Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Older fans have been irked by this change of direction . |
| 32 | According to the Link 's busy manager Ken Lee , the Woodland Road offices have been contacted by several other business ventures around the which are interested in emulating Darlington 's success . |
| 33 | A sector which is under pressure from imports may seek voluntary export restraints on the part of the foreign suppliers ( a wide range of Japanese exports to the United States have been affected by such agreements ) . |
| 34 | My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows . |
| 35 | Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police . |
| 36 | The proposal has been welcomed by some local councillors . |
| 37 | A large roadside car park has been made and from it a track has been worn to the saddle on the ridge ; the steep climb has been helped by this path formed since my first visit . |
| 38 | Coronary vasoconstriction has been suggested by several case-reports but full cardiac investigations have seldom been carried out . |
| 39 | Marlborough 's art work has been accused by some critics of being too prescribed , a charge Robin Child refutes , insisting that ‘ there has to be a starting point , a language learnt ’ . |
| 40 | Unless there is a contract governing the transaction , it is suggested that when the conveyance or transfer has been executed by all parties a completion date should be arranged so that the necessary searches can be made by reference to that date and the matter completed . |
| 41 | The length of life we can expect to enjoy has gone up markedly over that period and the number of children who die before the age of five in developing countries has been reduced by half . |
| 42 | The capitalism of the Chicago meatyards has been replaced by that of the information system ; ‘ … organizations have shed more than one million managers and staff professionals since 1979. … technology will enable senior management to monitor and control large organizations more effectively … |
| 43 | So ‘ bureaucratic ’ pluralism has been used by some in recognizing the more important role of Japanese civil servants ; this has been further qualified as ‘ bureaucratic-inclusionary ’ pluralism to suggest that the widest possible range of citizen consultation is used to assess the national interest . |
| 44 | The campaign has been denounced by some leftwing union activists as a diversion from the need for industrial action . |
| 45 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 46 | Over the last 12 years , he claims , the council has been short-changed by that amount on its housing allocation demands . |
| 47 | Sport has been called by many , including such opposing writers as Robert Boyle ( 1963 ) and Paul Hoch ( 1972 ) , a ‘ mirror ’ reflecting , in often exaggerated ways , aspects of social life . |
| 48 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 49 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 50 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 51 | An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man . |
| 52 | His voice was low , easy , the faint accent she 'd barely noticed before more pronounced now , unless it was just that her senses had been heightened by that devastatingly thorough kiss . |
| 53 | When she reached there she found that Ann and Ruth had been joined by several other girls , including Sarah , and were just about to start their game . |
| 54 | Ganev and the UDF had been angered by some documents leaked in late February in an attempt to smear him , and had demanded that the secret services by placed under the control of the Interior Ministry rather than the Presidency as at present . |
| 55 | Two subject areas have been energised by this very physical application of paint ; garden scenes and old women . |
| 56 | Britain 's natural dry grassland areas have been reduced by half over the past 50 years , and much of the remainder is under threat from destruction , according to a study co-ordinated by the Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) . |
| 57 | Experiments aimed at investigating this issue have been reported by many workers ( e.g. Anderson , O'Farrell , Formica , and Caponigri 1969 ; Anderson , Wolf , and Sullivan 1969 ; Dexter and Merrill 1969 ; Bouton and Bolles 1979 ; Lovibond et al . |
| 58 | In the past year-and-a-half , 2,500 Colombians have been killed by such groups and a further 250 have disappeared after being detained by security forces , according to Amnesty . |
| 59 | Mergers of health authority-run services with trusts have been criticised by some opponents of the Government 's NHS reforms as obtaining trust status ‘ by the back door ’ . |
| 60 | ‘ We regularly come into contact with elderly people whose lives have been ruined by such cowardly attacks , ’ said a spokesman . |