Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 32 | Even the shape and colour of an article have been held to be acceptable as trade marks . |
| 33 | Both assault and battery have been held to be statutory offences : DPP v Little ( 1991 ) 141 NLJ 965 ( DC ) . |
| 34 | No useful purpose would be served by attempting to set out here an exhaustive list of items that have been held to be an admissible claim for damages . |
| 35 | In solus agreements efficiency of distribution , and in cases concerning sporting organisations the proper promotion of the sport , have been held to be interests meriting protection . |
| 36 | Fifty bicycles have been donated to be used by anyone and to leave where they like in the city centre under the Green Bike Scheme launched in Bristol . |
| 37 | Anti-snake devices have been proved to be worth while . |
| 38 | It is further suggested that in reporting the results of stability tests and the conclusions drawn from them , care should be taken to avoid any statement which would lead people to believe that the products have been proved to be ‘ stable ’ . |
| 39 | FORECASTS from the Treasury have been proved to be hopelessly wrong which is one reason why the economy now seems to be in Freefall , leading to the closure of hundreds of Factories . |
| 40 | I was disappointed that the Home Secretary spent so much of his time this afternoon outlining a few examples of asylum seekers who have been proved to be lying . |
| 41 | Although none of the autoantibodies have been proved to be of pathogenetic significance , it has been shown , both in Crohn 's disease and in ulcerative colitis , that IgG and complement can be present on the apical surface of enterocytes in vivo , possibly indicating a pathogenetic role for anti-epithelial/anti-brush border antibodies in inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 42 | Again he is taking over precisely the ‘ modern ’ definitions and oppositions , between the normal and pathological , the natural and unnatural , etc. , which have been shown to be both confused and ideological in the narrow sense . |
| 43 | Often , both in America and in Britain , hostile takeovers have been shown to be reckless , mistaken and damaging . |
| 44 | In these experiments , two kinds of learning have been shown to be possible in a nervous system with fixed cell numbers and connections , by altering the effectiveness of synapses . |
| 45 | By using chromatofocusing techniques and enzyme assays , the enzymes involved in the biocontrol action of Trichoderma have been shown to be chitinases. glucanases and proteases . |
| 46 | β-Thromboglobulin levels have been shown to be elevated in various types of vascular disease . |
| 47 | The festivals have been shown to be relatively successful by some indicators . |
| 48 | The trick will be to distil these desirable attributes from the new arrangements and to discard the harmful elements ; once they have been shown to be so . |
| 49 | Some techniques , such as cost analysis and cost minimisation analysis , proceed on the basis that the alternatives under consideration have been shown to be equivalent in effectiveness . |
| 50 | The remedies of the homoeopathic materia medica have not , as has happened to their orthodox counterparts , had to be abandoned , as one after another they have lost their efficacy or have been shown to be too toxic to be used safely . |
| 51 | Generally it is helpful to carry out these discussions with managers from sites who have been shown to be performing well ( at least above average ) in the relevant activity . |
| 52 | the recommendations have been shown to be readily accepted both by line and functional management ; |
| 53 | Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can : |
| 54 | But to the anorexic , that last phrase is a contradiction in terms : autonomy and femininity have been shown to be irreconcilable . |
| 55 | He said he was not satisfied that the fire had been started deliberately , let alone who might have started it and that the scientific evidence was ‘ underlined by a number of assumptions which have been shown to be totally false ’ . |
| 56 | Certainly almost all of the characters that Burdon lists have been shown to be of selective importance either in clover or in some related species , though sometimes under very specialized circumstances . |
| 57 | Now , it turns out , they could n't be : in both Italy and Japan , the guardians of democracy have been shown to be enmeshed in corruption . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | However , head size , birth weight , and intelligence have been shown to be inversely and linearly associated with maternal phenylalanine concentrations , again without any obvious threshold in effect . |
| 60 | Five of the nine infants have been shown to be deleted from part of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene ( table II ) . |