Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The concept of field dependence was first discussed by Witkin ( 1950 ) and has since been discovered to be a relatively stable trait of the individual .
2 Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB .
3 Candidates have hitherto been required to be UNIP members and endorsed by the party 's central committee .
4 An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand .
5 Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round .
6 So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area .
7 In fact , Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland .
8 In Britain , for example , Merseyside , Sheffield and Glasgow have long been considered to be ‘ red islands ’ within British society : the labour movement having forced out of the state substantial levels of collective housing and welfare provision .
9 Heparan sulphate proteoglycan , laminin , and collagen have all been shown to be linked across cell membranes to cytoskeletal elements , and cytoskeletal proteins have been demonstrated to be condensed at cell-cell and cell-matrix interfaces .
10 Further , the expression of a α4β1 binding site in the cellular form and its deletion in plasma fibronectin and the involvement of fibronectin in blood clotting as well as secretion and synthesis of fibronectin have all been reported to be differentially affected by alternative splicing ( 27,41 ) .
11 Formation of clusters with unprimed T cells has thus been shown to be a functional feature of dendritic cells ; this may explain the striking appearance of S-100 protein + cells in Peyer 's patches , which are considered important sites for induction of primary immune responses .
12 Since 1948 , for example , the elderly have no longer been deemed to be the financial responsibility of their adult children or grandchildren .
13 The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics .
14 They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron .
15 In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] .
16 In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam .
17 For day to day purposes a knowledge of the following has generally been found to be useful to practising managers :
18 Singer 's utilitarianism , for example , has already been seen to be eminently manipulable .
19 Thirdly , the only course of action if some form of handicap is detected , is to have an abortion , as the handicap has already been shown to be present in the foetus .
20 But this general expectation has already been shown to be misleading in his approach to the monastic life of the community at Canterbury .
21 The mythopoeic power of music has already been shown to be a decisive force in Greek literary history .
22 There is a rapidly growing body of literature supporting the efficacy of MRI for evaluating patients with bone marrow malignancy , and the technique has already been shown to be highly sensitive for detecting bone marrow metastases even in the absence of abnormal pain radiographs , conventional computed tomograms and radionuclide studies .
23 I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer .
24 The stationary state has just been taken to be one in which population is stationary .
25 Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses .
26 That content too has always been felt to be linked to the aesthetic in some way — though again as of late , in theoretical studies this has not been examined .
27 The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force .
28 The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry .
29 In the 1970s a series of controlled trials compared the drug with other neuroleptics , and whereas no other drug has ever been shown to be more effective than chlorpromazine ( Largactil ) , clozapine was found to be so in six out of thirteen studies .
30 Empirically , the assumption of constant interest rates has usually been found to be an acceptable approximation .
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