Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 2 | this decision has now been confirmed by the court of appeal . |
| 3 | Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law . |
| 4 | Although some progress has since been made by the meticulous work of the late Sir Ian Richmond and Roger Goodburn , it has been on too small a scale to support any attempt at a chronology of the history of the site . |
| 5 | In an effort to raise $40m , a bill to issue a commemorative coin has already been passed by the House of Representatives and will now be heard by the US Senate . |
| 6 | A political storm has also been sparked by the closure , with the threat of legal action between the council 's Recreation Department and Environmental Services . |
| 7 | The national change has also been marked by a shift in the geography of manufacturing employment . |
| 8 | Work of a manipulative kind has also been done by using classes of learners as subject , but it is not the teacher , in her normal teaching role , who conducts the enquiry in these cases . |
| 9 | No case of this kind has ever been considered by the courts before , and I do not think the dicta in the previous cases should be read as excluding a case of this kind where a landlord seeks , by a course of intimidation , to " annul his own deed " , to contradict his own demise , by ousting the tenant from possession which the landlord has conferred upon her . |
| 10 | Our finding concerning dependency of staining intensity on duration of fixation has also been made by Battersby et al . |
| 11 | Your employer must give you a written statement when making a redundancy payment , showing how the amount is calculated , unless the amount of payment has already been fixed by the decision of an industrial tribunal . |
| 12 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |
| 13 | The Yes camp has also been helped by the collapse of the ten-year-old centre-right coalition in January . |
| 14 | This award has also been won by the Fandangos Kennel and Bergsgardens Kennel . |
| 15 | I believe the Gold Award has never been won by the same publication two years running , so after our success last year I thought BNFL news would be out of the frame . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The need for formal assessment has already been conceded by teachers . |
| 18 | The union ban has already been criticised by the United Nations as an infringement of human rights . |
| 19 | The union ban has already been criticised by the United Nations as an infringement of human rights . |
| 20 | Moreover , while the new narrative has undoubtedly been influenced by European and North-American fiction , and by Joyce , Faulkner and the nouveau roman in particular , the new novelists have had the maturity and self-confidence to assimilate influences and to develop their own distinctive literary voice , and thus to make their own original contribution to world literature . |
| 21 | He has first of all a touching proclivity to awe-struck admiration of whatever is presented to him as noble by a constituted authority ; and , secondly , a complete absence of any immediate reaction to a work of art until his judgement has thus been hypnotized by the voice of authority … |
| 22 | A titled but non-executive chairman has always been seen by some as a desirable ornament on the company 's board , and even more so on its stationery . |
| 23 | The decline of the Anglican Church as a purveyor of religion has often been seen by historians as related to the rise of Methodism , while positive aspects have hardly been noted . |
| 24 | But the metaphor of a ‘ war ’ between Victorian science and religion has now been rejected by most historians . |
| 25 | A petition denying bad behaviour on the union side has even been signed by one of the managers . |
| 26 | It seems to me that , to the extent I have mentioned , that result has now been achieved by the decisions of the courts . |
| 27 | The degree of portasystemic shunting in cirrhosis has also been examined by scintigraphy , however per rectal administration of the radionuclide is required . |
| 28 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 29 | This department has now been superseded by the National Audit Office and the new staff are not civil servants . |
| 30 | The industry has long been characterised by mergers between brewers , closures of breweries and sales of public houses . |