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

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1 The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself .
4 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 ) .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot .
9 Even the shape and colour of an article have been held to be acceptable as trade marks .
10 Both assault and battery have been held to be statutory offences : DPP v Little ( 1991 ) 141 NLJ 965 ( DC ) .
11 Often , both in America and in Britain , hostile takeovers have been shown to be reckless , mistaken and damaging .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 These drugs have been shown to be effective against all stages of lungworms with a consequent amelioration of clinical signs .
15 The modern benzimidazoles , levamisole and ivermectin have been shown to be effective .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Where systems have been shown to be weak , the risk would be high .
21 Conversely , circulating eosinophils have been shown to be negative , whereas they apparently may express L1 after extravasation into inflamed tissue .
22 In this instance health reports specify the pathogens which have been shown to be absent from the animals .
23 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 ) .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 These tests have been shown to be reliable in detecting H pylori infection in patients with and without renal failure .
29 But to the anorexic , that last phrase is a contradiction in terms : autonomy and femininity have been shown to be irreconcilable .
30 Psychological theories of semantics have been shown to be important , since the human information processing system is the best example of a language processing system , and that such theories attempt to produce cognitive models that should be computationally implementable .
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