Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment . |
| 2 | Constitutional arrangements have been developed to ensure that bureaucracies remain responsive to political direction . |
| 3 | These computer workshops have been included to ensure that graduates will have ‘ hands on ’ experience of the accounting and business software that is of increasing importance to the accountancy profession . |
| 4 | Immunohistochemical and in situ hybridisation studies have yielded conflicting results , since at different times evidence has been presented to suggest that antigens or nucleic acids from measles virus , respiratory syncytial virus , or canine distemper virus might be present in pagetic tissue or cultured cells but no virus has been isolated from affected tissue . |
| 5 | In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them . |
| 6 | More recently , tests have been made to check that orbits calculated according to GR simultaneously fit the planetary orbital data from a wide range of measurements ( Section 8.4 ) . |
| 7 | Although concerned initially with resource allocation effects , the concepts of trade creation and trade diversion have been used to analyse whether shifts in trading patterns lead to benefits or costs in terms of gains and losses of consumer and producer surpluses . |
| 8 | Eye movement studies have also been used to show that humans employ syntactic information when reading . |
| 9 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 10 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 11 | Regional managers for northern , central and southern Europe have also been appointed to ensure that managers look across national boundaries for specialised services if they are needed , giving customers access to a broader scope of expertise . |
| 12 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |