Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , apart from the papers quoted above , little has been done to distinguish immature from adult digestive processes . |
| 2 | Until now , efforts to stop the trade have depended on development programmes , but government reports readily concede that little has been achieved to create alternative employment . |
| 3 | What has let Britain down is that this has been allowed to produce growing numbers of redundancies instead of the increase in employment , and growth in the availability of real resources that should have resulted . |
| 4 | In a segmental perfusion model , however , prostaglandin E 2 has been shown to decrease small bowel absorption of PEG and water . |
| 5 | Classification techniques such as this have been used to produce thematic maps of land-cover types , of rock types in semi-arid and arid regions and of the extent of urban areas . |
| 6 | Hydrocarbon exploration in overthrust belts is encouraged by these results because the highly disturbed and sometimes metamorphosed rocks of the near-surface have been shown to overlie extensive areas of flat-lying and relatively undisturbed strata , separated by a fundamental detachment zone which is commonly at a depth of only a few kilometres . |
| 7 | It read : I am so glad to have been asked to become Royal Patron of the British Deaf Association . |
| 8 | These have been used to calculate continuous price series for 50 individual items based on 10 year average prices . |
| 9 | These have been used to supplement statistical observations , where appropriate . |
| 10 | Angiotensin II has been shown to increase glomerular capillary hydraulic pressure . |
| 11 | It is hard to under-estimate the influence of the Popular Church in the lives of Salvadorean women who have become involved in the opposition movement , For many it has been the crucial eye-opener , the starting-point for what many describe as the transformation of their lives and their commitment to revolutionary change , Particularly among the poor , in the shanty towns and in campesino communities , women have become actively critical of the government because of the influence of their church leaders , Many have been encouraged to join self-help organizations or trade unions through their church and from there have developed wider political commitments . |
| 12 | The SE-703 has been designed to replace traditional liquid solvent extraction usually used for sample preparation prior to chromatographic analysis . |
| 13 | Those involved are asked to make sure they have a copy . |
| 14 | Those involved are asked to make sure they have a copy . |
| 15 | In Holland , for example , an impressive manual for traffic provisions for the handicapped has been written to provide central government advice to municipalities , yet tests of facilities on the ground indicate that the manual may have to be revised and a new policy for provision worked out . |
| 16 | Most time was spent retrieving ill-considered casts from trees , hunting in long grass for flies , cracked off . |
| 17 | It demonstrates how Conservative administrations in the 1980s have been determined to reduce public expenditure and to ensure that support is ultimately dependent on central-government approval — a constant theme in inner-urban policy , which later chapters explore . |
| 18 | Comparative figures for 1990 have been restated to reflect additional information received and the 1990 figures in the audited accounts . |