Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Such a man , with a good track record can fight for his plant and his people on the very strong grounds that investment in his region has been proven to be successful .
2 The standard method of recovery must be taught because it has been proven to be effective during testing .
3 This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in .
4 A trade union or union official calling its members out on strike is therefore protected but it has been said to be arguable that an individual striker has no protection against a claim that he uses unlawful means when he withdraws his labour because this situation does not appear to fall within section 13(1) .
5 Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample .
6 The canvassing by a member of other members of the court , for or against a forthcoming application , has been said to be improper : Macdougall v. Miller ( 1900 ) 8 S.L.T. 284 ; and has led to proceedings being quashed : R. v. Ferguson ( 1890 ) 54 J.P .
7 These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness .
8 It was , however , the advice of the law officers of the day , and it has been assumed to be correct ( inter alia by Parliament in the Royal Titles Act 1953 ) , that upon failure of male heirs , primogeniture should apply as well to females .
9 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 .
10 For one of Karl Barth 's disposition it could never be said that because something has been perceived to be natural by humankind , therefore it is the will of God .
11 This has been presumed to be desirable , as the only way in which to guard against indoctrination and rampant subjectivism .
12 in this issue , that EC merger policy , even since the introduction of the Merger Regulation , has been seen to be ineffective .
13 For the first time C&P has been seen to be green through a prominent presence on the ICI stand at a ‘ green ’ exhibition at Olympia , London .
14 For 60 years the Council has been seen to be independent of government and political parties .
15 A cultural change is in progress ; whereas deviant accounting practices had previously attracted muted adverse comment — even perhaps a degree of respect for the ingenuity sometimes shown — the standard demanded by the Panel has been seen to be exacting , requiring the spirit of the standards to be followed in addition to the detailed rules .
16 Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks .
17 In civil proceedings similar fact evidence has been held to be admissible where logically relevant provided that this will not be oppressive or unfair to the party concerned ( Mood Music Publishing v De Wolfe Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 Ch 119 ) .
18 Many countries , mainly those in the civil law tradition , have made this declaration , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Egypt , France , Germany , Luxembourg , Norway , Portugal , Seychelles and Turkey ( but not Italy ) ; accordingly an attempt to serve process via a United States Vice-Consul in the German Federal Republic has been held to be ineffective and the Netherlands Ministry of External Affairs was held to have acted properly when it refused to accept a document intended for service via the diplomatic channel on a defendant in France .
19 Accordingly , it has been held to be unfair to dismiss a man convicted of one isolated act of incest for which he received a probationary sentence .
20 ( b ) Public interest privilege Certain information has been held to be privileged because there is a public interest in maintaining its confidentiality .
21 This range of compositions is called the ‘ miscibility window ’ and has been reported to be present in other systems .
22 The prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia in diabetics has been reported to be similar to the non-diabetic population , that is from 8 per cent to as high as 52 per cent ( Hayes , 1972 ) .
23 Albendazole has been reported to be effective .
24 Diethycarbamazine has been reported to be effective .
25 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 .
26 In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ .
27 Certainly keeps them going on the grounds that eventually there will you know we 'll be able to say and this is what we believed this long and you know this is what has been proved to be necessary .
28 To my mind , evidence of conflict already exists : the deafening silence from Moorgate Place on Caparo is an example where self-interest has been allowed to be paramount : the decision suits the practising firms ( as their legal liability is narrowly defined ) , notwithstanding that in the public interest , would-be investors , existing individual shareholders and creditors who lose because they have relied on audited accounts which subsequently turn out to be defective , should , on any basis of equity , have recourse to those parties who are responsible , whether management or auditors .
29 A minimum complete three day stool collection with homogenisation has been shown to be necessary to minimise variation and most previous studies , with few exceptions , have not done this .
30 Against this evidence certain points must be made ; no trial of antiarrhythmic agents in patients with increased ventricular ectopic counts has been shown to be beneficial ; in the case of the Cardiac Arrhythmia ( CAST ) trial it has proven detrimental .
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