Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 2 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 3 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 4 | Thames Valley Police say they ca n't comment on the figures until they 've been discussed by the relevant committee next week . |
| 5 | At least that 's what we 've been told by the seat-cover suppliers , Courtaulds Textiles , which produces the terribly natty ‘ Renaissance ’ decor for Rover 's new Metro . |
| 6 | Suppressing the divine ire of the Northerner at Southern superciliousness , which would hardly serve his turn at this juncture , Greg said : ‘ The point is , I 've been commissioned by the local rag to write a pamphlet on Walter Machin and his World — ’ |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that he will not agree to binding minimum rates of income tax in Europe , which have been advocated by the Socialist Confederation in Europe and are supported by the Labour party in this country ? |
| 8 | Local authority leaders have been warned by the Scottish Secretary that the government is determined to keep public spending under control . |
| 9 | They have been cleared by the European Commission because they were transitional contracts . |
| 10 | Do you discuss how these ideas have been influenced by the mass media as well as by the fine arts ? |
| 11 | As the previous section indicated , most contemporary theories of stratification have been influenced by the pioneering work of Marx or Weber . |
| 12 | Other sectors such as construction and trading houses have had different spurs to go abroad , but they too have been influenced by the earlier investors . |
| 13 | Other contributors , like Alison Assiter , Joanna Hodge and Margaret Whitford , have been influenced by the non-analytic traditions of Continental Europe . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some of these groupings have been recognised by the Scottish Universities Council on Entrance . |
| 16 | We have been instructed by the Malawian authorities who are responsible for our fees and nobody else is . ’ |
| 17 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 18 | The Government 's problems have been compounded by the crazy suggestion of the Secretary of State for the Environment that the Ove Arup route via Stratford will act as a springboard for the creation of a new linear city from Stratford to Southend . |
| 19 | Record profits have been announced by the Oxfordshire-based brewery Morland . |
| 20 | The French nuclear programme as well as the other elements in the French energy system have been affected by the economic recession of the past four years and by the more recent fall in oil prices . |
| 21 | Some cathedrals now follow a lectionary which provides for shorter excerpts from the Psalter and have been affected by the liturgical changes of the recent past . |
| 22 | I am pleased to see the porpoise , because they too have been affected by the general shortage of food recently , and have not been easy to find in their usual haunts . |
| 23 | All have been affected by the Post-glacial rise of sea level , but in the second class this may have been accentuated or nullified by local land movements . |
| 24 | I do not deny that some very good results have been reached by the oral method , and especially so in cases of those children possessing the natural quickness of observation and retentiveness of memory which this method requires . |
| 25 | Their task will be to help otters and seals which have been contaminated by the seven mile long oil slick . |
| 26 | The original patterns have been reinforced by the subsequent arrival of relations and others from the same parts of the world , as well as by their high birth rate-the result of relatively high fertility and young average age . |
| 27 | Two further concerns have been generated by the massive growth in the number of private residential and nursing homes following changes in social security regulations in the past decade . |
| 28 | Such payments to a spouse will normally end if he or she remarries , but the original provisions in the 1938 Act excluding a child from further benefit on attaining the age of majority or on marriage have been repealed by the 1975 Act . |
| 29 | I have been tempted by the lonely hearts advertisements in selected journals . |
| 30 | DOUBTS about the unique computer package planned by the Central Electricity Generating Board to prevent an accident in the reactor of its PWR station have been voiced by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |