Example sentences of "has [adv] be describe [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers .
2 There are all the industrial hazards such as excessive noise , polluted air and contamination of water by industrial waste and , as has already been described in detail , a large-scale problem in the form of accidents .
3 The same kind of critique has already been described in relation to the adolescent ‘ personality ’ and to the role played by habits and principles in working-class life .
4 1980 ) has already been described in the family network meeting ( Pottle , 1984 ) .
5 This has already been described in Chapter 7 .
6 The data used by Chamberlain ( 1989 ) has already been described in Section 8.2.2 .
7 The Chernobyl accident in the USSR has already been described in chapter 1 .
8 The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of
9 However , in the absence of factual information , we can only say that there is no scientific evidence for the theory that carp can tell if the food is doing them good and will , therefore , prefer this to what has delightfully been described as a crap bait .
10 Elias ' theory of the civilising process has also been described as a history of manners , in which changing patterns of living are documented , and within which what he refers to as ‘ affect ’ becomes increasingly regulated .
11 One previous case of bilateral ureteric obstruction after pancreatitis has been reported and it has also been described in an alcoholic patient with a large pseudocyst .
12 Colitis , which is histologically similar to ulcerative colitis , has also been described in association with pellagra .
13 This connection between past experience relevant to the current event and the interpretation of the event has also been described in studies of grief following bereavement .
14 This case , together with the above transformation , has also been described by Yurtsever ( 1988 a ) .
15 It has also been described from eastern Canada with fish remains very like those of the classic Scottish sections .
16 The form of this message has often been described as " myth " .
17 Cream 's ‘ fraternal individualism ’ , for instance , is easily metamorphosed into ‘ elitist exhibitionism ’ ( musically , this is the development from Cream to what has often been described as the ‘ empty virtuosity ’ of many later ‘ guitar heroes ’ ) ; similarly , the ‘ thinking ’ of unpredictable extended forms , given the predictable lulling rhythms and bland timbres of Mike Oldfield , is turned into LP-length ‘ easy listening ’ ; the ‘ psychedelic sound ’ becomes exactly that : a fetishized label , isolated from the radical harmonic/rhythmic context it has in ‘ Strawberry Fields ’ , and pinned on to simple Top Ten dance tunes , as a tribute to the middle class ideology of riskless hedonism .
18 The form of intonation has now been described in some detail , and we will move on to look more closely at its functions .
19 Hodgskin has frequently been described as a ‘ Ricardian socialist ’ , but the description is more ironic than accurate .
20 It has even been described as a fundamental moral precept by more than one Irish catholic cleric : ‘ The law of the Church is quite definite , quite universal in this matter .
21 This religious settlement has sometimes been described as a via media between Catholicism and Protestantism .
22 Ivan Boesky , Dennis Levine , and Geoffrey Collier have been publicly vilified for engaging in what has sometimes been described as the ‘ unacceptable face of capitalism ’ .
23 For example , when Audrey has previously been described as ‘ a strapping lass ’ … who ‘ fought boys … ’ ‘ led her own gang ’ … was ‘ as good climbing trees and drainpipes as any boy ’ , why is it that she is the only one to reach the fortress ‘ limping and sobbing ’ ?
24 It has variously been described as a " bear baiting session " and " a ritual exchange of non information . "
25 Perhaps the genetic linkage that has recently been described between type I and type II diabetes is a determinant of the β cell proliferative compartment and its response to early nutrition .
26 I think this illustrates in a very nice way what has recently been described as a new erm family circle .
27 The best non-human example that I know has recently been described by P. F. Jenkins in the song of a bird called the saddleback which lives on islands off New Zealand .
28 b Literature The occurrence of psychiatric illness in residential care has recently been described by Ames et al ( 1986 ) among many .
29 This approach has recently been described by a variety of investigators for studying protein/protein interactions in general and leucine zipper interactions in particular ( 39-43 ) .
30 A cephalic phase of this response has recently been described in normal subjects and in the irritable bowel syndrome , again emphasising the link between the ‘ big brain ’ ( central nervous system ) and the ‘ little brain ’ ( myenteric and submucous plexuses ) in the gut .
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