Example sentences of "[vb base] been criticized " in BNC.
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| 1 | We never had had them , and we 've been criticized recently by the Inspector , because of that . |
| 2 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |
| 3 | Nutritional experts have been criticized in the past for expressing themselves so strongly on this point , but they are unrepentant . |
| 4 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 5 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
| 6 | Although the methods used in these studies have been criticized ( Berkner , 1975 ) they have been very influential . |
| 7 | The pragmatists , and Dewey in particular , have been criticized for being overly optimistic about the power of creative intelligence to reconstruct social institutions through a programme of educational reform . |
| 8 | Although these characters have been criticized for being too emblematic , they arguably symbolise America 's divided attitude towards the war . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly these tribunals have been criticized as not being independent of the Ministry of Labour or of the Unemployment Assistance Board . |
| 10 | However , the key distinctions between quality-of-working-life techniques of the 1960s and 1970s , and the high-performance approach of the 1980s and 1990s , seems to include the following : The early quality-of-working-life techniques did not substantially increase worker control and have been criticized for making only cosmetic alterations to the experience of work , increasing discretion in superficial ways at best . |
| 11 | The Beeching proposals have been criticized for the lack of serious consideration given to the possibility of retaining many unprofitable passenger services , and the case for closure was presented in a way that prejudged the final decision . |
| 12 | However , they have been criticized by Marxists and non-Marxists alike . |
| 13 | Inevitably they have been criticized , from time to time , for what was seen , usually , as undue leniency , sometimes as undue harshness . |
| 14 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 15 | And er some of the schemes have been criticized but it was a blessing in a way that we got them done when we did and er we were able to house a lot of people out there and release ground in the centre of the town to be redeveloped and er brought up to modern standards . |
| 16 | The Schools Council 's early projects have been criticized in that they rarely took account of the context of the individual institutions where change was sought and ignored the fact that there was little consensus amongst teachers about the value of change anyway ( Becher and Maclure , 1978 ; Kelly , 1982 ; Richards , 1983 ; Cassidy , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | Both Sears ' and the Library of Congress List of Subject Headings have been criticized on the following counts : |
| 18 | These assumptions have been criticized as being unrealistic , not recognizing the mechanisms by which taxes are shifted ( for example . |
| 19 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 20 | They have been criticized for being slow ( a minimum of a 3-week offer is involved ) , cumbersome and expensive . |
| 21 | The plans have been criticized by the vehicle owners ' organization , Stichting Weg , which has termed them " impractical , unreasonable and inequitable " . |
| 22 | Plans for a major private dual-carriageway cutting through eastern England have been criticized as " highly destructive " by Friends of the Earth . |
| 23 | The tropical forest policies of the World Bank have been criticized by its own researchers . |
| 24 | Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , which have been criticized as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of dolphins , whales and other sea creatures . |
| 25 | The reductions have been criticized by environmentalists as not going far enough . |