Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] formed [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Divisions may have been formed for administrative or historical reasons , which do not necessarily produce organizational units which are identical with SBUs . |
| 2 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 3 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
| 4 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 5 | For example , our solar system is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , as is an earlier generation of nearby stars in which heavy elements could have been formed by nuclear synthesis . |
| 6 | Darwin wrote ( in The Origin of Species ) : If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications , my theory would absolutely break down . |
| 7 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 8 | ‘ TO SUPPOSE that the eye , with all its inimitable contrivances … could have been formed by natural selection , seems , I freely confess , absurd in the highest degree . ’ |