Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 2 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 3 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 4 | That has been spurred on by the successful growth of that sector in Britain . |
| 5 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 6 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 7 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 8 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 9 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 10 | The other point I would make is the further that the new settlement is from York itself , then the greater would be the dependency upon the motor car , this has been born out by the paper that has been submitted by York City Council in table one where one can see that within the urban area within the O R R the travel to work by car is forty six point four percent , travel to work in the Greater York area at the moment is sixty seven point five percent , further than that I do believe it would be even greater . |
| 11 | The plant has been shut down by the government pending investigations . |
| 12 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 13 | Their hosts today welcome back David Plews who has been ruled out by a hamstring injury sustained at Norton in the opening game of the season . |
| 14 | But sources have confirmed that this has been ruled out by the Treasury in the current round of public expenditure talks . |
| 15 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 16 | Erm I think before I start , it 's very very important , as has been pointed out by the previous two speakers , that we actually make a practical response to the closure of Hospital . |
| 17 | For the time being , the American peace plan has been killed off by the Labour Party 's failure to form a government . |
| 18 | This may sound utopian , but it has been borne out by the experience of existing telecottages . |
| 19 | The construction of an appropriate regulatory framework is extremely complex and this has been borne out by the US experience . |
| 20 | The firm 's stand has been borne out by the earnings figures published by Fortune : for the calendar year 1987 , Korn/Ferry 's recruiting fees reached $64.6m. worldwide , of which $45.2m. was generated in the USA . |
| 21 | We always knew there were many first-class journalists in the region and this has been borne out by the contributions . ’ |
| 22 | The ban has been pushed through by the Labour group which regained control of the county council in May . |
| 23 | A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector . |
| 24 | A request from Shetland farmers to ban all imports of dairy cattle to save their stocks from BSE infection has been turned down by the Shetland Island Council . |
| 25 | A major mining project has been turned down by the Australian Labour government in favour of preserving species unique to the area and defending the land rights of Aborigines . |
| 26 | Neither party is likely to want to wait until the matter has been decided on by a court . |
| 27 | The narrator , returning to the box shortly afterwards , finds that the signalman has been run over by a train . |
| 28 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 29 | Perhaps the company has been taken over by a larger group which is not interested in building it tip . |
| 30 | Has been taken over by a stagecoach . |