Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof , but it has been rigorously defended by brilliant minds and can not be lightly dismissed . |
| 2 | Although no one has set up an experiment to show that horses in a mentally enriched environment have superior intelligence to those reared in a mentally deprived environment , this has been frequently shown with smaller animals . |
| 3 | published by the Royal Historical Society , London , in 1945 , it has been frequently reprinted with minor corrections . |
| 4 | Because of the variety and confusion of possibilities and responsibilities after the compulsory school period the need for a guide has been widely recognised by young people and their families . |
| 5 | The Spielberger anxiety scale consists of twenty statements that gauge how respondents feel ‘ right now , at this moment ’ and has been widely evaluated in healthy American adults and in non-psychiatric hospital inpatients . |
| 6 | Gerald Egan 's model of ‘ The Skilled Helper ’ has been widely adopted as most suitable for this type of advice work . |
| 7 | For this reason , the footnote-reference system has been widely displaced by other accepted techniques , such as the system which we now describe , and which we would recommend . |
| 8 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 9 | The term ‘ Personnel Management ’ has been widely used for 50 to 60 years to describe a range of activities , a body o& knowledge and a set of skills associated with the recruitment , administration and development of staff . |
| 10 | The Adaptive Behavior Scale requires a rater to record the level and/or consistency of individual performance in living skills ; it has been widely used in American and British studies of deinstitutionalization . |
| 11 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 12 | This exercise is valuable in helping to show how a distorted version of Freud 's ideas has been widely diffused within many institutional spheres of American life , from social work agencies to industrial management training , religious institutions , and to the private sphere of marriage and family life . |
| 13 | Traditionally a strong , fast draught breed ( and therefore horned ) the Limousin is now an important and popular beef and veal breed which has been widely exported to European countries and to North America , Australasia and South Africa . |
| 14 | This distinction has been widely overlooked in modern missionary strategy to the extent that when a church has resulted in a particular country , it has been assumed that an adequate base for evangelisation has been established . |
| 15 | Declining heavy industry has been partly replaced by small engineering firms and some light industry . |
| 16 | ‘ This profit has been partly achieved by increasing output and meeting tight expenditure budgets , ’ said Mr Hann . |
| 17 | Since the collapse of Leyland-Daff the only entrance to its sales headquarters has been partly blocked by heavy trucks . |
| 18 | The scheme — intended to let the public draw directly on scientific knowledge — has been partly prompted by recent panic over the contamination of food by listeria and salmonella , public concern about how to store and cook food , and issues such as food preservation through irradiation . |
| 19 | Tom McCormack , senior depute director of the Highways Department , has taken part and the initiative has been well supported by all our staff . |
| 20 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 21 | The range of general categories of need has been well covered by existing literature . |
| 22 | Thank you Mr Mayor , erm I I want to be very brief Mr Mayor , that the debate on houses and rent increases has taken place and has been well aired over recent weeks and I do n't have any intention tonight of re-debating those issues . |
| 23 | In contrast with the differences in adhesins and hydrophobicity , the mucosal isolates from colitic patients were more commonly β-haemolytic than were isolates from non-inflammatory bowel disease controls , as has been well documented for faecal isolates from colitics and also for Crohn 's disease . |
| 24 | The speech has been well received by Muslim leaders throughout Britain … in Oxford its being hailed as milestone in race relations . |
| 25 | AI 's documentation has been well received by non-governmental organisations and the press inside Peru . |
| 26 | Although the intensive system of subject assessment takes up a good deal of time , it has been well received by these two centres . |
| 27 | So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology . |
| 28 | We all know about the crisis in agriculture which has been well described by many hon. Members . |
| 29 | A sports pavilion in Pallister Park has been badly damaged by two fires , one last Thursday and one late on Monday night . |
| 30 | Staff morale has been badly affected by past reorganisation and by the poor ‘ leaves on the line ’ and ‘ wrong-kind-of-snow ’ publicity . |