Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the positioning of players seems wrong and choice of instruments has presumably been dictated by the need for variety in a tiny space ( the original is quite small ) much remains plausible . |
| 2 | This experimental solution has since been confirmed by a purely mathematical analysis carried out by H. L. Cox . |
| 3 | The point has since been confirmed by the House of Lords . |
| 4 | A President and a Council of Ministers were installed , but effective political power has since been exercised by the leadership of the sole legal political organization , the Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) . |
| 5 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 6 | Although some progress has since been made by the meticulous work of the late Sir Ian Richmond and Roger Goodburn , it has been on too small a scale to support any attempt at a chronology of the history of the site . |
| 7 | After his death in March 1984 , the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery under the leadership of Brig. -Gen. ( now Maj.-Gen. ) |
| 8 | After his death in March 1984 the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery ( CMRN ) . |
| 9 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 10 | The t table has since been superseded by the fatter chips and bigger bytes of modern computing ; the pop-up menus of today 's statistical packages tempt the unwary with an appetising range of p values hardly imaginable in 1965 . |
| 11 | This has since been complemented by a Co-op super-store with 40 000 sq . |
| 12 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 13 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 14 | To all intents and purposes it is legal — it may look ugly but so do most of the putters these days , and the design has obviously been passed by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club , which does exercise a very tight control over such matters . |
| 15 | It has all been organised by a group of venture Scouts from Abingdon in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | With regard to his latter point , I know that he has sought , and has rightly been provided by the Department , a copy of the circular that we have sent to local authorities precisely to enlist their assistance to ensure that pensioners who will gain from the proposals receive those gains . |
| 17 | Legal theory has long been bedevilled by a sterile debate between positivists and natural lawyers . |
| 18 | Identification of insect bacterial symbionts has long been hampered by the inability to culture these fastidious prokaryotes . |
| 19 | The Spanish public sector , for example , has long been characterized by the politicization of public appointments ( see ch. 2 ) . |
| 20 | He has long been regarded by the trade as one of the top sporting gun men in the business , with years of experience behind him . |
| 21 | It has long been recognised by the courts that the protection of business secrets is a legitimate ground for the imposition of restrictions on persons to whom such secrets have been disclosed . |
| 22 | A campaign by environmental groups to shield the fragile Mojave and Sonoran deserts from the impact of mining , ranching , military and off-road use has long been opposed by the Reagan and Bush administrations and by the lobbying interests of the people who work and play in the desert . |
| 23 | Sir : The Royal Statistical Society 's concern ( 'Moves to monitor use of statistics by Government' , 9 October ) has long been shared by the social science community in this country . |
| 24 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 25 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 26 | Now they want to gain ownership of Wolvercote Common which has long been managed by a commoners committee . |
| 27 | Fortunately the city has long been protected by the sorcerous Shifting Isles but its ability to defend itself in the event of a serious invasion has long been in doubt . |
| 28 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 29 | The Institute had hoped that the Department of Trade and Industry would replace the existing Companies Act legislation with new provisions based on the Directives , but this route has apparently been dismissed by the DTI in its consultative document on implementation , because it would require primary legislation . |
| 30 | The kidnap has apparently been perpetrated by a cell of international terrorists , and that automatically makes it a matter for state security . |