Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That technique has been considered by many interested in waste management , because it achieves considerably higher volumes of reduction than incineration , and seems to offer good prospects for even better pollution control standards . |
| 2 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 3 | Whether light as well as heat is generated in these reactions has been questioned by some critics . |
| 4 | This route has been followed by many of our European competitors — notably Germany . |
| 5 | The ability of a prime minister effectively to call a general election has been regarded by some writers as the most important weapon in ensuring parliamentary support . |
| 6 | It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme . |
| 7 | A possible Christian presence has been suggested by several fourth century burials in the Northover cemetery , because of their east-west orientation and similarities with Poundbury , but this evidence is insufficiently conclusive . |
| 8 | The Quality Framework described in this Update has been shaped by those responses . |
| 9 | Induction cooking has been hailed by many as the cooking revolution . |
| 10 | That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 11 | Despite his fame amongst his contemporaries , Gassendi has been overshadowed by those whom he influenced — perhaps because of the modesty and undogmatic nature of his arguments , which lie buried in lengthy , copiously annotated Latin works . |
| 12 | This intake of children from ethnic minority groups has been associated by some with difficulties within the school , such as ‘ declining standards ’ and ‘ discipline problems ’ . |
| 13 | Thus the inception of a new focus for the study of chronology has been promoted by such stimulating developments and Bowen ( 1979 ) points out that the CLIMAP group have discovered significant evidence which supports the idea that the immediate future is one of adverse orbital geometry and general cooling and hence that ‘ the prediction of the future must rest on the past in the present ’ ( Bowen , 1979 , p. 181 ) . |
| 14 | It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning . |
| 15 | Spalding concludes that , with few exceptions , such as the tin miners in Bolivia , labour has been coopted by these mechanisms and not proved itself to be a revolutionary force . |
| 16 | Ritual has been regarded by several anthropologists as a social event in which pent-up emotions can find some form of release . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy . |
| 19 | The effect of pure ethanol on gastric acid secretion has been investigated by several workers . |
| 20 | A further point in relation to the accusation of the ethnocentricity of Freud 's assumptions about gender roles has been made by some people in the Women 's Movement , such as Kate Millet and Ann Oakley . |
| 21 | In recent weeks the force has been accused by some in the Protestant community of being ineffective in the fight against the IRA , and by some Catholics of being less vigorous in tackling loyalist violence . |
| 22 | The Oxfordshire Club has been described by some experts as unique and a course for the twenty first century … what makes it so special is a mixture of three styles … of classic English with trees … of links with sand dunes … and of American type holes landscaped by lakes … it 's been designed by Rees Jones |
| 23 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 24 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 25 | The three individuals were all ‘ phoned by a sultry female voice informing them that their bid had been matched by another . |
| 26 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 27 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking . |
| 29 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 30 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |