Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 2 | In patients with a macroadenoma ( >1 cm in diameter ) of the pituitary a plasma prolactin concentration of >4000 mU/l , >6000 mU/l , or >8000 mU/l has been reported to be diagnostic of a prolactin secreting adenoma . |
| 3 | This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success . |
| 4 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 5 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |
| 6 | For 60 years the Council has been seen to be independent of government and political parties . |
| 7 | The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk . |
| 8 | As the plaintiff had not been shown to be guilty of contributory negligence , he was entitled to recover damages , on the grounds of negligence . |
| 9 | Although the mechanism by which dowsing works is not understood , the method has been shown to be capable of accurately locating buried archaeological features . |
| 10 | Salmon have been shown to be capable of the necessary olfactory discrimination , but the most direct evidence that they use their sense of smell comes from experiments , of the kind first performed by W. J. Wisby and A. D. Hasler , in which the salmon 's olfactory sense was impaired . |
| 11 | For example , in several cases in the present text , the object has been shown to be expressive of quite autonomous elements of the dimensions analysed , as function beyond efficiency , image of manufacture beyond actual construction , pure individuality , coherent style and so forth . |
| 12 | The movement to re-examine curriculum and methodology , which has been shown to be characteristic of teachers and educationists since the end of the Second World War , may take a variety of different forms , and become associated with a number of different fashions and bandwagons , but it is unlikely to come to a halt . |
| 13 | Although histamine stimulates the incorporation of H + , K + -ATPase rich cytoplasmic tubulovesicles into the apical membrane in parietal cells , it is unclear whether a similar phenomenon occurred in HGT-1 cells as they have been shown to be devoid of secretory organelles . |
| 14 | The all-over sole pattern has been found to be short of downhill adhesion and has disappeared from the market . |
| 15 | Instead , Sisson maintains that the real reason is that in Britain multi-employer bargaining has increasingly been found to be incapable of performing what employers regard as its major function , namely the neutralisation of the workplace from the activities of trade unions . |
| 16 | However , the same has again been found to be true of some normal schizotypal individuals and , notably , the genetically related children of schizophrenics . |
| 17 | Similarly , the payment schedule has been assumed to be independent of efficiency , but incentive schemes can be introduced where there are observable measures of output . |
| 18 | They have been encouraged to be suspicious of whatever may be ‘ unsound ’ ( a favourite Oxbridge concept ) ; they owe a sentimental and intellectual allegiance to the same few places ; barely one of them has a ‘ regional ’ accent . |