Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The section has been amended recently by new section 62A , which , by virtue of secondary legislation , makes clear that s.62 is intended , inter alia , to cover insider dealing . |
| 2 | British infancy research has a well-established National , European and International reputation , and this has been built up by many eminent researchers working separately at their different institutions . |
| 3 | Some he may be hearing in future include : Thy food is such as has been breathed on by infected lungs , ( Pericles ) — useful for insulting prison cooks . |
| 4 | The existence of powerless groups has been highlighted even by those who extol the virtues of the Japanese commitment to consensus . |
| 5 | Today 's new generation of black directors has been spurred on by two particular success stories . |
| 6 | The reserve has been extended eastwards by 55,000 hectares to the River Usumancinta on the Guatemalan border . |
| 7 | As a result , output has been revised upwards by 0.2 per cent in the first two quarters and 0.3 per cent in the third , and the trend throughout 1992 now looks even flatter than before . |
| 8 | This young lady has been assaulted sexually by that beastly little man . ’ |
| 9 | Many victims are also having to come to terms with the trauma while looking after children and the elderly in overcrowded refugee camps.Whether rape has been singled out by military commanders as a weapon of war remains open to question , but victims ' testimony suggests the abuse is part of a wider pattern of warfare and ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ . |
| 10 | Support for Indian influence has been given also by certain Aboriginal elders and initiates with whom I have conversed , and my explorations in India into serpent worship have strongly indicated that the concept of the Rainbow Serpent could be a direct transposition from Indian serpent lore . |
| 11 | The letter from earlier in the year to the Chief Executive of the Council has been followed up by this department investigating its own use of peat — which is fairly limited . |
| 12 | At least as much interest has been stirred up by another special ability of the acoustic microscope ; to see beneath the surface , look into things , whether or not they are transparent to light and other forms of radiation . |
| 13 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 14 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 15 | The ghost of Mr Cubbage walks the coaches of many trains searching for his beloved Coleen ; he has been seen often by many people in the district , he also walks the railway tracks near the spot on which he was killed , a sobbing , totally heartbroken figure . |
| 16 | The excavation — directed by Peter Stead of Exeter Museum — has been funded jointly by English Heritage and South West Water to the tune of £250,000 . |
| 17 | However , having read the notes accompanying the application form , it seemed that the work we wish to carry out does not require the formal Consent , since the work falls under Section ( a ) of Class III of the exceptions listed in paragraph 2 , ie. works of repair or maintainance not involving a material alteration to a monument , and this opinion has been confirmed verbally by British Waterways themselves . |
| 18 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 19 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 20 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 21 | I think that Englishness , for all that we pull it to bits , had a certain important moral structure , which has been eaten away by unchecked competition , an underground civil war breaking our roots . |
| 22 | The validity of this approach has been borne out by other studies combining immunocytochemistry with DNA sequencing that have found accumulation of protein to be invariably associated with the presence of a mutant p53 allele . |
| 23 | Using the tip of your index finger , spread the bead of silicone which has been pushed out by adjoining panels into a rounded seal ( see diagram six ) around the base and up the vertical joints . |
| 24 | AN application for outline permission to erect a detached house at 90 London Road , Holybourne has been turned down by local planners . |
| 25 | This technique has been discovered independently by two different groups of birds — the weaverbirds of Africa which are closely related to the European sparrow , and the icterids of the Americas which include such birds as the caciques and the oropendolas . |
| 26 | Designed for smaller and medium-sized businesses and even for business units of multinational corporations as a corporate planning checklist , the system has been tested successfully by many companies , as well as computer specialists . |
| 27 | The application of these ideas to established urban areas has been obstructed both by public expenditure restrictions and by community opposition to new road construction . |
| 28 | The testing boom has been resisted vigorously by civil liberties groups and trade unions , who view this aspect of the ‘ war on drugs ’ as a frontal assault on a worker 's dignity and entitlement to due process . |
| 29 | After last year 's success he has appeared on TV and radio all over the world and has been signed up by three advertising agencies . |
| 30 | With luck , an ensuing argument will highlight how the situation has been read differently by each partner and result in the couple being more married than before , feeling more together in themselves and with each other . |