Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 2 | In an attempt to raise further funds for the International League for the Protection of Horses fighting fund , a demonstration and clinic has been arranged to be given by Britain 's leading Western rider/trainer and judge , Bob Mayhew . |
| 3 | ‘ This will allow existing buildings and land that has been contaminated to be returned to use . ’ |
| 4 | As a result , the uniform ‘ polises ’ often complain that ‘ the quality of prig has been forsaken to be replaced by quantity ’ . |
| 5 | The paramount mistake has been that the intelligence of the individual has been permitted to be clouded by childhood teaching to such an extent that he has been persuaded that the religious writings came from some other source which renders them inviolate . |
| 6 | The presence of antibody to the human derived epitope GOR has been reported to be associated with chronic hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 7 | One of the two patients was of British origin without any known Sephardic or central European ancestry , which has been reported to be associated with the mutation at codon 200 . |
| 8 | Low birth weight has been reported to be associated with reduced lung function or with respiratory illness in children , adolescents , and adults . |
| 9 | Human papillomavirus ( HPV ) have been reported to be associated with the genital tract and extragenital tumours in previous studies . |
| 10 | According to Committee secretary Nigel Peace , the finalised version of the report , which had been expected to be issued in October , will not now appear until the end of November at the earliest : this makes the original proposed deadline of 31 December 1992 for compliance with the code too tight for companies to meet . |
| 11 | The Building Societies Act was a response to structural changes in the financial services market , whereas the Banking Act and the Financial Services Act were responses to cases of fraud and bad practice , and as such are ‘ defensive ’ forms of regulation that might have been expected to be overdetailed and expensive to implement ( Goodhart 1988 ) . |
| 12 | These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger , although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy ; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck , or simply reserved for a leisured elite . |
| 13 | As will be demonstrated , these systems have been designed to be operated by users with little or no experience of computing . |
| 14 | It has been designed to be used by the professionals themselves who do not , said Moore Stephens , have the time or inclination to learn about computers but appreciate the efficiency benefits which technology brings to administration . |
| 15 | The syntactic recogniser has been designed to be used as part of a text recognition system . |
| 16 | What this early artist has illustrated is mobbing behaviour being exploited to trap small birds , which would have been destined to be served up at table . |
| 17 | That content too has always been felt to be linked to the aesthetic in some way — though again as of late , in theoretical studies this has not been examined . |
| 18 | In Britain various landforms have been said to be exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments . |
| 19 | Most of the breakage induced by trampling has been seen to be limited to the skull and mandible , with less breakage of the postcrania , while the breakage due to weathering is more limited still . |
| 20 | Justice must be seen to be done , however , and when it had been seen to be done , the miscreants were cheered by a crowd assembled outside the court . |
| 21 | Though far too small for me , the bike had been saved to be passed on to Cymbeline ; somehow it had been overlooked in the purge . |
| 22 | no asset has been acquired or disposed of on capital account or has been agreed to be acquired or disposed of and no contract involving expenditure by it on capital account has been entered into by the Business . |
| 23 | The reason it is important today is because tomorrow has been requested to be appointed to be a special day in prayer for peace justice in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | The Policy and Resources Committee on Friday considered the position that included a take , a potential take of fifty thousand for this Committee , and similar reductions from other committees , but which left the funding deficit problem of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and what the Policies and Resources Committee decided was to ask the committees , all committees to look at how this six hundred and seventy one thousand gap would be funded , and that that should include committees like ourselves which had already identified and had put into the guidelines for reduction , the full five percent reduction that had been requested to be identified early in the process . |
| 25 | As a keen walker and lover of the countryside Hardy would surely approve of how West Dorset has been preserved to be enjoyed by people today as he enjoyed it in his own time . |
| 26 | In this event , the stratigraphy may indicate one environment , say , for example , a lake environment , and the fossils may indicate another , for example a terrestrial habitat of some kind from which bones have been transported to be preserved in the lake . |
| 27 | In addition a recently identified group of pain afferents ( usually functionally dormant and called ‘ sleeping nociceptors ’ ) has been shown to be activated by inflammation and may contribute to peripheral sensitisation to pain after injury . |
| 28 | β-Thromboglobulin levels have been shown to be elevated in various types of vascular disease . |
| 29 | However , this long term toxicity of alkylating agents has been shown to be related to the intensity of therapy given and is very unlikely to occur with the low dose needed to treat our patients . |
| 30 | Critical comments , hostility and overinvolvement , generally termed ‘ expressed emotion ’ ( EE ) , on the part of the relative most closely associated with the patient have been shown to be related to risk of relapse ( Brown et al. , 1972 ; Vaughn and Leff , 1976 ) . |