Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] by [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recall was aided by use of a pictorial daily health diary , on which mothers were taught to record that the child was healthy or to mark the occurrence of diarrhoea , cough , or any other illness . |
| 2 | It is possible to consider a situation where most franchises remain being run by groups of B R managers and a few franchises are run by private sector companies . |
| 3 | From the earliest times , electronic databases have been accessed by means of search and retrieval software . |
| 4 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 5 | Researchers , however , have been troubled by questions of sampling and by the extent to which the writers ' self-consciousness of their mission affects the data . |
| 6 | The early hill forts have been studied by waves of archaeologists almost as numerous as their early invaders . |
| 7 | These things have been achieved by teams of people from different departments working closely together day in , day our . |
| 8 | IN THE run-up to Denmark 's referendum on the Maastricht treaty on May 18th , enthusiasts for a united Europe have been paralysed by fear of offending Danish voters . |
| 9 | Encouraging results have been obtained by expression of the IL-2 gene in a mouse colonic cancer model and of the IL-4 gene in a mouse renal cancer model . |
| 10 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 11 | The factoring companies have been heartened by signs of increased demand in the first half of this year after a difficult 1991 . |
| 12 | For this reason , the Institute will restrict the examination to candidates who have been trained by holders of the Dip CITT. for a few years and then review the situation to see whether the professional structures have developed enough to sustain new entrants . |
| 13 | The mosaics of S. Sophia have been covered by layers of painted plaster over the centuries ; in most places it is two inches thick . |
| 14 | Seven of the courses validated have been developed by groups of centres acting as consortia . |
| 15 | Many claims have been made by observers of the desktop publishing market that PageMaker 3.0 was going to be Aldus 's answer to Ventura . |
| 16 | Attempts to improve the prospect of cure have been made by investigation of the advantages of adjuvant chemotherapy . |
| 17 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 18 | Relatively few of these governments have been formed following elections ; most have been created by means of negotiation between the main parties and personalities in order to establish the distribution of offices between parties . |
| 19 | Scientists have been increasingly professionalised within universities , research institutes and industrial enterprises , the magi have been replaced by managers of research . |
| 20 | The original Warwickshire lord and his huntsmen have been replaced by groups of young Sloanes who identify the sleeping Sly as ‘ probably working-class ’ and divert themselves by ‘ messing around with his mind a bit ’ . |
| 21 | It focuses on the extent to which areas of socially heterogeneous private renting have been replaced by areas of higher economic status owner occupation and lower status council renting and it examines the nature of processes involved . |
| 22 | Since the military coup in September 1991 , international efforts to support the struggle for human rights and democracy in Haiti have been hampered by lack of reliable information and well-balanced analysis . |
| 23 | Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds . |
| 24 | Similar expressions of disappointment and frustration have been uttered by leaders of the BDDA on numerous earlier and later occasions . |
| 25 | All through the centuries , theologians and biblical scholars have been plagued by problems of translation — or , to be more accurate , mistranslation . |
| 26 | Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector . |
| 27 | Now they have been washed by years of rain into earthy camouflage patterns . |
| 28 | So our gains in youth work have been marked by surges of confidence based on a developing analysis . |
| 29 | In seeking to explore the links between trade , slavery and industry , historians have been handicapped by lack of detailed evidence about the scale and pattern of Britain 's trade with Africa and the Americas and about those participating in such activity . |
| 30 | The Committee was explicit about what it considered these pressures to be , saying that they had ‘ encountered several cases in which young men have been induced by means of gifts or money or hospitality to indulge in homosexual behaviour with older men ’ . |