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

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1 Herein are contained significant elements of the dominant nineteenth-century ideology of local government-depoliticisation , economy and utilitarianism — around a limited conception of municipal enterprise that bore few traces of the brand of municipal socialism forced onto the political agenda by the labour group .
2 Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible .
3 Ensure flexi card and any other relevant items ie. keys , warrant cards etc. are returned prior to departure .
4 Now there 's concern about people like the Hinton twins who 've since been made redundant .
5 He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain .
6 He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body .
7 With regard to the Flower Fund , it had not perhaps been made clear that it had always been the intention that ‘ special occasions ’ should in-clude members who were ill and/or were in hospital , special birthdays , retirements , etc .
8 What follows is a consideration of a few vital food elements outlining their importance to the health of older people , and looking at the effect that dietary deficiency might have on what have hitherto been considered normal factors in the ageing process .
9 Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject .
10 Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable .
11 Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel .
12 ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him .
13 Although Laura would have liked a grand white wedding with all the trimmings , her mother had suddenly been taken ill , and clearly could n't manage all the organisation necessary for such an affair .
14 The form of protection requiring intermediate level , in-rack sprinklers quoted in paragraph ( 3 ) above have so far only been tested full scale , to stack heights of 15 metres .
15 Eagle brought an action against Savory Milln claiming that Savory Milln should account to Eagle for the £13.5m which had only been made available to Savory Milln to use by reason of fraud by Mr Ferriday , Eagle 's then chief executive .
16 Iraqi forces were debarred from using military aircraft , although it subsequently emerged that this had only been made explicit with regard to fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters .
17 In the first place , Retin-A has only been proved effective on those wrinkles which have been caused by sun damage rather than the inevitable march of time .
18 It had apparently been made aware of plans to alert green consumers to the slaughter of dolphins by Starkis — one of its subsidiaries .
19 At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway .
20 The Chibis suit ( resembling the lower half of a diving suit ) which the cosmonauts use to draw the blood into the lower pad of the body and legs has apparently been found unsuitable for women .
21 On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) .
22 Osteostracans ( cephalaspids ) have long been considered close relatives of lampreys despite a total difference in overall body shape .
23 Primitive man believed this ; this is one reason why the moon has long been considered feminine .
24 He had long been reported ill with kidney problems and was rumoured to have had throat cancer .
25 When her mother came into the room the picture was completed but the grass had all been coloured blue .
26 They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans .
27 On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings .
28 Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet .
29 There is an enormous range of substances that people can use in order to change the way that they feel , but the safest and most reliable ones , the drugs that have stood the test of time , have all been made illegal .
30 H.G. Wells wrote a story about a traveller in South America coming across a community of people who had all been born blind .
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