Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] by [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fee has been cut by approximately half , from £20,000 to £10,000 . |
| 2 | People will not give up lightly what they have gained under this Government , and they will not easily embrace a creed that has been rejected by so many nations in recent years . |
| 3 | The poll tax ( a.k.a. the community charge ) has been discredited by almost all politicians , even Darlington 's Conservative MP Michael Fallon , but for administrative and bureaucratic reasons it lumbers into its third year this April . |
| 4 | Utility player John Moore has been hit by yet another injury blow . |
| 5 | The rules are still valid and the libretto of any ballet neglecting them often fails to hold the attention of its audience because the content has been weakened by too many irrelevances . |
| 6 | My moral sense has been dulled by too many years here . |
| 7 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 8 | Recent reports show that funding for training within County Durham has been reduced by as much as 20pc . |
| 9 | Never could they have been visited by so many young girls . |
| 10 | The new excise rate proposals replaced the compulsory uniform rates which it had originally proposed in 1987 , but which had been rejected by nearly all member countries . |
| 11 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 12 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 13 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 14 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Well so many of these songs have been done by so many people that you would be forgiven for thinking that , that . |
| 16 | The COSLA report estimated that official estimates of costs and savings have been miscalculated by as much as £100 million . |
| 17 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |
| 18 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 19 | The government 's praiseworthy efforts to improve efficiency in health and education have been undermined by too little cash . |