Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure , the ‘ shame ’ attached to being held responsible for social dissensus , lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest . |
| 2 | How , she asks , can we account for evil in a world that has been created by a good God ? |
| 3 | In a recent review of Germany 's environmental performance , the OECD criticised the confusion in Germany 's definition of waste that has been caused by a desire to encourage recycling . |
| 4 | From this high moral ground the army had expected to challenge the record of human-rights abuses during its 17 years in power that has been compiled by a ‘ commission for truth and reconciliation ’ made up of seven lawyers from across the political spectrum . |
| 5 | Clearly , the specialists who see most cases are either venereologists or dermatologists , but many 's the case of secondary syphilis that has been treated by a general practitioner or physician with a variety of ointments or creams to great effect — syphilis having the doctor-flattering attribute of ‘ getting better ’ whatever the treatment . |
| 6 | The application of such an effect can change the intracellular structure of a cell that has been transformed by a cancer-causing agent , even in its latent stage . |
| 7 | And whereas a womb that has been occupied by a Future Buddha is like the shrine of a temple , and can never be occupied or used again , therefore it was that the mother of the Future Buddha died when he was seven days old , and was reborn in the Tusita heaven . |
| 8 | Visual difference on the same surface between a part that has been cleaned by a standard technique and the untouched area . |
| 9 | Jackson , Mississippi-based LDDS Communications Inc , Metromedia Communications Corp and Resurgens Communications Group Inc have now reached the letter of intent stage in their plan to merge with LDDS shareholders retaining about 68.5% of the combined company and John Kluge , chairman of Metromedia , expected to be chairman of the combined company with Bernard Ebbers , LDDS chief executive , taking that post ; the combined company will be the fourth largest long-distance carrier in the US , a title that has been held by a whole string of companies over the past few years . |
| 10 | Symbolically the owl sits on an Evil Eye that has been pierced by a spear , suggesting that the owl 's own ‘ Evil Eye ’ has been incapacitated by the mobbing display . |
| 11 | Schools that had been established by a church body ( or occasionally a trust ) became voluntary schools , of which there are three types : ‘ aided ’ , ‘ controlled ’ and ‘ special agreement ’ , differing mainly in the extent to which the LEA finances and controls them . |
| 12 | Whenever we work with data values that have been generated by a growth process , we will have a better chance of revealing regularities in their behaviour if we convert them first to logs . |
| 13 | Perhaps the discussion paper is making points that have been obscured by a dust storm of other allegations about the auditing performance of the Big Six . |
| 14 | I 'm not a frog that 's been kissed by a princess or whatever the fairy tale is . |
| 15 | The single , large , all-embracing , annually printed guide , covering all aspects of the library service , has largely disappeared , and has been replaced by a variety of new formats . |
| 16 | The money has been donated by Andrew Salvesen , former chief executive and chairman of the oil field services division of the Christian Salvesen Group , and has been matched by a £250,000 investment by Grampian Enterprise . |
| 17 | The other site has showed a commendably restrained policy in its charge levels for many years , and has been rewarded by a regular and large climbing clientele . |
| 18 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 19 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 20 | The conservatives at the Yard , who include the considerable figure of the Deputy Commissioner , John Dellow , believe that the Met has been reorganised quite enough recently and has been unsettled by a succession of commissioners , all with strong and mutually conflicting ideas . |
| 21 | Trading giant Mitsubishi Corp has gained exclusive sales rights for Japan to the SNA ps5520 software package that connects the IBM Corp AS/400 used as a host with the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh as a client : the company already sells a similar package which connects IBM mainframes and Macs ; the software , as reported , was developed jointly by IBM and Apple , and has been localised by a Mitsubishi-related software house and the package will be sold through IBM Japan office systems dealers , Mac dealers and systems integrators ; the SNA ps3270 emulator is already installed on a trial basis at some 10 large companies , Mitsubishi says ; it looks to sell around 5,000 copies over the next year . |
| 22 | This politics matters and has been addressed by a series of locality studies , notably that of Dickens et al. |
| 23 | They are now certain an explosion was caused by Pentrite , a plastic explosive which requires much less skill to handle than Semtex and has been used by a far wider range of terrorist groups . |
| 24 | Extrapolation based upon a mathematical formula has the appearance of a much greater degree of precision and has been used by a number of workers in Britain , e.g.Jones ( 1924 ) and Brown ( 1952 ) . |
| 25 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 26 | He had suffered vomiting , dizziness , tiredness and headaches and had been seen by a doctor in Winchester before returning to his family home in Scarsdale Road , Norris Green . |
| 27 | By early 1945 the " Caucasians " ( with a large number of women , children and camp followers ) were also in north Italy , near Tolmezzo and had been joined by a number of emigres , one of whom , Gen Sultan Kelich Ghirei , took command in April 1945 after the departure of their former German commander . |
| 28 | Seb could see the growing knot of men and the light of their torches , but now the shouting had ceased and had been replaced by a low , angry murmur . |
| 29 | Most previous tax allowances have disappeared ( the single person 's allowance , wife 's earned income allowance and married man 's allowance ) and have been replaced by a new personal allowance and a new married couple 's allowance . |
| 30 | Like the Conservative government , they dithered and have been overtaken by a recession which reduced their chance of success . |