Example sentences of "has been strongly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reddish , with a K-type spectrum , and has been strongly suspected of variability ; it is over 500 light-years away , and 5000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 2 | More recently , fibrinogen has been strongly implicated in platelet-platelet interactions . |
| 3 | The lecture as a form of communication in higher education has been strongly criticized , not least by students themselves . |
| 4 | Parsons has been strongly criticized on all these points . |
| 5 | This part of the Act has been strongly criticized and to some extent misused for a minority of very difficult cases . |
| 6 | The delay in the establishment of the European Environment Agency , largely due to a dispute over its site , has been strongly criticized by Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana . |
| 7 | , English Nature has been strongly criticized by environmental groups for failing to go through with plans to designate a threatened peat bog as a site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) . |
| 8 | ITTO 's failure to control the Sarawak situation has been strongly criticized by environmentalists , who claim that the state 's latest proposal to reduce logging is too little , too late . |
| 9 | An agreement by which peat will continue to be extracted from a site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) has been strongly criticized by environmentalists . |
| 10 | The decision has been strongly criticized by environmental groups , who argue that Bradwell is one of the dirtiest nuclear reactors in Britain . |
| 11 | The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims . |
| 12 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |
| 13 | NAFTA has been strongly criticized by environmentalists on the grounds that it will lead to " dirty " US industries moving into Mexico to take advantage of that country 's more relaxed environmental standards , and that other environmental considerations for all three countries will be sacrificed for the principle of free trade at any cost . |
| 14 | While Harriet Harman who lost her seat on the shadow cabinet and has been strongly criticized for he commons performances over the past year , keeps hers . |
| 15 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |
| 16 | The Irish credit union movement has been strongly supported by the Catholic Church . |
| 17 | Although there is no evidence that liberation has led to greater female criminality , such a view is widely held and has been strongly expressed in the popular press . |
| 18 | But its greater underlying significance is demonstrated by the fact that it , too , has been strongly opposed by Yard conservatives . |
| 19 | That part of the Bill has been strongly opposed by the Ramblers Association , but I imagine that it will be welcomed by railway locomotive drivers who , for example , face more than 100 such crossings whenever they drive from King 's Cross to Newcastle . |
| 20 | Scarborough Council 's tourism committee is planning to remodel or replace the feature which has been strongly opposed by conservationists in Whitby , claiming it is out of character with its heritage . |
| 21 | However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ . |
| 22 | Steps to provide common rules for employee participation in the management of public companies have been more controversial , and it has been strongly argued in the UK that a voluntary approach , reflecting the differing traditions of the member states in questions of employer-employee relations , is to be preferred to compulsory representation of employees on company boards . |
| 23 | The view that aggression is an integral part of human nature has been strongly argued for a long time by exceptionally articulate and persuasive individuals . |
| 24 | It has been strongly argued that the interpretation is mistaken . |
| 25 | The organization has initiated many of the schemes which now are under discussion — the IGBP , for instance , has been strongly influenced by NASA proposals . |
| 26 | Our thinking on mental hospitals has been strongly influenced by studies in which researchers pretended to be mentally ill , and in a television programme broadcast last week in Britain a reporter pretended to be homeless and schizophrenic to illustrate the bleak reality of being mentally ill and homeless ( p 726 ) . |
| 27 | It does appear that the Soviet approach to a neutralisation of Southeast Asia has been strongly influenced by Vietnamese proposals and Vietnamese regional policy . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , in a major reversal of policy , the " look and feel " test in Whelan v Jaslow has been strongly disapproved of in the United States Court of Appeals , 2nd circuit , in the case of Computer Associates International Inc. v Altai ( 1992 ) . |
| 29 | One mental disorder , schizophrenia , deserves special mention here because it has been strongly linked with food sensitivity by some doctors . |
| 30 | The UK defence contractor has been strongly criticised for allowing ISC , a highly secretive US arms manufacturer , too much independence since acquiring the company two years ago . |