Example sentences of "been [vb pp] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One forgot in the early enthusiasm that the rotors had never been intended to be a ship 's prime movers , too much was expected of them . |
| 2 | Those that have seemed to indicate that ESP might be at work have generally later been discredited : either the subject of the experiment has been proven to be a charlatan or the experimental procedure itself has been shown to be flawed . |
| 3 | Such has been reported to be the case by some authors ( Subirana , 1969 ; Luria , 1970 ) but not by others ( Russell and Espir , 1961 ; Newcombe and Ratcliff , 1973 ) . |
| 4 | Cardiorespiratory problems , mostly sedation related , have been reported to be the most common complication of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy . |
| 5 | In general this owl has been considered to be a woodland species preying on woodland rodents and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 6 | It has been considered to be a pool car . |
| 7 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 8 | Accordingly , laminin has been considered to be a marker of fibrogenesis . |
| 9 | Eventually , of course , the dug-outs return with the news that prices and demand had increased on other islands also and that what had erroneously been considered to be a series of relative price and demand shifts turned out to have affected all islands equally . |
| 10 | An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand . |
| 11 | If we had won all the Tests but lost all the one-dayers , then it would have been considered to be a successful trip . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland . |
| 13 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 14 | Although he had not formally announced his candidature Olympio , son of President Sylvanus Olympio who was himself assassinated in 1963 , had been expected to be a very popular presidential candidate . |
| 15 | The UK had been expected to be the second largest customer for the NFR90 , after the USA . |
| 16 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 17 | Since 1948 , for example , the elderly have no longer been deemed to be the financial responsibility of their adult children or grandchildren . |
| 18 | That source-study has been so common is at least partly due to the fact that the interpretation of the writings of the mystics has , from the start , been felt to be the preserve of theologians . |
| 19 | It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 20 | The social cost of these processes , added to by government policies , has been said to be the end of ‘ consensus politics ’ and a turning away from the notion that the social hierarchy can be perceived to be legitimate . |
| 21 | More generally , however , this tort has been said to be the genus of which the other unlawful means torts ( intimidation and interference with contract and conspiracy where unlawful means are involved ) are species . |
| 22 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 23 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 24 | And finally , a lack of interest in and control over their children on the part of parents has been argued to be a vulnerability factor for these children in adult depression ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 25 | However , this has not been seen to be a very effective set of policies . |
| 26 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 27 | A dogma that once looked profound had been shown to be no more than a simplistic diagram ; and social reality is too complex , in the end , to be embraced by any single theory of history or of class . |
| 28 | This respect for authority has appeared throughout the examples given , but it has also been shown to be a respect within certain limits . |
| 29 | ( The selenium analogue of has recently been shown to be a semiconductor . ) |
| 30 | Cannabis Teenagers often insist that cannabis is harmless , but it has been shown to be a high risk for certain users . |