Example sentences of "been [verb] to [be] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 2 | Liposomes , which in clinical trials have been shown to be non-toxic and non-immunogenic , may be safer than viral vectors which have the inherent risks of immunogenicity , replication and transmission . |
| 3 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 4 | We limit ourselves to a single question : has this treatment been proved to be safe and effective ? |
| 5 | But religious education has been known to be fundamentalist and in some cases anti-catholic , depending on the teacher . |
| 6 | Of the females , 82.5 per cent have been found to be pregnant or lactating . |
| 7 | A further generalization of this solution was attempted by Halil ( 1979 ) , but this has subsequently been found to be incorrect and so will not be considered here . |
| 8 | For white middleclass males , however , pride and dignity has little resonance , when all your life you 've been trained to be aspirational and competitive . |
| 9 | Charles had never been carefree , never been allowed to be childish or make mistakes like his peers , never had friends to call on and pour his heart out to . |
| 10 | She 'd been required to be beautiful and talented and independent , but she had n't wanted to be any of those things . |
| 11 | Many countries , mainly those in the civil law tradition , have made this declaration , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Egypt , France , Germany , Luxembourg , Norway , Portugal , Seychelles and Turkey ( but not Italy ) ; accordingly an attempt to serve process via a United States Vice-Consul in the German Federal Republic has been held to be ineffective and the Netherlands Ministry of External Affairs was held to have acted properly when it refused to accept a document intended for service via the diplomatic channel on a defendant in France . |