Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public sector housing , housing associations , building has been cut by two thirds . |
| 2 | LCCIEB has been endorsed by MCI to jointly seek accreditation to deliver MCI Level 3 ( for Supervisors ) and Level 4 ( for Junior Managers ) . |
| 3 | On the community charge , the funding for local authorities has been increased by 6.1 per cent . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co has been chosen by 7-Eleven Japan Co Ltd to supply an open-system-based computer network worth more than $12.5m , which will link 7-Eleven headquarters in Tokyo and about 30 district offices throughout Japan : the system consists of five HP 9000 Series 800 business servers and more than 200 HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations and HP 700/RX stations , to be linked to an Hitachi Ltd mainframe . |
| 5 | The most serious forms of illness are those where the patient 's ruwai or smell has been taken by one of these beings . |
| 6 | Material collected for the study on the 1983 general election has been used by two researchers , John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , to update the Nuffield study , and to examine the extent of social mobility a decade after the end of the post-war period ( John H. Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , ‘ Trends in intergeneration class mobility in England and Wales , 1972 — 83 ’ , Sociology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , February 1986 ) . |
| 7 | In the case of Mars the atmospheric quantity for N has been multiplied by 10 to allow for the escape of N to space . |
| 8 | Will the Minister confirm that the British library 's acquisitions budget has been cut by 41 per cent . |
| 9 | Labour claims that central government capital spending on schools has been cut by 29 per cent in real terms since 1979 , while LEA spending has been squeezed mercilessly . |
| 10 | In the 1980s the United Kingdom New Issue market in equities has been affected by two major developments . |
| 11 | The number of doctors and dentists has been increased by 17,000 , and the real resources committed to GP services have doubled since 1979 . |
| 12 | The islands deal has been approved by two of Japan 's most influential businessmen , Gaishi Hiraiwa , chairman of the Keidanren ( Federation of Economic Organisations ) , and Rokuro Ishikawa , chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce . |
| 13 | The next annal in E is not until 1028 , and hence it is quite feasible that the 1025 entry has been dislocated by one or even two years . |
| 14 | Vellayati said afterwards , however , that " it has been impossible to propose any plan as each attempt has been rejected by one side or the other " . |
| 15 | Public sector housing investment has been cut by seventy percent . |
| 16 | Notice that the interest rate is divided by 12 to give the rate per month and the term has been multiplied by 12 to give the period in months . |
| 17 | In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent . |
| 18 | In Kingston , for example , the list of those waiting more than 12 months has been reduced by 77 per cent . |
| 19 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave told an NHS managers ' conference in London that in January long term waiting lists had been cut by thirty percent . |
| 20 | Within the ancient royal estates ( and later hundreds ) of Cannington and North Petherton , a large holding had been assembled by 1066 belonging to the Saxon Alfwy . |
| 21 | The Milwukee Project broke into the national news , when S. P. Strickland implied , in the July 197 I issue of American Education , that the IQs of children in Heber 's study had been raised by 33 points . |
| 22 | 15,000 homes had been built by 1988 , with a projection of 30,000 by 1995 ’ ( Source : LDDC estimates ) |
| 23 | Light-scattering measurements showed that the concentration of the micelles had been increased by 60 per cent . |
| 24 | Whilst accidents are increasing , health and safety inspectors have been cut by 20 per cent . |
| 25 | The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement . |
| 26 | Another factor that needs to be considered is the fate of the antibody titres once their formation has been triggered by one or more of H pylori antigens . |
| 27 | The budget act has been characterized by one scholar as ‘ the most important piece of domestic legislation since the Social Security Act of 1935 … ( bringing about ) a marked shift in the substance of domestic policy and in American federalism . |
| 28 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 29 | That plea for assistance has been answered by two keen runners , Hilda Mills and Roseanne Partridge , from The Body Shop in Lewisham . |
| 30 | The number of blocks has been reduced by 25 per cent to 125 and the number of blocks with working interests of 10 per cent or less has been reduced by 42 per cent . |