Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round .
2 This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) .
3 Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course have not been designed to be integral with each other , students seeking entry to the degree course on the basis of the HNC/HND will normally need to take two further academic years of full-time study for a Degree and three further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) .
4 As the plaintiff had not been shown to be guilty of contributory negligence , he was entitled to recover damages , on the grounds of negligence .
5 However , some fluids such as saliva , sweat , tears and urine have not been shown to be infectious .
6 If the test has not been shown to be reliable in empirical studies , then there is no guarantee that any information obtained by using the test will provide an accurate reflection of any child 's ability .
7 The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics .
8 They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron .
9 For day to day purposes a knowledge of the following has generally been found to be useful to practising managers :
10 But this general expectation has already been shown to be misleading in his approach to the monastic life of the community at Canterbury .
11 Thirdly , the only course of action if some form of handicap is detected , is to have an abortion , as the handicap has already been shown to be present in the foetus .
12 Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses .
13 Coun Jack Warwick ( Lab ) a retired Yorkshire Water authority official and Coun Eric Dixon ( Ind ) a retired education authority officer , have both been nominated to be next Mayor of Scarborough .
14 Recently some migrant African and Chinese populations have also been found to be susceptible to non-insulin dependent diabetes , and people of European origin might be the only true ‘ low susceptibility ’ group .
15 The International Air Transport Association has also been held to be subject to the EC competition rules for the same reason .
16 The POU domain has also been shown to be important for protein-protein interactions ( 55 ) .
17 The risk of postoperative infections in patients in which a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease had not been established preoperatively had also been shown to be high .
18 Changes in the gall bladder , such as the increased absorption of water and the hypersecretion of mucous glycoprotein have also been shown to be responsible for cholesterol gall stone formation .
19 It was an area in which competitive private enterprise in the supply of water had early and clearly been shown to be deficient .
20 LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another .
21 As he recited familiar words , Jaq puzzled why he had really been detailed to be present on Stalinvast during its purge .
22 Even if the contribution of bronchial asthma to cause of death is interpreted generously — for example , part I of the death certificate states death from asthma and part II states chronic obstructive airways disease — only 63 of 100 deaths have so far been found to be attributable to asthma .
23 Since the late eighteenth century , there had developed the ‘ perfectionist doctrine ’ which claimed that ‘ government of the people by the people ’ was most appropriate , but according to Bryce , this had now been shown to be wrong .
24 It is said that assumptions on which he was apparently prepared to proceed have now been shown to be unsound .
25 The distribution of price changes or returns has often been found to be leptokurtic .
26 Instead , Sisson maintains that the real reason is that in Britain multi-employer bargaining has increasingly been found to be incapable of performing what employers regard as its major function , namely the neutralisation of the workplace from the activities of trade unions .
27 Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real .
28 However , the same has again been found to be true of some normal schizotypal individuals and , notably , the genetically related children of schizophrenics .
29 The carboxy-terminus has previously been demonstrated to be essential for Oct-2 to activate transcription ( 20 , 44 , 45 ) .
30 Certainly the reliance now of necessity of such systems demands , and fortunately the nature of these types of premises is likely to permit , a much closer relationship between the ‘ business end ’ of the system and the valves which control it than has previously been considered to be necessary .
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