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

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1 The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her .
2 One forgot in the early enthusiasm that the rotors had never been intended to be a ship 's prime movers , too much was expected of them .
3 It had , however , not been intended to be just an economic body .
4 This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) .
5 However , in the past , many observations have been recognized to be valid before any rational or logical explanation could be advanced to account for them .
6 The standard method of recovery must be taught because it has been proven to be effective during testing .
7 ‘ Such a man , with a good track record can fight for his plant and his people on the very strong grounds that investment in his region has been proven to be successful .
8 Those that have seemed to indicate that ESP might be at work have generally later been discredited : either the subject of the experiment has been proven to be a charlatan or the experimental procedure itself has been shown to be flawed .
9 The allergens produced by House Dust Mites have been proven to be dangerous ‘ triggers ’ especially for Asthma attacks and allergic Rhinitis ( nasal congestion without a ‘ cold ’ ) and even in cases of Eczema .
10 Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot .
11 In an attempt to raise further funds for the International League for the Protection of Horses fighting fund , a demonstration and clinic has been arranged to be given by Britain 's leading Western rider/trainer and judge , Bob Mayhew .
12 It 's not they have not yet been developed to be wholly reliable , and there are problems to be solved to do with the fluctuation in the wind power , but I think perhaps some of those are exaggerated .
13 3:16 ) ; and the Holy Spirit has been given to be our teacher ’ ( Willowbank Report 1978:10 ) .
14 ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela .
15 ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself .
16 Such focal points have been aligned to be both clearly seen from the house and as elements of surprise when walking through the garden , an essential element of any good design .
17 ‘ This will allow existing buildings and land that has been contaminated to be returned to use . ’
18 As a result , the uniform ‘ polises ’ often complain that ‘ the quality of prig has been forsaken to be replaced by quantity ’ .
19 Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles .
20 In the bat , the five fingers have been programmed to be long in order to support the web for flying .
21 Some had in fact been praying to be ‘ rescued ’ !
22 Coun Jack Warwick ( Lab ) a retired Yorkshire Water authority official and Coun Eric Dixon ( Ind ) a retired education authority officer , have both been nominated to be next Mayor of Scarborough .
23 The court may require any property transferred as part of the transaction to be vested in the company , release any security given by the company , require ‘ any person ’ to make payments to the administrator or liquidator in respect of benefits received by him from the company , provide for a guarantor whose obligations have been discharged to be under revived obligations , provide for security to be given for the discharge of obligations imposed by the order and for the priority which such security shall have , and provide for the extent to which persons may be able to prove in the winding up .
24 In fact , UI claims the whole Roadmap process has been recast to be user-rather than independent software vendor-focused , detailing user-specific information such as when their suppliers will provide them with certain technologies .
25 Visibility had been forecast to be generally over ten kilometres , but falling to three to five kilometres in drizzle , with scattered stratocumulus cloud to the east of the area , base 2,000 feet , increasing to broken cover to the west with a base of 1,500–2,000 feet , with occasional scattered/broken stratus base 800–1,000 feet .
26 The paramount mistake has been that the intelligence of the individual has been permitted to be clouded by childhood teaching to such an extent that he has been persuaded that the religious writings came from some other source which renders them inviolate .
27 It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ .
28 The prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia in diabetics has been reported to be similar to the non-diabetic population , that is from 8 per cent to as high as 52 per cent ( Hayes , 1972 ) .
29 The decrease in total cGMP has been reported to be only 10–15% ( ref. 24 ) , but the decrease in free cGMP has not yet been measured .
30 Responses to hypoglycaemia in a laboratory setting have been reported to be different in patients taking human and animal insulin .
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