Example sentences of "have been [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Many a teenage dream has been threatened by the appearance of an untimely spot , and , somewhat unjustly , the adolescent agonies of excess oiliness and blemishes can often plague sufferers well into their early twenties .
32 Once a solicitor has been instructed by the applicant , it is evident from the files examined that the Commissioner keeps a close eye on the case , and is kept informed of all progress and developments by way of regular reports from the solicitor .
33 In addition , the proliferation of networks has been assisted by the arrival of effective PC networking standards a couple of years ago .
34 In the past , the study of onomatopoeia , and of imitative effects generally , has been vitiated by a tendency to assume that there is a direct evocative connection between a particular sound and a particular reference , say between an /s/ sound and the sighing of the wind or ( here ) the hiss of a steam-engine .
35 Much of this debate has been vitiated by the assumption that if unemployment is causally related to crime , this must be an invariable law : true at all times and places .
36 The scanning device has been developed by a company in Upton Bishop in Herefordshire .
37 Fuel bond AN ADDITIVE that bonds diesel fuel and water to create a solution that burns cleanly without loss of power has been developed by a team led by Prof David Thorley of City University .
38 Such underdrawing has now provided a significantly more accurate way of dating the famous palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and El Castillo , Spain , and Niaux in the French Pyrenees has been developed by a team of French and Spanish scientists .
39 This area has been developed by the Development Corporation with facilities such as a 9 hole pitch and putt course , a trim course , a BMX track , a skateboard park , a bowling club and other recreational facilities .
40 Such a standard they claim , has been developed by the Text Encoding Initiative ( TEI ) which has provided guidelines and extensive documentation for the use of the markup language known as SGML in the creation of machine-readable text ( Burnard 1993 ) .
41 Another form of attractive homework involving children and their parents has been developed by the IMPACT ( Inventing Maths for Parents Children and Teachers ) Project reported by Ruth Merttens and Jeff Vass in Sharing Maths Cultures .
42 The system has been developed by the bank and Ernst and Young 's management consultants with the CBI .
43 The ‘ advanced ’ shamrock has been developed by the professor of horticulture at University College , Dublin , Joe Morgan .
44 It has long been recognised that the human factor is just as significant an influence on rates of erosion as physical features , as has been highlighted by a study of potential versus actual erosion in Zimbabwe by Whitlow ( 1988 ) .
45 The sleaze factor has been highlighted by the revelation that large chunks of the Brinks-Mat bullion robbery money were laundered via Switzerland into luxury flats on the Isle of Dogs .
46 The manager 's hand has been strengthened by the return of striker Steve McManaman , who has recovered from a back injury , and Dane Torben Piechnik , who was on World Cup duty in midweek .
47 Gateshead 's team has been strengthened by the inclusion of former Olympic Games 1500 metres runner Ray Smedley and the return from holiday in Canada of Miles .
48 WOOD GROUP Fire Protection 's position within the power generation industry has been strengthened by the award of two maintenance contracts .
49 The case for Taylor to vacate his position has been strengthened by the pain here in Spain of a shabby England performance after the torment and failure in the European championship finals .
50 Internal security has been strengthened by the use of MUFTI ( Minimum Use of Force Tactical Intervention Squad ) and the increased training of prison officers in riot control .
51 For Bradford 's visit , Leeds — whose squad has been strengthened by the arrival from Barrow of the Australian forward Cavill Heugh — have dropped the Great Britain prop Lee Crooks .
52 The Surrey town — with a population of around 124,000 — has been ravaged by the recession .
53 The Borough has been penalised by the Government for overspending and now faces charge capping .
54 The answer , according to Mr Michael Reich of the Harvard School of Public Health , is that the industry has been nurtured by an arm of the Japanese government that had no interest in exporting , making it a victim of government intervention .
55 And to a large extent the subsequent history of theology has been determined by the struggle to find the balance between them and to chart a course which will take proper cognisance both of the demands of the inner human self and of the need to hear and recognise the voice that speaks to us from beyond ourselves .
56 Put in terms of basic psychoanalytic theory , one might say that in the modern Western individual the order of stages of psycho-sexual development has been determined by the id .
57 We have , as a nation , lost all sense of proportion during the past 13 years , as government policy has been determined by the worship of a single economic icon : the conquest of what the Daily Telegraph , in a telling editorial comment , described as ‘ the one absolute evil ’ — inflation .
58 But if a receiver has been appointed by the court , the court 's leave must be obtained , for it is then in possession through its officers .
59 Paul Hutchins Tennis and Leisure , the company formed four years ago by the former British National Team Manager and Davis Cup captain , has been appointed by the LTA to run the already popular National Club League , which begins later this year .
60 Former US Wightman and Federation Cup player Sharon Walsh has been appointed by the LTA as the new Rover National training Coach .
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