Example sentences of "it [verb] been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been neglected relative to the study of conventional/street crime . |
| 2 | Colour is another consideration and here it has been kept pale and cool . |
| 3 | More recently , it has been demonstrated that casein kinase II ( CKII ) phosphorylates c-Jun at Thr-231 and Ser-249 both in vitro and in vivo ( 16 ) . |
| 4 | Yeah but i it has been done that , but |
| 5 | Traditionally it has been assumed that thinking , whether about value or about fact , has to be fully detached from the spontaneous , which engages with it only as emotion biasing judgement . |
| 6 | Furthermore , MDC 's capacity to meet the new challenges has to be questioned , since it has been granted limited additional resources and has recruited no extra staff to meet its wider remit . |
| 7 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 8 | In tropical countries the importance of maintaining the cold chain is recognised , but in temperate countries it has been given little attention until recently . |
| 9 | Recently , however , it has been given added emphasis and urgency by the growing appreciation that the damage being done to the environment by the use of fossil fuels may require drastic restrictions on their use . |
| 10 | An environmental statement was required from the company it has been given full publicity I believe that the Planning Committee and County Planning Committee today have sufficient information to come to a decision an informed decision . |
| 11 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
| 12 | Jail term : It has been confirmed that Briton Simon Dunn , 23 , a resident of Kuwait , is in a Baghdad jail serving an eight-year sentence for illegally entering Iraq . |
| 13 | It has been confirmed this week that political parties will no longer get financial subsidies , and the party urgently needs new sources of money . |
| 14 | ‘ Furthermore , it has been decided that Father should not carry laden trays of any sort for even the shortest distances . |
| 15 | However , to help centres , students and employers it has been decided that communication , numeracy and information technology should be assessed through modules which have been specifically designed to deliver these core skills . |
| 16 | It has been observed that sodium restriction tends to be more beneficial in hypertensives who have low plasma renin activity and in whom the aldosterone response to lowering dietary sodium is poor ( Vaughan et al , 1973 ) . |
| 17 | One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets . |
| 18 | It has been observed that reinfection of the grafted liver by HBV either alone or with HDV is common . |
| 19 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 20 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 21 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 22 | For example , in the case of the latter it has been stated that |
| 23 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 24 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 25 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 26 | It has been calculated that matter is at present being continually created at the rate of about 50,000 sun masses per second . |
| 27 | One of the main causes of recurrent famine throughout Ethiopia is the problem of massive deforestation , although in the regions of Wollo , Tigray and Eritrea it has been made worse by war . |
| 28 | It has been made possible by improvements in communication and organizational efficiency . |
| 29 | Like Peru , it has been made poorer by persistent misgovernment . |
| 30 | Now it has been made safe . |