Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] by [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 2 | Scottish Office officials said yesterday that a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) could be operational by 1996 , although its creation has been opposed by 40 local authorities and six of the seven river purification boards . |
| 3 | this appearance has been explained by multiple tiny bubbles produced by rotation of the impeller . |
| 4 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 5 | RE must endeavour to revive the natural awareness and sensitivity which most likely has been lost by middle junior school , and apply this recovered awareness to the religious vocabulary which pupils need to understand in order to make sense of religion . |
| 6 | A man can enjoy outdoor exercise on all but five days in a year " [ and this ] has been echoed by most energetic Englishmen … |
| 7 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 8 | Herringbroom Studio has been developed by three working painters — Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker . |
| 9 | Public sector housing , housing associations , building has been cut by two thirds . |
| 10 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 11 | I 'm delighted that justice has been done by that poor horse ) |
| 12 | This type of model has been implemented by many other large organizations including American Greeting Cards , Amoco Chemical Company , Atomic Energy of Canada , Bell Canada , Electronic Surveillance Command of the United States Air Force , North-western Bell , and Union Carbide . |
| 13 | This second year in the life of the Enterprise Centre has been characterised by both innovative ‘ pilot ’ programmes of enterprise work and by future development of initiatives commenced last year . |
| 14 | This inherent seriousness has been increased by such dour teachers as Calvin and Luther . |
| 15 | This finding has been supported by various other firms and factories . |
| 16 | Gamma-interferon may play a similar role in enteropathies with an immunological basis such as coeliac disease , and this has been supported by several recent findings . |
| 17 | The thinking of Conservative critics of the welfare state has been coloured by three broad influences . |
| 18 | QUALITY COUNTS in Lothian Regional Council and this has been demonstrated by another successful BS 5750 certification . |
| 19 | Stars like Joanna Lumley , Hayley Mills and Joan Plowright have been happy to give their support , and BNFL 's major sponsorship has been joined by Nuclear Electric , Norwest Holst and the Manchester Evening News . |
| 20 | THE SEX APPEAL of Ian McShane , the leathery-voiced star of Lovejoy , has been questioned by some male critics recently . |
| 21 | The confusion over Anglo-American relations has been compounded by some influential Americans , including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger , who subsequently argued that the United States should have backed the British over Suez in 1956 . |
| 22 | His whole life , like my very early life , has been punctuated by these soothing ceremonies . |
| 23 | Locomotives and the routes themselves have always attracted authors in profusion but in recent years that trend has been punctuated by some useful and illuminating titles on passenger and freight vehicles . |
| 24 | Mr Bush 's failure to acknowledge the need for financial compensation for the three main producer countries , Peru , Bolivia and Colombia , has been condemned by all three , but this criticism was conspicuously absent from their declaration . |
| 25 | His capitulation has been condemned by some comfortable historians , unthreatened by a London mob and remote from Stapledon 's horrifying end . |
| 26 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 27 | The incident in which boxes of fish were smashed and contaminated with diesel yesterday was the second in which fish being exported to Europe by the Ayr-based Scotprime , has been damaged by angry French workers . |
| 28 | The new scheme , which , it is hoped , will introduce tennis to some 20,000 youngsters over the next three years , has been masterminded by former British Women 's Team manager , Sue Mappin , most recently remembered for her success in staging the 1991 Federation Cup tournament in Nottingham . |
| 29 | For unlike other supposed causal determinants of crime , mental disorder has been accepted by most criminal jurisdictions as taking away some of the fundamental elements that constitute an act as a crime . |
| 30 | Even though the idea was firmly rejected , Pöhl was able to declare a month later that ‘ the German concept regarding the principles of a common European central bank has been accepted by most European governments ’ . |