensively used in this way ( ‘ silver' paint is a convenient source of sufficiently fine particles ) , particularly in silicone oils and other highly viscous liquids . |
| 3 | This is a significant area of importance in the Catholic school and has been clearly expressed in several documents but attention is drawn to Position Paper 4 ( Catholic Education Commission ) . |
| 4 | It is a daunting task to compile an adequate list , but it has been successfully attempted in such publications as Crane and Kaye 's Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals , 1620–1800 ( 1927 ) , and the Library Association 's Subject-Index to Periodicals . |
| 5 | Moreover , the local council has been heavily implicated in these processes , initiating and shaping the town 's development . |
| 6 | This programme for a natural religion has its own importance as making explicit something which is often enough assumed , but has been heavily criticised in much modern theology — the idea that religion functions chiefly to safeguard the good ordering of society . |
| 7 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 8 | While there are many other advantages of inter-cropping than soil conservation , this type of crop planting technique is neglected and has been systematically eliminated in many lesser developed countries ( see Beets 1982 ) . |
| 9 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 10 | In America , Motion Picture Herald declared , ‘ Crawford is attractive and has the only spark of personality in the film but his forte is slapstick , and he has been unattractively handled in several scenes by director Jean Negulesco . |
| 11 | But the case has been greatly overstated in some popular publications , and genuine psychological problems wrongly attributed to food sensitivity , both by patients and fringe practitioners . |
| 12 | The difference in recognition memory-test performance between subjects given these two forms of verbal pre-training has been amply confirmed in several other experiments ( e.g. Ellis , Bessemer , Devine and Tafton 1962 ; Ellis and Feuge , Long and Pegram 1964 ) . |
| 13 | The theory of ‘ disengagement ’ promulgated by Cummings and Henry ( 1961 ) has been popularly received in this way . |