Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] by [det] [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 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 3 | A man can enjoy outdoor exercise on all but five days in a year " [ and this ] has been echoed by most energetic Englishmen … |
| 4 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 5 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 6 | I 'm delighted that justice has been done by that poor horse ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This inherent seriousness has been increased by such dour teachers as Calvin and Luther . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | QUALITY COUNTS in Lothian Regional Council and this has been demonstrated by another successful BS 5750 certification . |
| 12 | THE SEX APPEAL of Ian McShane , the leathery-voiced star of Lovejoy , has been questioned by some male critics recently . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His whole life , like my very early life , has been punctuated by these soothing ceremonies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His capitulation has been condemned by some comfortable historians , unthreatened by a London mob and remote from Stapledon 's horrifying end . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 23 | Nithard 's statement that they waited , as agreed , until 8 a.m. before joining battle , has been rejected by some modern historians , who think that Charles and Louis instead swooped before 8 on Lothar 's sleeping camp . |
| 24 | She tells me that her son has been influenced by some flighty little English madam to renege on his own responsibilities in order to give her a conducted tour of Copenhagen . ’ |
| 25 | The terrible attack on a taxi driver in St. Mary 's primary school yard today , which also affected the school children within that area , must be condemned and sympathy should be expressed to everyone who has been affected by this terrible act . |
| 26 | The importance of colour in the water has been emphasised by many successful zander men and I for one rate it as of paramount importance for daytime zandering . |
| 27 | This giant company has been formed by many smaller companies joining together to share their money , or capital , and their skills . |
| 28 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 29 | This energy related universal relationship has been confirmed by many subsequent studies . |
| 30 | Mike reckons that this part of Switzerland , which has been frequented by most top DJs , is one of dance music 's best-kept secrets . |