Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round . |
| 2 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 3 | For day to day purposes a knowledge of the following has generally been found to be useful to practising managers : |
| 4 | But this general expectation has already been shown to be misleading in his approach to the monastic life of the community at Canterbury . |
| 5 | Thirdly , the only course of action if some form of handicap is detected , is to have an abortion , as the handicap has already been shown to be present in the foetus . |
| 6 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 7 | Recently some migrant African and Chinese populations have also been found to be susceptible to non-insulin dependent diabetes , and people of European origin might be the only true ‘ low susceptibility ’ group . |
| 8 | The International Air Transport Association has also been held to be subject to the EC competition rules for the same reason . |
| 9 | The POU domain has also been shown to be important for protein-protein interactions ( 55 ) . |
| 10 | The risk of postoperative infections in patients in which a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease had not been established preoperatively had also been shown to be high . |
| 11 | Changes in the gall bladder , such as the increased absorption of water and the hypersecretion of mucous glycoprotein have also been shown to be responsible for cholesterol gall stone formation . |
| 12 | It was an area in which competitive private enterprise in the supply of water had early and clearly been shown to be deficient . |
| 13 | LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another . |
| 14 | As he recited familiar words , Jaq puzzled why he had really been detailed to be present on Stalinvast during its purge . |
| 15 | Even if the contribution of bronchial asthma to cause of death is interpreted generously — for example , part I of the death certificate states death from asthma and part II states chronic obstructive airways disease — only 63 of 100 deaths have so far been found to be attributable to asthma . |
| 16 | Since the late eighteenth century , there had developed the ‘ perfectionist doctrine ’ which claimed that ‘ government of the people by the people ’ was most appropriate , but according to Bryce , this had now been shown to be wrong . |
| 17 | It is said that assumptions on which he was apparently prepared to proceed have now been shown to be unsound . |
| 18 | The distribution of price changes or returns has often been found to be leptokurtic . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real . |
| 21 | However , the same has again been found to be true of some normal schizotypal individuals and , notably , the genetically related children of schizophrenics . |
| 22 | The carboxy-terminus has previously been demonstrated to be essential for Oct-2 to activate transcription ( 20 , 44 , 45 ) . |
| 23 | Certainly the reliance now of necessity of such systems demands , and fortunately the nature of these types of premises is likely to permit , a much closer relationship between the ‘ business end ’ of the system and the valves which control it than has previously been considered to be necessary . |
| 24 | In this study nifedipine plus diuretic lowered blood pressure more effectively than propranolol plus diuretic , which has previously been shown to be effective in black hypertensive patients . |
| 25 | The same RNA samples from several cell lines were probed for ATF1 RNA , β2-microglobulin RNA ( as a monitor of differentiation ( 46 ) ) and CREB RNA which has previously been shown to be present at similar levels in UF9 and DF9 cells ( 47 ) . |
| 26 | This domain has previously been shown to be important for transcriptional activation ( 44 , 45 ) . |
| 27 | Contrary to the official establishment line on fluoride , this substance has never been shown to be essential for body function , and its role in protecting teeth from dental caries is extremely doubtful . |
| 28 | It was generally believed that there was some animosity between ‘ Lenny ’ and Herbert von Karajan , although this has never been shown to be true , so the atmosphere in the Philharmonie was electric . |
| 29 | Charles had never been carefree , never been allowed to be childish or make mistakes like his peers , never had friends to call on and pour his heart out to . |
| 30 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |