Example sentences of "[been] adopt [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that dichotic listening techniques have often been adopted without proper validation , findings which show a difference in the direction and/or magnitude of ear asymmetry between groups of right and left ( or non-right ) handed subjects have been taken as indicating a difference in direction or magnitude of cerebral lateralisation . |
| 2 | A more selective approach to underwriting Commercial motor business has also been adopted following adverse experience on major fleets . |
| 3 | This quantitative approach has been adopted to some extent by at least one local authority as the policy statement below illustrates : |
| 4 | The ASB also announced that changes based on the proposals in FRED 2 , Amendment to SSAP 15 — Accounting for deferred tax ( see this issue , p 96 ) , have been adopted with immediate effect . |
| 5 | The SIB 's new Conduct of Business Core Rule 28 has been adopted for this purpose . |
| 6 | The budget was the first to be based on President Hashemi Rafsanjani 's development plan for 1989-93 , which had been adopted after considerable debate at the end of January 1990 . |
| 7 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 8 | By the publication of the second edition the scheme had been adopted by 75 libraries , many outside the UK . |
| 9 | The Social Charter , which had been adopted by 11 member countries in December 1989 [ see p. 37132 ] , continued to draw much criticism from the UK during this period , particularly with regard to the rights of employees to consultation in the workplace . |
| 10 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 11 | For example , the idea of functional dispersal among a group of villages has been adopted in the structure plans for North Yorkshire , Gloucestershire and Cumbria , and a more flexible approach to allowing housing development outside key settlements has also been adopted by many counties ( Derounian 1980 ; J. M. Shaw 1982 ) . |
| 12 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 13 | Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 15 | By the early 80's 80 per cent of children were in comprehensive schools — the system not having been adopted by all education authorities . |
| 16 | These laws have been adopted by other states , as well . |
| 17 | Yet the notion of inter-hemispheric inhibition is one that has been adopted by other authors to explain how language becomes lateralised to the left hemisphere ( Gazzaniga , 1974 ) . |
| 18 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 19 | A clearing processing system has been adopted by each exchange for which LCH clears , except the metal exchange . |
| 20 | A common strategy to help clean up Central and Eastern Europe has been adopted by 50 environment ministers from Europe , the US , Canada and Japan . |
| 21 | Microwaves have been adopted by busy people up and down the country . |
| 22 | Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments . |
| 23 | This flexible approach to arranging help for childcare has been adopted by several companies . |
| 24 | He has studied the offspring of women with a history of schizophrenia who have been adopted by non-schizophrenic mothers . |
| 25 | A review of the way in which a systems viewpoint has been adopted by physical geography textbooks as well as in some research is justified because the alacrity with which the approach was adopted perhaps emphasizes that there was a clear need for a unifying approach . |
| 26 | The MacBride Principles have already been adopted by 24 states . |
| 27 | Two examples will illustrate the policies that have been adopted by different authorities . |
| 28 | Within months the sign had replaced the customary ‘ thumbs-up ’ and had been adopted throughout beleaguered Europe as a symbol of defiance to Nazism . |
| 29 | The distributed aspect contrasts sharply with the lumped nature of circuit representation of discrete components that has been adopted in all networks considered so far . |
| 30 | A policy of nothing less than ‘ state terrorism ’ had been adopted in Central America , the Middle East , Afghanistan and southern Africa . |