Example sentences of "[coord] have been [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | investment ) , tourism and weaving underpin the fragile economy which is or has been augmented by local centres of enterprise such as the oil platform fabrication yard at Arnish near Stornoway ( now closed ) , the rocket-range support base at Ballavanich , the military developments at Stornoway airfield and scattered small scale initiatives such as fish processing and , notably , salmon farming in sheltered bays and sea lochs . |
| 2 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 3 | Rather he had discovered , or had been forced by historical development , to discover the limitations of his anti-royalism . |
| 4 | Suitable for all solid fuels and gas , it meets BS 715 and has been certified by British Gas |
| 5 | The design of this study is now well known and has been analysed by other workers . |
| 6 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |
| 7 | ‘ This force has always existed within Nature and has been worshipped by human beings in various forms for aeons . |
| 8 | While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) . |
| 9 | It has passed its steam test and has been checked by British Rail engineers for quality . |
| 10 | There is some suspicion that the wheel , as with some other mills , may have originally been an external one and has been enclosed by subsequent extensions . |
| 11 | Murty , the Assistant Government Agent at Matara , wrote in his annual report for 1902 that ‘ it is true that cattle stealing can be and has been suppressed by drastic measures , such as wholesale convictions , involving both innocent and guilty , and by the application of the lash , but I can not conscientiously recommend this procedure . ’ |
| 12 | He 's won several awards for his radio work and has been praised by top journalists for documentaries he 's come up with for Radio One . |
| 13 | Yet this form of schooling has never really succeeded in England and has been surrounded by hostile controversy and apathy . |
| 14 | A two hour dialysis time does not achieve equilibrium values of the eicosanoid measured but reflects epithelial values and has been used by other authors . |
| 15 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |
| 16 | He had hitherto resisted the pressure for his resignation , and had been supported by Prime Minister Felipe González Marquez , a close friend and political ally since the 1960s . |
| 17 | When the history of the church was being researched a footnote in an 18th century volume identified a drawing of some stained-glass panels which had long since fallen into disrepair and had been replaced by plain lights . |
| 18 | Croll managed the day to day administration of the office until he retired in 1881 by which time he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and had been honoured by learned bodies at home and abroad . |
| 19 | However , Sheriff Colin Higgins said that the wound was razor-sharp , and had been described by medical witnesses as a clean surgical cut which left the victim 's face wide open . |
| 20 | I have finished my letter and sit staring down through the orchard thinking about those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces . |
| 21 | On the way back to my office through the gallery I see that the art deco figures have disappeared and have been replaced by enormous canvases of contemporary art . |
| 22 | All the hotels in this brochure have been selected for their good value and have been inspected by senior executives of Enterprise Holidays . |
| 23 | Numbers of undergraduates and research students have increased substantially in the last 20 years and have been matched by recent extensive building additions to the School . |
| 24 | The anomalies revealed here are the direct result of ageist assumptions , which were built into the social security system at the outset and have been reinforced by successive governments . |
| 25 | All these movements have had before them as a model the existing nation states , and have been influenced by nationalist ideas already formulated and widely disseminated . |
| 26 | Koriyama Museum 's collection will also include Japanese artists who have studied art in England and have been influenced by British art as well as local artists ' work . |
| 27 | Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students . |
| 28 | His previous books have become classics and have been read by countless thousands . |
| 29 | The Eurasian steppes had its own bison , the wisent , which was almost extinct in the early decades of this century but has been rescued by captive breeding , and the small saiga antelope , with its peculiar dust-trap of a nose , in shape like an elephant seal 's . |
| 30 | All three are inherent components of the natural earth surface processes that occur in arid and semi-arid regions but have been exacerbated by human activity . |