Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chlorambucil has rarely been reported to produce ocular side effects , although these are common with many cancer chemotherapeutic agents . |
| 2 | The natural conclusion , then , is that the basic body plans of the different phyla represent structures which adapted some ancestral form to a particular way of life , and which have since been modified to serve different functions . |
| 3 | She reasoned that the law and the police had long been shown to have little or no educative or preventive power , and that the only way forward was a changed moral outlook and a gradual reorganization of economic and political conditions . |
| 4 | Any attempt by the administration to bring about a comprehensive lifting of sanctions before all US conditions were met had long been expected to meet strong opposition in Congress . |
| 5 | Similar experiments , of greater variety and equal sophistication , have long been used to test human perceptual abilities but cause scarcely a ripple over the apparatus of our everyday perceptual judgements . |
| 6 | The Townsend Thoresen Disaster Fund , the Townsend Thoresen Crew Fund and the P & O Additional Fund have all been established to provide extra money for those who have lost relatives as a result of the Zeebrugge disaster . |
| 7 | The foreground software used ; Smart , Cardbox and Multiplan have all been found to work fine with memory resident software over many months of use . |
| 8 | The practice note has not been developed to cover recognised professional bodies specifically , although much will be applicable to an audit of one of their members which conducts investment business . |
| 9 | An expired writ which has not been served creates such a fundamental defect in procedure that the court 's wide powers under Ord 2 , rr1 and 2 to cure non-compliance with the rules will not be exercised to treat it as valid for service or substituted service ( Bernstein v Jackson [ 1982 ] 2 All ER 806 ) . |
| 10 | The gear lever also chatters in its plastic cup , if it has not been replaced try that . |
| 11 | Although almost all of them enjoyed supervising house officers , they admitted that there was little formal teaching ( as opposed to learning by apprenticeship ) and that they had not been trained to provide such teaching . |
| 12 | This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method . |
| 13 | Sara knew that she had not been intended to understand this remark , and was hurt by it ; but she was determined to show no embarrassment or anger and told herself that Dom João was probably as nervous as herself . |
| 14 | Past contributions had not been calculated to cover such expenditure , but societies felt an obligation to protect faithful members from ending their days on poor relief . |
| 15 | And we have not been asked to see any patients specifically to help social workers ' assessments . |
| 16 | However , this report was contradicted by the Independent of Oct. 22 which , citing a Syrian source with " impeccable credentials " , claimed that Rifaat had " not been asked to handle any job " and that the powerful intelligence hierarchy remained intact . |
| 17 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 18 | Personality tests have not been found to have such high predictive validity as ability tests . |
| 19 | If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency . |
| 20 | However , the Department is becoming increasingly conscious of the need to involve those sectors of the community with special needs , who in the past have not been encouraged to get involved in public consultation . |
| 21 | In the normal course of events by no means all of these potential relationships will exist , but in an emergency , when the project manager may feel constrained to supervise all individual and joint activities , very large numbers are clearly possible if organizational steps have not been taken to provide effective control . |
| 22 | At the time of writing , this section had not been used to exclude any children with learning difficulties or disabilities . |
| 23 | She said I had not been meant to have this until I was twenty-five , but since I was married and had a child , they had been able to break the trust . |
| 24 | It was not the kindness that had first struck Dinah Asshe , but a young man 's interest in herself ; she had not been permitted to meet many young men . |
| 25 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 26 | This is to stop the roots drying out ; I have not been ordered to do this but am using my initiative . |
| 27 | The delay in Britain would have been greater had long-wait specialities such as skin disease not been excluded to allow inter-country comparisons , Dr Douglas Fleming , head of the college 's Birmingham unit , said last night . |
| 28 | Intravenous infusion of ethanol has not been shown to release measurable amounts of somatostatin but this does not exclude the possibility that somatostatin may mediate the inhibitory effect on the parietal cells . |
| 29 | As the different alcoholic beverages have not been shown to cause different diseases it is possible that alcohol itself is the most harmful component of the beverages . |
| 30 | ( Winnie has already been seen to have star potential — Harry Belafonte wants to make a TV miniseries about her . ) |