Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of the matrimonial home has been recognised increasingly by the legislature . |
| 2 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 3 | The German Bund contract was strong from the outset , probably due to the previously unsatisfied demand for derivatives based on German bonds , but this has been strengthened considerably by the reunification of Germany and the resulting uncertainty about long term yields on German paper . |
| 4 | The involvement of several amino-acid receptor subtypes in the induction of LTP has been determined largely by the use of antagonists and is described in Box 2 . |
| 5 | Half my body has been cut away by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 6 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 7 | That has been spurred on by the successful growth of that sector in Britain . |
| 8 | The influx coincides with a boom in the building sector , which has been spurred further by the need for housing for the refugees themselves . |
| 9 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 10 | The relationship between States directly injured by a violation of international law and other States has been explored further by the International Law Commission in its work on State Responsibility . |
| 11 | This point has been reinforced further by the findings of Goldsmith and Newton ( 1986 ) who show that , while the Thatcher government has been very directive towards local authorities on council house sales , by contrast it hardly involves itself in matters of environmental health ( a reflection of the much lower priority the Thatcher government gives to this policy area ) . |
| 12 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 13 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 14 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 15 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 16 | The other point I would make is the further that the new settlement is from York itself , then the greater would be the dependency upon the motor car , this has been born out by the paper that has been submitted by York City Council in table one where one can see that within the urban area within the O R R the travel to work by car is forty six point four percent , travel to work in the Greater York area at the moment is sixty seven point five percent , further than that I do believe it would be even greater . |
| 17 | This technique has been applied extensively by the present project to the problem of discriminating between different candidate words in a single sentential position ( rather than different senses of the same word ) . |
| 18 | The plant has been shut down by the government pending investigations . |
| 19 | But this good housekeeping has been swept aside by the latest wave of IRA terrorism aimed at commercial targets on the mainland , one of the repercussions of which has been that , from 1 January this year , landlords and/or tenants have been required to take out a separate insurance policy to cover their buildings against terrorist damage . |
| 20 | The position appears to be beyond question as a result of the decision of the House of Lords in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , and in cases covered by the UCTA 1977 , s9 makes clear that a clause may be judged reasonable , and enforceable , even though the contract has been terminated either by the breach , or by the innocent party in response to the breach . |
| 21 | Important Bird Areas in the United Kingdom has been compiled jointly by the RSPB , Scottish National Heritage , the Countryside Council for Wales , English Nature and the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee . |
| 22 | The development of psychiatric services in Scotland has been influenced greatly by the sites chosen for the Victorian asylums . |
| 23 | At the same time , Czechoslovakia has been hit hard by the Warsaw Pact arms reductions . |
| 24 | But not everything is rosy — 1991 saw a bruising strike at Peterborough , and Gilroy admits that the company has been hit hard by the economic downturn in almost every country in which it competes . |
| 25 | AROUND £58 million was wiped off the personal fortunes of Body Shop founders Anita and Gordon Roddick yesterday , when shares in the toiletries chain slumped £1.12 to £1.54 , following a shock warning from the company that it has been hit hard by the slump . |
| 26 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 27 | But sources have confirmed that this has been ruled out by the Treasury in the current round of public expenditure talks . |
| 28 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 29 | Lord 's silence over Lamb has been broken only by the swish , frantic swish of sweeping every inconvenient fact under the Long Room carpet , now piled so high that Chris Bonnington might not scale it ! |
| 30 | This has been refuted both by the success rate of absent healing and trials on non-suggestible organisms such as the sick cress seeds healed by Boltwood in recent experiments at London University . |