Example sentences of "has been criticized " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since Gide has been criticized in this respect it is something which needs to be addressed . |
| 2 | One anthropologist who studied an even more elaborately created system of autonomy than the Zuwaya 's has been criticized for ignoring routine and frequent contact between autonomous leaders and state governments : so it is academically important to probe into the actual relations of Zuwaya and Magharba with the Turkish authorities . |
| 3 | However , his analysis has been criticized as ‘ abominably sexist not to mention atavistic ’ ( Reed , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | The government has been criticized for not making enough effort during the period of high copper prices to diversify Zambia 's economic base , and especially to encourage agricultural development . |
| 5 | The crisis of resources in public education has also brought to a head questions about the relevance of the present curriculum , which has been criticized as too academic and élitist , and the rigidity of the education system generally . |
| 6 | For example , it has been criticized for being unable to deal with problems of unemployment , which continued to rise throughout the 1980s . |
| 7 | The Department of Health guidelines ( 1984 ) have recognized the involvement of the general practitioner in the assessment of patients who harm themselves , although the vagueness of its recommendations has been criticized ( Kessel 1985 ) . |
| 8 | The study has been criticized for incompleteness of data , but it was a major step forward , and the results obtained were so positive that further research was stimulated . |
| 9 | Few would deny that there are elements of truth in this explanation , but it has been criticized as incomplete because of its bias towards élites and its failure to explain why nationalist symbols had such wide appeal . |
| 10 | The expenditure of public money on this , yet another television service , has been criticized in some quarters , but the Governor told me his decision was based on the fact , as he saw it , of NTV 's pro-Federal bias . |
| 11 | The World Wildlife Fund , in 1988 renamed the Worldwide Fund for Nature , has been criticized , largely unjustly in my view , for not saving endangered species such as the African elephant , the panda and the black rhino . |
| 12 | Psychological work on ‘ race ’ has been criticized inside and outside the discipline for deploying and strengthening dominant racist discourses . |
| 13 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 14 | Cixous has been criticized for lacking a politics and a theory of the social . |
| 15 | However their interpretation has been criticized on several counts which show that ‘ the family-firm analogy is misleading and generally overworked ; its character is usually symbolic or ideological rather than descriptive ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.432 ) . |
| 16 | Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments . |
| 17 | Such neglect has been criticized by authorities such as Goodhart and Veljanovski . |
| 18 | The Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for not dealing with the passing of property or with priority conflicts between the seller/buyer and a third party . |
| 19 | The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds . |
| 20 | Thus the Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for excluding questions relating to the validity of the contract of sale , the transfer of property , or the resolution of property disputes between the seller or buyer and a third party . |
| 21 | How may the message be disentangled from the original imagery through which it was conveyed , or is this to distort and change its meaning Farrer has been criticized by Ian Barbour who writes : ‘ By his appeal to authority , Farrer makes ‘ authorized images ’ immune to criticism … . |
| 22 | His theory has been criticized by Manton ( 1960 ) . |
| 23 | However , the Board has been criticized for over-concentration on economic development at the expense of social development ( Carter 1974 ) . |
| 24 | Kuhn 's demarcation criterion has been criticized by Popper on the grounds that it gives undue emphasis to the role of criticism in science ; by Lakatos because , among other things , it misses the importance of competition between research programmes ( or paradigms ) ; and by Feyerabend on the grounds that Kuhn 's distinction leads to the conclusion that organized crime and Oxford philosophy qualify as science . |
| 25 | The provision in section 44(4) has been criticized on the ground that it is wrong in principle that a person should be found guilty of an offence which the jury find that he did not commit . |
| 26 | While the concept of headship has been criticized on empirical and political grounds , see for example Murphy ( forthcoming ) , it is necessary to use it here because it is the familiar way of presenting data and also because many data from earlier years are available only in this form . |
| 27 | The notion of the sociolinguistic variable whose variants are assumed to lie on single co-extensive phonetic and social dimensions has been criticized by ( amongst others ) Hudson and Holloway ( 1977 ) ; Romaine ( 1978a ) and Knowles ( 1978 ) . |
| 28 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 29 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 30 | There is an index to the schedules , but this has been criticized in connection with the inadequate size of its entry vocabulary , the number of entries in the index only exceeding those subjects listed in the schedules by about 25 per cent . |