Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 3 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 4 | Construction work on the world 's largest hydroelectric project , in Northern Quebec , Canada , has been halted by a ruling from the National Energy Board that the project must comply with federal guidelines on the environment . |
| 5 | Letter signed ’ , as distinct from ‘ Autograph letter signed ’ , means that the letter has been written by a clerk or secretary but that the king has added his signature . |
| 6 | Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit . |
| 7 | Perhaps a similar report has been written by a colleague and is retained on a word processing disk . |
| 8 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 9 | In the past , the study of onomatopoeia , and of imitative effects generally , has been vitiated by a tendency to assume that there is a direct evocative connection between a particular sound and a particular reference , say between an /s/ sound and the sighing of the wind or ( here ) the hiss of a steam-engine . |
| 10 | The scanning device has been developed by a company in Upton Bishop in Herefordshire . |
| 11 | Fuel bond AN ADDITIVE that bonds diesel fuel and water to create a solution that burns cleanly without loss of power has been developed by a team led by Prof David Thorley of City University . |
| 12 | Such underdrawing has now provided a significantly more accurate way of dating the famous palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and El Castillo , Spain , and Niaux in the French Pyrenees has been developed by a team of French and Spanish scientists . |
| 13 | It has long been recognised that the human factor is just as significant an influence on rates of erosion as physical features , as has been highlighted by a study of potential versus actual erosion in Zimbabwe by Whitlow ( 1988 ) . |
| 14 | The answer , according to Mr Michael Reich of the Harvard School of Public Health , is that the industry has been nurtured by an arm of the Japanese government that had no interest in exporting , making it a victim of government intervention . |
| 15 | A SENTENCE for indecent assault passed on a 47-year-old former prison officer has been cut by a half on appeal at Craigavon Crown Court . |
| 16 | This notion has been adopted by a number of animal learning theorists ( e.g. Spear 1973 , 1981 ; Hirsh 1980 ) . |
| 17 | One corporate-centred bargaining strategy in the form of ‘ coalition ’ bargaining has been adopted by a number of US unions since the 1960s . |
| 18 | and that has been done by a marketing exec who goes round the country contracting with those clients . |
| 19 | This has been done by an emphasis on individualism , self-help , hard work and thrift , whilst at the same time there has been an attack on collectivism and socialism as repressive and unworldly values . |
| 20 | Braverman 's radical analysis of work organisation at the operational level has been extended by a number of writers concerned to explore its implications for these wider organisational issues . |
| 21 | As a result of Pepper v. Hart , this rather artificial notion has been extended by a presumption , which may be grounded in a degree of political reality . |
| 22 | Tranmere striker Tommy Coyne has been sidelined by a flu bug , but Charlton remains optimistic that he can shrug off the effects in time for Wednesday . |
| 23 | The mid-1980s has been characterised by a shift in emphasis in the educational debate . |
| 24 | For my purposes , it suffices if I say that one of the questions was whether an original lessee is liable to pay a rent which has been increased by a variation in the terms of the lease reached between the assignee and the landlord . |
| 25 | At a stroke our artistic patrimony has been increased by a treasure which is about to go on display after being unseen for seventy years . |
| 26 | The risk of flooding has been increased by a combination of factors . |
| 27 | MORE than £300 has been raised by a group of Barlaston employees and friends in a sponsored walk for the British Epilepsy Association . |
| 28 | The desirability of continued economic growth has been raised by a number of economists over the past decade and the titles of their publications make their conclusions clear — Does Money Buy Happiness ? |
| 29 | For a country which has been disabled by a generation of violence , forgetting may be impossible . |
| 30 | Another very successful collection of my pictures has been made by a lady who is very keen on yellow roses . |