Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |
| 2 | This is not an immutable law , but the correlation has been sufficiently demonstrated to be a valuable guide . |
| 3 | He had been so determined to be ungullible , city-wise that perhaps he had gone too far in the other direction , and so read a threat in everything the big city had to offer . |
| 4 | Concise definitions have been specially written to be understood by learners |
| 5 | Although changes at the sensory-motor synapse might occur during the habituation of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex , they have not yet been formally shown to be either necessary or sufficient for that behaviour . |
| 6 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 7 | The time spent on the herb garden is probably less than on any other part of the whole garden ( unless it has been deliberately planted to be labour-saving ) , but shortage of time is less of a problem than money , since the herb-garden is a hobby , undertaken for enjoyment and relaxation . |
| 8 | A role of the balance between the activity of pro and anti-nucleating protein has been also suggested to be a differentiating factor for the nucleation time . |
| 9 | The Havelok text ( Bodleian MS Laud Misc 108 ) is one of those sources that has been traditionally thought to be the work of an Anglo-Norman scribe ( Sisam , 1915 ) on the grounds that the spelling is highly variable in the respects specified by Skeat and indeed in some other respects also . |
| 10 | One , entitled Apostolic Tradition , has been plausibly conjectured to be a church order ( directions for liturgy and the proper ordering of the community ) certainly of the early third century and probably from Rome . |
| 11 | Salter told the inquiry how his ‘ bobbing duck ’ device — a duck-shaped canister which , when installed in lines out to sea , would continually extract energy from the waves — had at that time ( 1982 ) been officially estimated to be capable of producing electricity at about 5 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) . |
| 12 | Floroscopy in these circumstances has been previously reported to be inaccurate , detection of impacts on the lithotrite also proved to be inaccurate , and ultrasound immediately after the procedure was non-contributory , showing diffuse echogenicity throughout the gall bladder lumen . |
| 13 | This Na Channel element has been previously proposed to be common to a number of neuronal genes . |
| 14 | So in no case have the neutrons been definitely proved to be due to the random motion of deuterium associated with a temperature of the order of five million degrees . |
| 15 | There are many well documented cases in which a seemingly benign stricture on radiological grounds has been subsequently shown to be malignant . |
| 16 | These conclusions lead her to argue that rationality has been falsely assumed to be the criterion of political adulthood , and that rationality does not entail autonomy . |
| 17 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 18 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |