Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] by [art] " in BNC.

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1 French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling .
2 Thus we look , in turn , at how particular examples of political dissent , urban riots , strike violence , football hooliganism and the conflict in Northern Ireland have been represented by the media .
3 Despite all their meticulous pre-tour preparation , England have been routed by a wicked combination of untimely injuries and sickness plus the loss of two vital tosses .
4 For the shoot , Colin , C and Jhelisa have been joined by the rest of the touring band , keyboard player Robert Graham and drummer Gavin Knight .
5 Bradford have been ordered by the Rugby League to get their outstanding third round tie against Widnes played by a week today at the latest .
6 CUMBERNAULD have been banned by the Scottish Rugby Union from playing until next season after a match against Earlston earlier this month was abandoned by the referee , writes George Barton .
7 CUMBERNAULD have been banned by the Scottish Rugby Union from playing until next season after a match against Earlston earlier this month was abandoned by the referee .
8 In the west of Scotland , CCG have been selected by the CPC Social Club in Paisley , not only for a bar and food service with entertainment for 420 members , but also for ground maintenance including their bowling greens and tennis courts .
9 But such matters are relative : the major currencies outside the EMS have been characterized by a high degree of exchange rate volatility , and the proper comparison is to consider the effect on intra-community exchange rates without the operation of the EMS .
10 In Colombia hundreds of teachers like Sister Teresa have been murdered by the death squads and thousands have received death threats ( often in the form of sufragios — invitations to their own funeral ) .
11 GRANTS totalling more than £37,000 for a host of projects being run by organisations in Cleveland have been agreed by the county council .
12 Militant Tendency in Liverpool and elsewhere , Mr Scargill of the NUM and Tony Benn have been lashed by the leadership as the unacceptable face of Labour and all have been marginalized in the party .
13 It is probable that some islands around Britain have been formed by the oscillatory nature of Pleistocene sea level ( Fig. 9.3 ) .
14 The arguments for disabled employment rights in Britain have been fuelled by a number of factors .
15 Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit .
16 Many of the developments in taxonomy in the recent past have involved the use of computers , but staff in RBG have been limited by the inadequate facilities previously available , which have made it extremely difficult for them to become involved in work in this field .
17 In the theory of infinite groups various conjectures of Burnside have been established by the Russian mathematicians Golod , Kostrikhin , Novikov and Adjan .
18 Plans to send a fact finding mission to Birmingham have been criticised by a Liberal Democrat on Sedgefield District Council .
19 Ten women patients and a nurse in the geriatric ward of the Royal Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester have been infected by the disease since the first case was diagnosed last Thursday .
20 In recent decades communities in the United States and Europe have been confronted by the realisation that lead can severely retard the mental development of their children .
21 A team of Greenpeace activists protesting against French nuclear testing in the Pacific have been arrested by the French navy after entering the 12-mile exclusion zone around the Pacific atoll of Mururoa , where the tests take place .
22 As you heard on the news , we at ZeeBeeCee have been saddened by the tragic passing of Wally the Whale .
23 Meanwhile , the poor actors who are facing long stints on the Costa Eldorado have been told by the BBC that if they want to come home on breaks or holidays , they will have to pay their own fare .
24 IRELAND 'S chances of success in this weekend 's Home International series in Glasgow have been hampered by the re-emergence of England on the scene .
25 Plans for a private hospital for Darlington have been scuppered by the environment secretary following a planning inquiry earlier this year .
26 Study of the actions of PYY and NPY have been helped by the recent description of synthetic decapeptide amide antagonists , PYX 1 and PYX 2 .
27 ROBERT NORSTER , the Welsh team manager , and national coach Alan Davies have been invited by the Welsh Rugby Union to continue in their roles through the next three Five Nations campaigns and up to and including the 1995 World Cup .
28 Generally less well-educated than other ethnic groups , and more likely to lack jobs and live in grim houses , Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have been hit by the closure of run-down Bradford mills and ancient Birmingham factories .
29 Auditors Price Waterhouse have been revealed by the long-awaited Bingham report as concerned accountants , who tried desperately to keep BCCI afloat .
30 Both the Methodist and Church of England schools in Cotherstone have been replaced by a state school ( the Methodists hung on until 1960 ) .
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