Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] in [adj] ways " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 2 | Visual communication has been categorised in various ways but none of them has succeeded in being comprehensive . |
| 3 | At All Saints and St Barnabas the difficulty of a comparatively small total area of existing windows failing to light adequately a much increased area of floor-space has been overcome in two ways . |
| 4 | Economic changes have been generally recognized as being very important , but their influence has been conceived in diverse ways . |
| 5 | Application for enforcement orders under s 127 ( where the 1974 Act has been infringed in various ways ) ; ss 86(2) and 87(1) ( relating to the death of debtor or hirer ) ; ss 92(2) and 126 ( relating to land ) , are all commenced by originating application ( alternative Ord 49 , r 4(9) — ( 11 ) . |
| 6 | Editor , — Paradoxical pain is a new and confusing term that has been defined in different ways . |
| 7 | Marketing has been defined in several ways — as an exchange activity , as a management activity , and as an attitude of mind . |
| 8 | What this HCF consists of has been seen in different ways . |
| 9 | To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways . |
| 10 | To extract the blood from the stone , the tax system has been changed in two ways since last summer . |
| 11 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 12 | The term has been used in diverse ways . |
| 13 | Over the past two decades the management of myocardial infarction has been revolutionised in two ways : the first was the development of DC defibrillation for ventricular fibrillation with the possibility of correcting this condition outside hospital , where the highest incidence exists , and the second major advance has been thrombolytic therapy . |
| 14 | For large companies in Japan , however , the free market has been controlled in various ways so as to ‘ mitigate the unfettered ravages of a market economy ’ ( Saxonhouse 1979 p.320 ) . |
| 15 | Paul is really grateful to the Christians in Philippi for their love which has been shown in practical ways . |
| 16 | To begin with , the term notion is itself a cause of some confusion since it has been interpreted in different ways in relation to its companion function . |
| 17 | The extent of illness has been measured in different ways , each of which has its strengths and weaknesses as an index of morbidity . |
| 18 | Made with glass fibre spars and using a ripstop nylon sail , the ‘ Flying Machine ’ has been improved in many ways for the 1990s . |
| 19 | The magnitude of the link between events and depression has been estimated in various ways . |
| 20 | The role of gold has always been a controversial issue in the international monetary system , but with the advent of floating its importance as a source of international liquidity has been reduced in several ways . |
| 21 | He gave , as a further reason , that had no request been made for a receipt , fingerprints could easily have been obtained in other ways , e.g. , by dusting the counter . |
| 22 | The dots could have been made in other ways , and hardly noticeable anyway . |
| 23 | Corporate America could have been damaged in other ways by the takeover spree . |
| 24 | It was essentially an hysterical solution to a problem which could have been resolved in other ways . |
| 25 | One problem here is that now , if pre-emptive provisions other than those prescribed in the Act are to apply , they must be in the memorandum or articles whereas previously they could have been provided in other ways , for example in an agreement between the shareholders or as part of the terms of issue of the shares . |
| 26 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 27 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 28 | The competition had been hijacked in other ways too . |
| 29 | Technical innovation had slipped ; markets had been eroded in various ways ; some of the products were too mature for growth . |
| 30 | Rather , different regions have been affected in distinct ways . |