Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | investment ) , tourism and weaving underpin the fragile economy which is or has been augmented by local centres of enterprise such as the oil platform fabrication yard at Arnish near Stornoway ( now closed ) , the rocket-range support base at Ballavanich , the military developments at Stornoway airfield and scattered small scale initiatives such as fish processing and , notably , salmon farming in sheltered bays and sea lochs . |
| 2 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 3 | Rather he had discovered , or had been forced by historical development , to discover the limitations of his anti-royalism . |
| 4 | To equate this ‘ avowed objective ’ of social policy with its real objective , as Marshall seems to do , involves an acceptance of a particular ideology about the ‘ welfare state ’ that has been challenged by various writers . |
| 5 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 6 | Usually it has something to do with the needs created by sharing : sharing the task of killing a large prey , sharing the task of defending the group against predators , sharing body heat to keep warm at night ; sharing out different duties that can be performed at the same time ; sharing the food that has been obtained by special members of the group ; and so on . |
| 7 | Yet the notion of inter-hemispheric inhibition is one that has been adopted by other authors to explain how language becomes lateralised to the left hemisphere ( Gazzaniga , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | I accept everything that has been said by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House about the need for a stronger line against terrorism . |
| 9 | In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought , security is shaky . |
| 10 | As environmental standards rise , especially for water quality , people worry more about cleaning up land that has been contaminated by past dumping . |
| 11 | Not all of the intercrystalline porosity that has been generated by late leaching is necessarily preserved because the host dolomites appear to have been compacted as leaching progressed , reducing the final porosity of the rocks ( Fig. 22b ; Clark 1980a ) . |
| 12 | The policy remains the policy that has been followed by successive health ministers from Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell through to Keith Joseph and myself — namely to make the health service as effective as possible . |
| 13 | The significance of a fifty-year cycle in Jewish life , with the remission of debts , the release of slaves , etc. , was eventually responsible for the practice that has been followed by successive Popes , since 1300 , in declaring a Jubilee of the Roman Church every fifty years . |
| 14 | St Helena , in the South Atlantic Ocean , is another example of an island that has been transformed by human activity . |
| 15 | Given the suffering and misery that has been incurred by holy wars , crusades against infidels , inquisitions and the like , the strength of Gandhi 's position becomes clearer . |
| 16 | One red herring that has been produced by increased language awareness among teachers has been to try to rewrite academic texts so that pupils can cope with them . |
| 17 | Yet , if there is one principle that has been established by scientific investigation time and again , it is that physical violence is the least effective form of negative reinforcement when it comes to moulding a child 's behaviour . |
| 18 | THE commodity group , Berisford International , looked set yesterday to take over C&J Clark , the family-controlled shoemaker that has been wracked by internal feuding . |
| 19 | Although the tax cuts were lower than many commentators had predicted , Lamont forecast a higher public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) for both the 1991-92 and 1992-93 financial years than had been expected by financial analysts . |
| 20 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 21 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 22 | Recent bootprints were marked in the thin coating of green sandy soil that had been blown by gentle breezes over the buildings . |
| 23 | The attempt had been strengthened by the respect and admiration for Russian arms that had been aroused by Russian resistance on the eastern front . |
| 24 | Whatever generalizations might have been true at the level of national policy , it was becoming evident towards the end of an era that had been marked by political consensus that in Greater London and some of the other metropolitan areas the public accountability and operational methods of the police were no longer consensual . |
| 25 | We killed time by looking at classic cars that had been driven by classic car ‘ lovers ’ as they called themselves all the way from southern Italy . |
| 26 | A major step in evolution was taken when cells that had been produced by successive splittings stuck together instead of going off independently . |
| 27 | Erm were you under any er any any pressure to accept erm g g goods that had been acquired by indirect roots ? |
| 28 | Two examples will illustrate the policies that have been adopted by different authorities . |
| 29 | Here are some of those that have been raised by various scientists . |
| 30 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |