Example sentences of "have been adopted by [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 2 | Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 4 | This flexible approach to arranging help for childcare has been adopted by several companies . |
| 5 | Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments . |