Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the community charge , the funding for local authorities has been increased by 6.1 per cent . |
| 2 | The measures , including the abolition of petroleum revenue tax , on new oil and gas projects has been welcomed by British Petroleum which said that the changes should encourage investment in large fields , such as its recent find west of Shetland . |
| 3 | Whether light as well as heat is generated in these reactions has been questioned by some critics . |
| 4 | That oldest of disciplines has been neglected by 20th-century educationalists . |
| 5 | The need to be extra vigilant at all times has been stressed by terminal operations manager Roy Beardall following a security alert at Sullom Voe in August . |
| 6 | This intake of children from ethnic minority groups has been associated by some with difficulties within the school , such as ‘ declining standards ’ and ‘ discipline problems ’ . |
| 7 | Labour claims that central government capital spending on schools has been cut by 29 per cent in real terms since 1979 , while LEA spending has been squeezed mercilessly . |
| 8 | In the 1980s the United Kingdom New Issue market in equities has been affected by two major developments . |
| 9 | The number of doctors and dentists has been increased by 17,000 , and the real resources committed to GP services have doubled since 1979 . |
| 10 | The idea of maximizing the product of individual utilities has been employed by Fair ( 1971 ) and has been criticized by Ng ( 1979 ) . |
| 11 | A further point in relation to the accusation of the ethnocentricity of Freud 's assumptions about gender roles has been made by some people in the Women 's Movement , such as Kate Millet and Ann Oakley . |
| 12 | In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent . |
| 13 | In Kingston , for example , the list of those waiting more than 12 months has been reduced by 77 per cent . |
| 14 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 15 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 16 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave told an NHS managers ' conference in London that in January long term waiting lists had been cut by thirty percent . |
| 17 | But Mr Foster said yesterday he knew of situations in other parts of the country where waiting lists had been reduced by unacceptable tactics . |
| 18 | She found that muddy brown eyes had been replaced by alert blue ones . |
| 19 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 20 | However , after doubts had been expressed by certain of Nissan 's executives , this proposal was drastically scaled-down . |
| 21 | 15,000 homes had been built by 1988 , with a projection of 30,000 by 1995 ’ ( Source : LDDC estimates ) |
| 22 | Light-scattering measurements showed that the concentration of the micelles had been increased by 60 per cent . |
| 23 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 24 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 25 | Diverse cultures , religions and races have often found common ground and contact in rugby and lasting bridges between nations or peoples have been supported by sporting encounters at all levels . |
| 26 | Older fans have been irked by this change of direction . |
| 27 | Where combined schools exist , usually in areas where primary and secondary schools have been replaced by first , middle and high schools and whole first and middle schools are occasionally run into a single ( combined school ) organization , there is some continuity of teacher programming from the age of 5 through to 12 years . |
| 28 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 29 | Cash reserves have been savaged by massive rises in social security benefits because of ever-growing dole queues and interest repayments on debt . |
| 30 | According to the Link 's busy manager Ken Lee , the Woodland Road offices have been contacted by several other business ventures around the which are interested in emulating Darlington 's success . |