Example sentences of "[adj] have been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allocation for London in the current financial year 1991-92 has been cut by a further 8 per cent . |
| 2 | and that has been done by a marketing exec who goes round the country contracting with those clients . |
| 3 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that has been obtained by a false representation , has ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse inference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 4 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that has been obtained by a false representation , has ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse inference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 5 | This has been emphasised by a series of British chiefs of the defence staffs , by the chairman of NATO 's military committee , by former US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara , and by Lord Zuckerman , formerly chief scientific adviser to the minister of defence and to the prime minister . |
| 6 | This has been followed by a ‘ Special Edition ’ featuring one locomotive only , 71000 , ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ . |
| 7 | This has been exacerbated by a continuing tendency for clients to reduce the size of their marketing departments . |
| 8 | Critics also argue that this has been compounded by a policy which has unfairly favoured the private sector in preference to the public sector . |
| 9 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
| 10 | This has been achieved by a rhetoric which unfavourably contrasts present-day France and its sizeable population of North African immigrants with the myth of a former , well-ordered France , devoid of Arabs . |
| 11 | I am satisfied , and this has been confirmed by a recent independent review , that that support is effective in generating investment and jobs . |
| 12 | This has been replaced by a move which is variously described as a return ‘ back to basics ’ , an attempt to ‘ focus on the core ’ or ‘ unbundling ’ . |
| 13 | This has been encouraged by a build-up of phosphate levels as a result of fertilizer run-off from the intensively farmed areas in the river basin . |
| 14 | And this has been translated by a gentleman by the name of Stanley Clog |
| 15 | At the same time this has been accompanied by a determined push by the German authorities through the EC institutions to impose a Community-wide statutory minimum wage to counter the high wage costs of West Germany . |
| 16 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 17 | Mr. Karsten submitted that once the mandatory effect of article 12 has been relaxed by a finding under article 13 , either under sub-paragraph ( a ) or sub-paragraph ( b ) , this gives rise to the exercise of a discretion by the court . |
| 18 | Could this have been avoided by a ‘ more rational ’ form of emancipation ? |
| 19 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 20 | There had been a bulb on the staircase but this had been removed by a stranger , for whose actions the defendants were not responsible . |
| 21 | Most necklaces were still unsold when the beads were identified and withdrawn , but some had been bought by a craft worker in Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics . |
| 23 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has declared that the improvement in the quality of water in rivers and lakes in the 1960s and 70s has been followed by a decade of " small but real " deterioration . |
| 24 | By use of the alphabetical sequence , it gathers together all aspects of a concrete subject which are likely to have been scattered by a discipline-orientated approach in the basic order of the scheme . |
| 25 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 26 | These have been calculated by a technique misleadingly known as ‘ programme budgeting ’ . |
| 27 | These have been followed by a number of local area surveys usually commissioned by Labour-controlled councils and usually focusing on inner city areas . |
| 28 | The fifth paragraph of that has the proposed council tax bands the county council services but these have been amended by a letter you 've been sent dated the twenty- first of January , as a result of information from council regarding their tax base . |
| 29 | While there is some truth in this assertion , there is a broad measure of agreement about the essential components of case management and these have been summarized by a number of authors and practitioners ( Challis and Davies , 1986 ; Kanter , 1989 ; Hunter , 1990 ; Onyett , 1992 ; Moxley , 1989 ; Thornicroft , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | These have been labelled by a variety of writers as career launch ( early thirties ) , crisis ( late thirties to early forties ) , achieving and mellowing ( forties/fifties ) , and retirement ( sixties ) . |