Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The man who discovered America has been commemorated by a new … and highly unusual rose . |
| 32 | So : your Uccello has been skewered by an assegai-wielding sociopath convinced that some noxious item of legislation will be reversed once he Goths a valuable masterpiece . |
| 33 | According to Computerwoche , the recent decision by supercomputer manufacturer , Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc to start using Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Modular Computer Systems Inc 's real-time operating system , Real-IX , has been followed by a similar move from Groupe Bull SA . |
| 34 | This is the analysis which was presented in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) and has been followed by an enormous number of works exploring the same field . |
| 35 | If a vehicle examiner who has been authorised by a chief constable examines the brakes his evidence will show a more detailed inspection and will probably name the ‘ part ’ concerned . |
| 36 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 37 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |
| 38 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 39 | Novato , California-based WordStar International Inc has been hit by an Australian court award against it ordering it to pay $3.2m to Perfect Information Pty Ltd as damages on its claim it was wrongfully terminated as one of WordStar 's Australian distributors ; WordStar will appeal the ruling , maintaining the plaintiff was never lawfully engaged as a distributor . |
| 40 | If they then go out and collect signatures no-one can say that the petition has been organized by a small group who have twisted arms in the street . |
| 41 | LAURENCE SMITH , the former London and Saracens centre , whose livelihood as a fireman has been affected by a serious leg injury sustained while playing rugby a year ago , has an international benefit match at Southgate on Monday afternoon . |
| 42 | In another field , that of child care law , the relationship between parents ' , children 's and state interests and rights has been affected by an increasing emphasis on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare . |
| 43 | Since 1968 the republic has been ruled by a Military Committee for National Liberation with an executive President ( currently Gen. Moussa Traoré ) who is head of state and head of government , as well as secretary-general of the sole legal political party , the Mali People 's Democratic Union ( Union démocratique du peuple malien — UDPM ) . |
| 44 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 45 | While refusing to name the firm interested in taking over Dangerfield — it will only say interest has been expressed by a British-based private company — the region hopes the sale will go ahead . |
| 46 | In Germany , the Social Democrats ' caution about reunification has been punished by an enthusiastic electorate . |
| 47 | Increasingly it has been challenged by a rival account which might be called a ‘ teleology of the oppressed ’ . |
| 48 | Chomsky 's claim that the young child is exposed to degenerate samples of language which distort the relationship between surface forms and meanings has been challenged by a considerable amount of recent research . |
| 49 | This has been exacerbated by a continuing tendency for clients to reduce the size of their marketing departments . |
| 50 | I am satisfied , and this has been confirmed by a recent independent review , that that support is effective in generating investment and jobs . |
| 51 | Their indirect effects can nonetheless be measured , and their existence has been confirmed by a small shift ( the ‘ Lamb shift ’ ) they produce in the spectrum of light from excited hydrogen atoms . |
| 52 | Student registrations on the course by mode show a small increase in both sandwich and part-time modes which , interestingly , has been matched by a corresponding decrease in such registrations elsewhere in the Polytechnic so that institutional figures are roughly stable over the period from 1982–87 . |
| 53 | For banks , the immediate effect is to reduce the size of their balance sheets : deposit liabilities have fallen and the fall has been matched by an equal reduction in their deposits at the Bank of England . |
| 54 | Every attempt by local government to evade central spending restrictions has been met by a new rule to make evasion more difficult . |
| 55 | The news that Hanson may be preparing to bid for ICI has been met by a united front on the ICI board . |
| 56 | How , she asks , can we account for evil in a world that has been created by a good God ? |
| 57 | Since then , the mill ( which is not open to the public ) has been visited by a large number of interested bodies , all of whom must have been greatly impressed with this tale of hard work , expense and perseverence . |
| 58 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
| 59 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 60 | If this royal retreat has been trampled by an enthusiastic tourist — which is increasingly the case — the insect is doomed . |