Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] by [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Maxwell name has been reviled by 20,000 pensioners outraged that £400 million had been pillaged from their pension funds . |
| 2 | It has been increased by 27 posts . |
| 3 | The initial problem is that Major is a Conservative and Clinton is a Democrat , and although party differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship , the problem has been compounded by two incidents during the US election campaign . |
| 4 | THE anniversary of the Gulf War ceasefire has been commemorated by 35 members of the Darlington Gulf Support Group who gathered in the town hall . |
| 5 | That option has been rejected by two members , however — the noted mountaineer Eric Langmuir , who serves on the north-east board of SNH , and John Hunt , reserves manager for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 6 | With the company rejecting this request , the workers have gone on strike … while the strike has been in full swing a second union has been organized by 800 workers under the auspices of Zenro [ right-wing union federation ] with a new slogan of ‘ immediate acceptance of dismissals and reopening of production ’ . |
| 7 | Troublesome Behaviour has been devised by four actors working with director , Martin McNicholas . |
| 8 | The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement . |
| 9 | The Association of French Businesses for the Environment has been formed by 15 companies , chaired by president of Rhone-Poulenc , Jean-Rene Fourtou . |
| 10 | Since the beginning of the 1990–91 session , Westminster Week has been replaced by two programmes ; the first , Out of Westminster , sets parliamentary issues in a regional context and involves local MPs from each region , and the second , called Scrutiny , deals with the work of parliamentary committees . |
| 11 | Mr Chairman councillors , ladies and gentleman as chairman of the village Association I am pleased to present the following petition which has been signed by 174 residents representing over ninety five per cent of the . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |
| 14 | Our knowledge of the development of language in the primary school years has been informed by two approaches . |
| 15 | Mr Wilkie will shortly be receiving an AST 3/335 Bravo personal computer with 4Mb Ram , 80Mb hard disk drive , 14 in colour monitor , Dos , Windows and a mouse , which has been supplied by 20/20 Systems of Cowdenbeath and AST Europe . |
| 16 | In addition , a new generation of North Sea developments is in prospect — the Clair field ( BP : x% ) , for instance ; and our inventory of discoveries has been enlarged by two years of heavy exploration activity . |
| 17 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 18 | Socially and demographically the period has been dominated by two factors — the fall in the size of families and the increase in the expectation of survival to retirement , the effects of which are still far from having exhausted themselves . |
| 19 | If he is anything like me , he will have been struck by three things . |
| 20 | George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service . |
| 21 | The missing funds are believed to have been deposited by four clients . |
| 22 | A Crown Court jury saw an extract from the film said to have been watched by two defendants a fortnight before the alleged murder attempt . |
| 23 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Opened for signature at UNCED in Rio in June 1992 [ see ED 59-60 ] , the biodiversity convention had 160 signatories to date , and had been ratified by six countries ; it thus needed 24 more ratifications in order to come into effect . |
| 26 | As of Oct. 31 , 1989 , it had been ratified by 15 states ( see pp. 35984 ; 36565 for Turkey 's ratification in February 1988 ) . |
| 27 | By the publication of the second edition the scheme had been adopted by 75 libraries , many outside the UK . |
| 28 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 29 | America , like Spain itself , had been ruined by three centuries of theological intolerance and political despotism ; if a unitary liberal constitution was the remedy in Spain , it must also be the remedy in America . |
| 30 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |