Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the positioning of players seems wrong and choice of instruments has presumably been dictated by the need for variety in a tiny space ( the original is quite small ) much remains plausible . |
| 2 | The data have mostly been provided by the organisations themselves . |
| 3 | I always thought the dropping of litter showed a lack of environmental relationship awareness , but could it also be linked with the " defacing " thing in that cities , streets with paving-slabs etc. are sensed by the human as too perfect and devoid of the texturous imperfections that make up the multi-levelled human life experience ? |
| 4 | Particularly important were his decision to tie Germany into the Atlantic Alliance externally and his demonstration that the ‘ social market economy ’ could work internally. : both policies had eventually been accepted by the SPD opposition , thus providing a fundamental consensus between the major parties regarding the shape of West Germany . |
| 5 | The point has since been confirmed by the House of Lords . |
| 6 | A President and a Council of Ministers were installed , but effective political power has since been exercised by the leadership of the sole legal political organization , the Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) . |
| 7 | Some of the report 's recommendations have since been implemented by the Hong Kong authorities but AI continues to call for each asylum-seeker to receive legal advice at all stages of the process and to receive an oral hearing when appealing against refusal of refugee status . |
| 8 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 9 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 10 | It seems that the Rub' al Khali desert of south-eastern Arabia occupies a structural offshoot of the Persian Gulf in which marine sands accumulated in the later parts of the Tertiary period and have since been reworked by the wind . |
| 11 | The area had effectively been abandoned by the authorities , a fact which became clear during the riot itself , when police waited five hours to enter the estate and put down the disturbances . |
| 12 | The periods when the light was on are shown by the bars below ( from Hubel 1988 : see Further Reading ) . |
| 13 | He next bestowed on his favourites all those offices that had hitherto been held by the Woodvilles , thus weakening their position and strengthening his own . |
| 14 | The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ( known as Transjordan until 1949 ) formally attained full independence in 1946 , having hitherto been administered by the United Kingdom under a League of Nations mandate . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Dorothy Richardson had suddenly been struck by the thought that the popular insistence of the happy ending was perhaps , however crudely expressed , ‘ the truth of life ’ and a tribute ‘ to their unconscious certainty that life is ultimately good ’ . |
| 16 | One thing was clear : he had certainly meant to kill him , and had only been stopped by the officer 's determined and intelligent fighting . |
| 17 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 18 | Jack Hassard , an NILP member of Dungannon Council , condemned the ban on the Market Square meeting , which had only been notified by the police at twelve o'clock the previous night . |
| 19 | If the story of Edmund 's connection with Swegen 's death does date from Cnut 's time , it is interesting , and seems to hint at one of the most resented aspects of Danish rule , that Edmund , like Ælfheah , had not only been martyred by the Danes , he had also refused to give them money . |
| 20 | This is not proof , of course , that there was no reasonable expectation of trouble ; the late announcement of the ban , however , gave credence to the assumption that it had only been prompted by the Apprentice Boys march , and that the Government , as in Dungannon , was allowing a loyalist organisation to manipulate the situation so that an opposition demonstration would be banned . |
| 21 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 22 | The sharp reductions in prices to the middle-sized customers that have occurred in the 12 months since the new market system came into effect have naturally been greeted by the beneficiaries with satisfaction , but the strategists worry over the implications for the long- term health of the industry and the economy . |
| 23 | An inquiry was opened to ascertain why the accident had occurred when both ships had apparently been warned by the West German coastguard that they were on a collision course . |
| 24 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 25 | The introduction of the price ceilings and the compensatory wage and pension rises had apparently been decided by the government only on March 19 , following the intervention of President Ion Iliescu . |
| 26 | The Institute had hoped that the Department of Trade and Industry would replace the existing Companies Act legislation with new provisions based on the Directives , but this route has apparently been dismissed by the DTI in its consultative document on implementation , because it would require primary legislation . |
| 27 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 28 | And having long been supported by the institution he will be crucially aware that it expects a degree of loyalty verging on deference or acquiescence . |
| 29 | He has long been regarded by the trade as one of the top sporting gun men in the business , with years of experience behind him . |
| 30 | Works of the 18th-century Enlightenment have long been collected by the Library to add to the existing collections : this year the purchase of the second edition of Adam Smith 's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ( London , 1778 ) enabled the Library to achieve a complete representation of editions of this most important work issued during the lifetime of the author . |