Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [to-vb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes . |
| 2 | Previous reports had suggested that such subgroups of patients did well in terms of survival in the short and medium term after transplantation , assuming that the development of renal failure requiring dialysis had not occurred before receiving a suitable organ , and quality of life has been shown to increase in absolute terms after such a procedure . |
| 3 | Both medical and nursing procedures can cause pain , and even routine nursing care such as nappy changing and repositioning very sick neonates has been shown to result in physiological disturbances indicative of pain . |
| 4 | The obligate activator apo-C II has been shown to result in poor activation of lipoprotein lipase in vitro when present in very low or excess amounts in VLDL . |
| 5 | Basinger had testified in the civil lawsuit that no contract existed and that she had chosen not to appear in the unreleased film because she would have been required to perform in gratuitous sex scenes . |
| 6 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 7 | The crew had been asked to help in diplomatic efforts to keep Albania out of the Balkan conflict , and to keep a promise to sixty orphans . |
| 8 | He was originally seen as a stopgap , chosen almost solely for his respectability after two previous prime ministers had been forced to resign in quick succession . |
| 9 | He was awarded the £40 he had been ordered to pay in excess fares plus interest plus costs . |
| 10 | Sadly though , when the peace came it was not so glorious , and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 gave the Italians little of the territory they had been told to expect in whispered conversation in secret corridors while the war was in progress . |
| 11 | The famous TV-am sofa is to go to the Museum Of The Moving Image on London 's South Bank , but staff and contributors have been invited to put in sealed bids for everything else . |
| 12 | Trade Unions have been invited to participate in existing Partnerships developing Compacts , and trade unionists from Compact companies have worked with teachers and students in schools . |
| 13 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
| 14 | As a result there have been real achievements : hundreds of thousands of workers have been trained to work in rural areas and attack fatal conditions like dehydration from diarrhoea ( still the main killer of young children worldwide ) with the simplest and cheapest remedies . |
| 15 | Some schools are so overburdened by all this activity that they have been forced to draft in extra staff to deal with the more mundane aspects of education — like teaching children . |
| 16 | The present scheme must be viewed as more acceptable than the radical changes Mr Waterfield and his trustees have been forced to consider in recent months . |
| 17 | A final point is that , experimentally , L3 of some strains of A. caninum exposed to chilling before oral administration have been shown to remain in arrested development in the intestinal mucosa for weeks or months . |
| 18 | We have developed the popular Enterprise Initiative , under which 40,000 companies have been helped to buy in outside expertise offering key management skills . |
| 19 | Foreigners , since the earliest times , have been required to live in special residential areas and have been treated with a good deal of suspicion and hostility by ordinary Russians as well as by government officials . |