Example sentences of "been adopted [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |