Example sentences of "[adj] has be [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| 12 | This has been replaced by a move which is variously described as a return ‘ back to basics ’ , an attempt to ‘ focus on the core ’ or ‘ unbundling ’ .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 | The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The sharp fall in marriage rates since the early 1970s has been accompanied by a rise in the proportion of cohabiting couples . |
| 21 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 22 | The euphoria and sense of well-being which accompanied the boom years of the 1980s has been replaced by a mood of despondency as companies and individuals experience the effects of a western-style recession . |
| 23 | Even though the link between investment and growth is in some ways tenuous , it is interesting that the increased level of fixed investment in the UK in the 1980s has been accompanied by a much stronger growth performance . |