Example sentences of "been [verb] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One forgot in the early enthusiasm that the rotors had never been intended to be a ship 's prime movers , too much was expected of them . |
| 2 | Those that have seemed to indicate that ESP might be at work have generally later been discredited : either the subject of the experiment has been proven to be a charlatan or the experimental procedure itself has been shown to be flawed . |
| 3 | And ma'am , just on a brief note of clarification , the report which has been referred to was a report prepared by the County Planning Officer , endorsed and I think was prepared in his name and was presented t to a working party of Greater York authorities . |
| 4 | In general this owl has been considered to be a woodland species preying on woodland rodents and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 5 | It has been considered to be a pool car . |
| 6 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 7 | Accordingly , laminin has been considered to be a marker of fibrogenesis . |
| 8 | Eventually , of course , the dug-outs return with the news that prices and demand had increased on other islands also and that what had erroneously been considered to be a series of relative price and demand shifts turned out to have affected all islands equally . |
| 9 | An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand . |
| 10 | If we had won all the Tests but lost all the one-dayers , then it would have been considered to be a successful trip . ’ |
| 11 | Although he had not formally announced his candidature Olympio , son of President Sylvanus Olympio who was himself assassinated in 1963 , had been expected to be a very popular presidential candidate . |
| 12 | It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 13 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 14 | And finally , a lack of interest in and control over their children on the part of parents has been argued to be a vulnerability factor for these children in adult depression ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 15 | However , this has not been seen to be a very effective set of policies . |
| 16 | This respect for authority has appeared throughout the examples given , but it has also been shown to be a respect within certain limits . |
| 17 | ( The selenium analogue of has recently been shown to be a semiconductor . ) |
| 18 | Cannabis Teenagers often insist that cannabis is harmless , but it has been shown to be a high risk for certain users . |
| 19 | Garlic extract has also been shown to be a valuable first line of defence against oral thrush . |
| 20 | Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can : |
| 21 | Dictionary definitions constitute a valuable source of semantic knowledge , and the definitional overlap technique has been shown to be a suitable method for applying such knowledge . |
| 22 | However , linear precedence has been shown to be a significant factor affecting the manner in which words associate with each other [ Church & hanks , 1989 ] . |
| 23 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 24 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
| 25 | The tenure of a person 's housing has been shown to be a consequence of marital breakdown in many cases . |
| 26 | RAP30 has been reported to contain a sequence homologous to region 1b and 2 of σ factors of bacteria , which has been shown to be a binding site for the core component of E.coli RNA polymerase and possibly for mammalian RNA polymerase II ( 19,40 ) . |
| 27 | The 1983 Conservative Party manifesto argued ( p. 37 ) that the six metropolitan county councils and the GLC had ‘ been shown to be a wasteful and unnecessary tier of government ’ . |
| 28 | This claim has been shown to be a considerable misstatement . |
| 29 | The mythopoeic power of music has already been shown to be a decisive force in Greek literary history . |
| 30 | Roughly speaking , plain , unemotional , ordered " talking " , which is heavily dependent upon our ability to recognize and encode binary discriminations ( distinctive features in phonology and logical oppositions in argument ) , has been shown to be a function of the left hemisphere of the brain , while emotional responses , which are the consequence of reactions to sensory inputs from outside , are a function of the right hemisphere . |