Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do nt believe everything I read and I only believe half of what I see , but if these words have been uttered by the ‘ poor mans Billy Bremner ’ , then even I think it 's a bit rich ! |
| 2 | Guidelines have been devised by the Network members to govern their conduct during the most common kinds of situations giving rise to contact between Network members . |
| 3 | The guidelines have been produced by the voluntary organisation Counsel and Care , which is dismayed by the government 's ‘ reluctance to provide official guidance ’ . |
| 4 | French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling . |
| 5 | These dramatic styles have been influenced by the look of the sixties . |
| 6 | National styles have been blurred by the diaspora of players in search of money — most of this summer 's Brazilian squad , for example , earn their living in the Italian league , and as a result the national team has inherited a less flamboyant , more pragmatic European style of play . |
| 7 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
| 8 | But most recipients who contacted The Northern Echo have been sickened by the views expressed . |
| 9 | Where all these steps have been taken by the balance sheet date , the cost of the redundancy programme will be reflected in the accounts for the year . |
| 10 | Even more radical steps have been taken by the electricians union ( EETPU ) . |
| 11 | In numerous jurisdictions , steps have been taken by the judiciary or legislature to limit or abolish the marital rape exemption . |
| 12 | What steps have been taken by the CITB to ensure a maximum register of employers and that none slips through the net ? |
| 13 | The soft clay cliffs on this coast have been eroded by the sea since Roman times and 29 villages have been lost to the sea . |
| 14 | Both offices have been hit by a combination of an increasingly complex type of enquiry and by greater demands on volunteers and salaried staff . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many directives under the single market programme have been implemented by the United Kingdom ; and what percentage have been implemented by the other EC members . |
| 16 | To take just two examples : in Nuremberg junctions have been remodelled to accommodate cafés and pedestrian-friendly squares ( Figure 6.49 ) , whilst in Freiburg narrow , calmed streets with insufficient space for extensive tree-planting have been greened by the simple expedient of growing climbing plants to mask the canyon-like street walls ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 17 | Any traces have been obliterated by the advance of the ethos that we have inherited from our Cro-Magnon ancestors . |
| 18 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 19 | His essay , ‘ Of Parents and Children ’ , still makes salutary reading , and by no means sings the praises of paternity ; it suggests that most of the ‘ noblest works ’ of civilisation have been accomplished by the childless . |
| 20 | Tough new rules governing the relationship between audit firms and their clients have been proposed by the Joint Ethics Committee of the English , Irish and Scottish Institutes . |
| 21 | Two sisters sentenced to life in prison for murder have been freed by the Appeal Court after it was revealed that the Police deliberately withheld crucial evidence . |
| 22 | Similar fates await buildings formerly owned by the secret police , which in many districts have been inherited by the local authorities . |
| 23 | The Christie 's pictures have been consigned by a European private foundation which is apparently intending to purchase more works with the proceeds , a surprising reason given the importance of the present group . |
| 24 | Even in the one case where independent evidence is claimed in the form of an abnormal enrichment in thin sedimentary layers of iridium and other platinum group metals , namely the much-publicized asteroid impact hypothesis for the end-Cretaceous extinctions ( Alvarez , Alvarez , Asaro & Michel , 1980 ) serious doubts have been raised by a careful analysis of some key palaeontological evidence ( Clemens , Archibald & Hickey , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 26 | Some scare-mongering tactics have been adopted by the Tories to compel us into participating the emp in employment action . |
| 27 | Mainly equipped for cruising , she numbers Reckman forestay furling , anchor windlass , upgraded primary winches , fully battened mainsail and autopilot among her shorthanded attributes , while creature comforts have been enhanced by the addition of deepfreeze , shore power/battery charger , second head/shower forward , T.V. , video and stereo system , leather upholstery . |
| 28 | In the past , some relationships have been destroyed by the knowledge that one person is positive and the other negative . |
| 29 | It has also been shown that blessings of lesbian and gay relationships have been celebrated by the Christian community since ancient times . |
| 30 | High-performance driving lessons for newly-qualified drivers have been started by the Tyro Driving Centre of Swindon , Wiltshire , using a dual-control Vauxhall Astra GTE 16v . |