Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Women often are as important as men in making and keeping these links , which is one reason why the importance of the kin network in employment frequently has been missed by other researchers , who have looked for people with the same surname .
2 While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) .
3 Yet the notion of inter-hemispheric inhibition is one that has been adopted by other authors to explain how language becomes lateralised to the left hemisphere ( Gazzaniga , 1974 ) .
4 Stabilization of open complexes by DNA supercoiling has been observed in other promoters ( 23–26 ) .
5 This favourable attitude to the individual use of tape-slide material has been observed in other studies .
6 Such behaviour has been observed in other butterflies on tropical river banks .
7 Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know .
8 MacLink also has a role to play in the translation of information once it has been transferred by other communications systems ; simple serial links , modem or Email based file transfer or the third main method for getting files between Macintoshes and PCs , disk exchange .
9 This attractive hypothesis has been extended to other groups of plants and their ‘ consumers ’ suggesting that under certain circumstances plants may benefit from those animals that feed on them and , indeed , may positively ‘ encourage ’ such herbivory .
10 Chair of the Fire Board , Councillor Bill Axon , said : ‘ The Fire Service has been perceived as a male-dominated , macho career where women ca n't participate , but it has been proven in other brigades that women can take part on an equal footing to males . ’
11 ‘ Let's at least try to solve the immediate problem with a practical step that has been proven in other parts of the country , ’ he said .
12 The design of this study is now well known and has been analysed by other workers .
13 In this discussion , I will confine myself to discussing examples of sexism from the English language , though of course it exists and has been analysed in other languages too .
14 The same process has been documented in other situations where a people have been conquered , colonised and their cultural beliefs assaulted .
15 Despite this apparent lack of official enthusiasm , progress has been made in other areas .
16 On the other hand it is worth mentioning that the hypothesis of decreased left hemisphere activity during the hypnotic state has been supported by other workers using different response measures .
17 The problem has been compounded by other factors , including increased water abstraction and land drainage .
18 ‘ We are worried about compensation claims from passive smokers whose health has been damaged by other people 's bad habits , ’ said councillor Frank Anderson .
19 A similar result has been obtained by other workers who grafted the polarizing region from an aborted human embryo into the chick .
20 WITH regard to the ambulance dispute , the Minister frequently says that they should accept the 6 ½ per cent , which has been accepted by other health service unions .
21 Similar reasoning has been applied in other cases ( see eg Mendelssohn v Normand Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 177 ; Jaques v Lloyd D George and Ptnrs [ 1968 ] 1 WLR 625 ) .
22 It is submitted that these conclusions are wholly unjustified ; it has been rejected by other United States courts and it is difficult to see what purpose would be served by the inclusion of Article 10(a) in a convention on service of process if that was not its subject-matter .
23 So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous .
24 The physical survival of computer discs , and of the hardware and software appropriate to reading them , has been tackled by other organisations , including the Public Record Office , and we are grateful to be able to draw on their experience .
25 At the Palazzo Reale there is a forceful competition for attention between seventeenth-century paintings on display and the highly distinctive interiors designed by Pelagio Pelagi in the nineteenth century , although a much more satisfactory integration has been achieved in other parts of the palace , especially in the Galleria degli Specchi , designed by Domenico Parodi around 1730 , which complements the exhibition of large canvases by Gregorio De Ferrari and Domenico Piola .
26 Accordingly , you can show your reader that your critical judgements are based on what you know has been achieved by other writers you have read ( effects which can therefore be compared with each other ) .
27 The birds ' filters enhance their sensitivity to red , and this has been exploited by other creatures .
28 This point has been emphasised by other writers .
29 This tendency has been exacerbated by other factors too : the invention of new and more effective methods of communication , such as newspapers and television , has rendered the propaganda value of coinage less significant ; technological changes , such as the invention of modern methods of factory production of coins , have tended to fossilise the significance of the designs they bear ; and , particularly , the recent invention of new forms of money , including banknotes and credit cards , has enormously reduced the role played by coinage in the monetary and economic activity of modern states .
30 — it could be used to present language — either for the introduction of new areas of language or to supplement what has been taught by other means and methods ;
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