Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For white middleclass males , however , pride and dignity has little resonance , when all your life you 've been trained to be aspirational and competitive . |
| 2 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |
| 3 | However , in the past , many observations have been recognized to be valid before any rational or logical explanation could be advanced to account for them . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
| 5 | It is worth mentioning , however , that it is not always the nasal pathways that have been observed to be superior ( Neill , Sampson and Gribben , 1971 ) and that naso-temporal differences have sometimes been observed for one eye but not for the other ( Overton and Weiner , 1966 ; Markowitz and Weitzman , 1969 ; Beaton , 1977 ; 1979a ) . |
| 6 | The implication is that the R , D and D or centre-periphery model had been wrongly conceived in its application to education , because it was premised on the possibly mistaken view that people are rational beings who will implement ideas that have been demonstrated to be effective . |
| 7 | Families have been felt to be rigid , narrow , and highly constraining institutions which repress the individual and stop the development of his or her individuality . |
| 8 | The allergens produced by House Dust Mites have been proven to be dangerous ‘ triggers ’ especially for Asthma attacks and allergic Rhinitis ( nasal congestion without a ‘ cold ’ ) and even in cases of Eczema . |
| 9 | Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot . |
| 10 | Even the shape and colour of an article have been held to be acceptable as trade marks . |
| 11 | Both assault and battery have been held to be statutory offences : DPP v Little ( 1991 ) 141 NLJ 965 ( DC ) . |
| 12 | Often , both in America and in Britain , hostile takeovers have been shown to be reckless , mistaken and damaging . |
| 13 | Furthermore , PGE type compounds have been shown to be effective inhibitors of FMLP activated human neutrophils , making it even more unlikely that indomethacin induced inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase underlies the ability of indomethacin to attenuate FMLP induced chemiluminescence from neutrophils . |
| 14 | Polynuclear aromatic compounds have been shown to be effective as carcinogens , especially when in particulate form , while statistical associations have been noted in men between atmospheric pollution and coal mining . |
| 15 | These drugs have been shown to be effective against all stages of lungworms with a consequent amelioration of clinical signs . |
| 16 | The modern benzimidazoles , levamisole and ivermectin have been shown to be effective . |
| 17 | ZNF proteins contain ‘ finger ’ motifs consisting of approximately 30 amino acids which coordinate a zinc ion , and were first described in the Xenopus transcription factor IIIA ( 6,7 ) , but have been shown to be present in species as diverse as Drosophila and man . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some techniques , such as cost analysis and cost minimisation analysis , proceed on the basis that the alternatives under consideration have been shown to be equivalent in effectiveness . |
| 20 | In these experiments , two kinds of learning have been shown to be possible in a nervous system with fixed cell numbers and connections , by altering the effectiveness of synapses . |
| 21 | Where systems have been shown to be weak , the risk would be high . |
| 22 | Conversely , circulating eosinophils have been shown to be negative , whereas they apparently may express L1 after extravasation into inflamed tissue . |
| 23 | In this instance health reports specify the pathogens which have been shown to be absent from the animals . |
| 24 | Such elements are relatively poorly characterized , but different structural features such as acidic regions with amphipathic helices , glutamine-rich , proline-rich , and serine/threonine-rich domains have been shown to be involved in activation of transcription ( 36,64–66 ) . |
| 25 | In other systems , far upstream and/or downstream sequences of tissue-specific genes or gene families have been shown to be involved in position-independent , copy number-dependent expression of associated genes in transgenic mice . |
| 26 | In experimental animals , gangliosides have been shown to be protective in a number of conditions including anoxic ischaemia , models of Parkinson 's disease , central nervous system trauma , autoimmune neurological disease , and peripheral nerve injury . |
| 27 | Moreover , a Marxist-Leninist analysis of foreign-policy formulation in the United States ( which would have been accepted by Guevara and also by Raúl Castro , both extremely powerful figure ) implicitly makes two assumptions which have been shown to be inaccurate : firstly , that the ’ bourgeoisie' always act in concert , and secondly , that the ruling group has control over the statements of major Interest groups within society . |
| 28 | Liposomes , which in clinical trials have been shown to be non-toxic and non-immunogenic , may be safer than viral vectors which have the inherent risks of immunogenicity , replication and transmission . |
| 29 | These tests have been shown to be reliable in detecting H pylori infection in patients with and without renal failure . |
| 30 | But to the anorexic , that last phrase is a contradiction in terms : autonomy and femininity have been shown to be irreconcilable . |