Example sentences of "[vb base] been [vb pp] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 2 | Now we 've been approached by Irish Railway with regard , they 've got something like thirty million pounds from the to upgrade line from Dublin to Belfast . |
| 3 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 6 | Thus responsibility for the discharged patient often ends up with the GP , whether this outcome is planned or not , and few GPs have been prepared by vocational training for a more involved role in community care services . |
| 7 | All the plans have been prepared by top garden designers at Individual Gardens Ltd , whose managing director David Stevens designed the award winning B and Q garden at this years Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 8 | Many ‘ designer ’ potatoes , elegant , expensive and almost extinct , have been reprieved by public interest and a certain novelty value . |
| 9 | Grants to help offset the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by volunteers in geological conservation work have been announced by English Nature — the English branch of the now disbanded Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 10 | Safety officials at the Harwell laboratory near Didcot are denying staff have been affected by radio-active contamination following a recent accident . |
| 11 | Thus the perceptions of older people themselves concerning old age , as well as the rest of society , have been affected by age-based retirement and pension policies . |
| 12 | Field and moorland alike have been affected by deliberate management . |
| 13 | A later related study will deal with the more specialised question of how involvement in unionism may be changing in sunrise firms , and how employee relations have been affected by different management strategies . |
| 14 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
| 15 | Sales of luggage and leather goods have been affected by difficult market conditions , notably in Japan , but their overall profitability has been maintained . |
| 16 | The concern of Marland ( 1986 ) and Tickle ( 1987 ) about the lack of research quoted earlier is one of the signs of how the arts are being starved of funds whilst other curriculum areas , most notably the development of the ‘ balanced science ’ curriculum programme through the Secondary Science Review ( Association for Science Education , 1987 ) , have been aided by ethnographic research supported by the DES . |
| 17 | A total of nine elements were seen in the slab and its counterpart and some more have been exposed by careful excavation . |
| 18 | The problem of the evolution of recombination , and to a great extent of sex itself , is to explain why genes such as R have been favoured by natural selection . |
| 19 | Where the mucous has become distasteful , the animals bearing it have prospered , and in this way increasingly distasteful and eventually highly poisonous secretions have been favoured by natural selection . |
| 20 | Wirral Tory claims that the situation is a result of Labour councillors backing a ‘ ca n't pay , wont pay ’ campaign have been dismissed by Labour leader Coun Dave Jackson . |
| 21 | The campaign aims to rehabilitate the river 's floodplains , which have been damaged by intensive agriculture and the planting of foreign tree species . |
| 22 | If successful , the initial £13.3 million plan will be expanded throughout Britain to recover areas that have been damaged by intensive farming . |
| 23 | According to preliminary estimates , twelve of the southern countries have been damaged by severe erosion to the extent of about 70 million acres out of some 140 million acres of land now in crops . |
| 24 | During the last four decades , the natural habitats of Britain 's wildlife have been ravaged by modern farming methods , urban sprawl and pollution . |
| 25 | During the last four decades , the natural habitats of Britain 's wildlife have been ravaged by modern farming methods , urban sprawl and pollution . |
| 26 | Our brains have been built by natural selection to assess probability and risk , just as our eyes have been built to assess electromagnetic wavelength . |
| 27 | Brian , you have been troubled by bad health . |
| 28 | The fragmented appearance of their work , especially its Lettrist phase , their repudiation of conventional skills and scholarly manners ( evidenced in their use of personal insults ) have been absorbed by subcultural milieux and in due course adapted by the culture industries . |
| 29 | The first two years of operation have been characterised by heavy marketing and promotion both locally and nationally in order to establish the concept with industry and education . |
| 30 | Historically , increases in yield or improvements in specific traits have been achieved by classical breeding techniques involving crossing , back-crossing and selection . |