Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously . |
| 2 | NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 . |
| 3 | One corporate-centred bargaining strategy in the form of ‘ coalition ’ bargaining has been adopted by a number of US unions since the 1960s . |
| 4 | The first claim insists that once a crisp decision has been made by a body sanctioned by convention , and the content of that decision is fixed by conventions about how such decisions should be understood , judges must respect that decision , even if they think a different one would have been fairer or wiser . |
| 5 | The district council decision has been welcomed by a Conservative councillor , Alan Trotter , who has been campaigning for action , with regional Councillor Fred Ratky . |
| 6 | This dramatic reduction has been accompanied by a major change in course provision ; during recent years , the three-year Certificate of Education course , followed for a minority of students by a fourth year leading to a Bachelor of Education degree , has been completely replaced by integrated three- and four-year courses leading to ordinary and honours BEd degrees respectively . |
| 7 | However , as with education , the impact of change has been limited by a lack of a corresponding expansion of the job market . |
| 8 | Her closer engagement with concrete social change has been accompanied by a rapprochement with the conventions of science fiction . |
| 9 | The wider field of responsibility has been rewarded by a variety of means . |
| 10 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 11 | This tactical defence has been weakened by a ruling made recently in another case , where the Guggenheim Museum was seeking the return of a stolen Chagall painting from a private collector . |
| 12 | ‘ Seed ’ sponsored ( a subset of the champion stage ) designates that funding has been provided by a department as a clear budgeted line-item . |
| 13 | Braverman 's radical analysis of work organisation at the operational level has been extended by a number of writers concerned to explore its implications for these wider organisational issues . |
| 14 | A BNFL sponsored conservation award has been won by a company which used extensive landscaping and environmental work in developing a former RAF site . |
| 15 | Dury 's reputation as something of a hellraiser has been sustained by a couple of recent incidents : what he describes as his ‘ bit of bother at the opera ’ ( a minor fracas enthusiastically reported by the tabloid newspapers ) and an appearance on Nicky Campbell 's Radio 1 show , when Dury , who had dined well before going on air , spoke with unusual frankness on a number of subjects . |
| 16 | We are to leave immediately — the base has been penetrated by a force of United States Marines . ’ |
| 17 | For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against . |
| 18 | Here its hegemony has been challenged by a third cultural and political thrust . |
| 19 | Their indirect effects can nonetheless be measured , and their existence has been confirmed by a small shift ( the ‘ Lamb shift ’ ) they produce in the spectrum of light from excited hydrogen atoms . |
| 20 | A general information processing approach which appears to account both for the effects of arousal on task performance and the interaction between arousal and retention interval in the memory literature has been proposed by a number of researchers ( e.g. Broadbent , 1971 ; Hockey , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Moreover , this strategy of revolutionary elitism has been accompanied by a reversal of the tactic of campaigning on the basis of crude , ethnocentric prejudices . |
| 22 | Much of the writing o science and religion has been structured by a preoccupation either with conflict or with harmony . |
| 23 | ( Moss 1989a ) A view of all-powerful texts exerting ideological effects on a vulnerable readership has been replaced by a more complex understanding of the relationship between text and reader in which texts appear more contradictory and readers able to answer back . |
| 24 | Although their relationship remains poorly understood , one of cause and effect has been suggested by a number of authors . |
| 25 | The Scottish Television script has been written by a former Daily Mirror editor , Mike Molloy , and a former People managing editor , Revel Barker . |
| 26 | The complex has been restored by a voluntary trust , and comprises two grinding mills with a wharf and crane on the Caldon Canal ; flint was delivered to the works by barge on the canal after coming all the way from south-east England where it mostly occurs . |
| 27 | Class consciousness means that false class consciousness has been replaced by a full awareness of the true situation , by a realization of the nature of exploitation . |
| 28 | Once a positive vote has been recorded by a designated estate , the Secretary of State appoints a board of between seven and thirteen members to manage its affairs . |
| 29 | One of the most unambiguous demonstrations of this comes from New Guinea where the virtual abolition of tribal warfare achieved by relatively recent European rule has been accompanied by a marked increase in the incidence of sorcery accusations . |
| 30 | The seat has been replaced by a stronger version . |