Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point . |
| 2 | In recent years , moreover , a growing proportion of total grant has been contributed by specific grants ( 17.6 per cent in England , 1981 /2 ; 25.6 per cent in 1987/8 ) , which — being tied , unlike block grant , to specific services — leave authorities with less discretion to determine spending priorities . |
| 3 | Chief executive , Bryan Sanderson , said that the ‘ necessity for cost reduction has been accelerated by deteriorating petrochemicals environment ’ . |
| 4 | Thus research into colonic motor function remains a challenging and potentially rewarding area where progress has been facilitated by recent technological advances . |
| 5 | A Sunday shopping offensive has been launched by major stores across the region . |
| 6 | This finding has been supported by various other firms and factories . |
| 7 | Since then , while the shares have had a spectacular progress from 707p to a high of over £16 earlier this year , the resort has been burdened by heavy start-up costs , high French interest rates and recession in Europe . |
| 8 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes ' polar trek has been delayed by bad weather . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , analysis based upon a given concept of ideology has been complemented by other projects , some of which also analyse buildings as repressive mechanisms or authoritarian representations ( e.g. Foucault 1977b ) , but whose overarching concepts such as ‘ power ’ or ‘ discourse ’ imply a still greater distance between interests and representations , and thereby a greater commitment to objectivism . |
| 10 | According to information obtained by Survival International — and recorded on a BBC TV film by journalist George Monbiot — more than 10,000 hectares of the Arara Indian reserve has been destroyed by illegal logging and the activity of settlers , who are following newly-cut logging roads into the forest . |
| 11 | Like all Chinese bikes , it is an all-purpose workhorse : so strong it will probably go on and on , until like most other bikes on the road its seat leather is worn right through and every part has been patched by street-corner bike repairers . |
| 12 | Over the sub-basin large thicknesses of Carboniferous sediments can be identified from the seismic data and their presence has been confirmed by well control . |
| 13 | Pinpoint monitoring has been provided by British Coal 's Coal Research Establishment at Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire |
| 14 | Pinpoint monitoring has been provided by British Coal 's Coal Research Establishment at Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire |
| 15 | The drug has been developed By British Biotechnology in Oxford and is undergoing tests on Breast cancer patients in Manchester . |
| 16 | However , what began as an eccentric country pastime has been transformed by trained winemakers like Stephen Skelton in Tenterden , Karl-Heinz Jobner , formerly at Lamberhurst but now based in Germany , Hans Schalfer at Denbies and John Worontschak at Thames Valley . |
| 17 | For instance , Townsend writes that : ‘ the concepts of retirement [ and ] pensionable status … have been developed in both capitalist and state socialist countries in ways which have created and reinforced the social dependency of the elderly ’ ; and Walker believes that : ‘ dependency at both ends of the age spectrum has been enlarged by social and economic developments over the course of this century ’ . |
| 18 | A similar result has been obtained by other workers who grafted the polarizing region from an aborted human embryo into the chick . |
| 19 | This exciting and varied steam programme has been organised by Regional Railways , Flying Scotsman Services and The Steam Locomotives Operators ' Association , with sponsorship from local district councils . |
| 20 | A national lowland heath programme has been launched by English Nature to arrest the spread of trees on to what was once open heath . |
| 21 | Betjeman 's poem ‘ Original Sin on me Sussex Coast ’ makes a point unwillingly learnt from his old tutor when it depicts the sheer wickedness of children bullying one another , unseen by the sentimental eyes of the mother whose mind has been washed by modern advertising techniques and the vacuous optimism of the age : |
| 22 | An elaborate fraud has been uncovered by sharp-eyed staff sifting through student paperwork . |
| 23 | Instead the Japanese drug industry has been shaped by national health policy , whose primary goal was to create a stable supply of up-to-date drugs . |
| 24 | The once-thriving motor industry has been hit by steady recession . |
| 25 | The usefulness has been removed by modern cases , which have held that partial abuse of an authority does not render everything done under it unlawful ( Elias v Pasmore [ 1934 ] 2 KB 164 ) . |
| 26 | Published work on screening for osteoporosis is based largely on experience in the United States , where widespread growth of screening has been driven by commercial factors and not by public health policy . |
| 27 | The validity of the crystal structure as a model for the repression complex has been tested by site-directed mutagenesis of both repressor and operator . |
| 28 | The boom has been fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products with even small grocery stores receiving up to 12 deliveries every day . |
| 29 | Poidevin has been signed by new Australian rugby broadcaster , Channel Ten , as an expert commentator . |
| 30 | The claim is sometimes made that the capacity of British industry to achieve higher absolute levels of investment has been weakened by declining rates of profit [ Flemming et al. , 1976 ] . |