Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main Commonwealth case from a country with a common law jurisdiction is Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 , a decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in an appellate capacity which has since been accepted by other appellate courts in Australia as a correct statement of the law , that is to say the common law of Australia . |
| 2 | Their map has since been superseded by photographic atlases . |
| 3 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 4 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 5 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 6 | The heavy work has all been done by countless great-grandmothers and their mates . |
| 7 | It has long been argued by feminist critics that ‘ community care ’ is merely a euphemism for care by the family — which in turn means care by women . |
| 8 | Members of the Aetherius Society — who think that Earth has long been visited by benevolent travellers from outer space — believe that Ben Macdhui houses an underground dome-shaped auditorium visited by aliens . |
| 9 | On the political campaigns for which the NUS has long been criticised by Conservative MPs , the charter suggests that associations and the union should be allowed to lobby on issues which affect students . |
| 10 | On the political campaigns for which the NUS has long been criticised by Conservative MPs , the charter suggests that associations and the union should be allowed to lobby on issues which affect students . |
| 11 | Kanamycin is included in the guidelines , but this has long been superseded by other aminoglycosides . |
| 12 | On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years . |
| 13 | The construction of a large grammar represents a major problem in it 's own right which has only been attempted by well-funded projects . |
| 14 | Indeed , he points out that traditionally the IEEE has not been swayed by big name support if it feels another technology is more meritorious . |
| 15 | RENFE repeatedly complained that deficit financing weakened management ‘ which has not been motivated by economic or commercial considerations but purely by technical ones ’ ( RENFE 1971m : 49 ) . |
| 16 | This pattern has not been altered by recent changes in village life . |
| 17 | The strange occurrence at Ingrow Tunnel has not been explained by logical reasons and so must be regarded as , maybe , a paranormal phenomenon . |
| 18 | Personality has not been shown by industrial psychologists to be a very helpful predictor of performance . |
| 19 | Piero della Francesca has not been forgotten by Milanese publishers in the year of the five hundredth anniversary of his death . |
| 20 | This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people . |
| 21 | The European Council notes that the progress made in the completion of the internal market has not been accompanied by comparable progress in the field of social policy . |
| 22 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 23 | Self-belief has been a problem this season and has not been helped by narrow defeats against Wasps ( 11–7 ) , Saracens ( 13–12 ) and London Irish ( 12–9 ) and a 9–9 draw with Rugby . |
| 24 | Consequently , it has largely been supplanted by neo-Marxist analysis . |
| 25 | In other words , just as the poverty experienced by women has largely been obscured by household-based studies of income and expenditure , so we need also to examine the patterns of expenditure and consumption within care-giving households , in order to assess the full costs to informal carers . |
| 26 | However it has already been challenged by live sheep interests who are arguing that a large proportion of exported animals are sold for further feeding and not direct for slaughter . |
| 27 | Some development work has already been done by pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of bottles and caps , and satisfactory child resistant containers are expected to be available for use with liquid medicines in the near future . |
| 28 | A letter of intent has already been signed by local government and a Malaysian investment company , but approval is pending from Peking and the International Motor Racing Association . |
| 29 | Moreover ( and this point has already been appreciated by alert education advisers ) in-service training within the school does not require extra staff , extra equipment or extra classroom space ; it makes use of what is immediately and necessarily available . |
| 30 | SGI 's Iris GL has already been endorsed by large sections of the industry , including DEC , IBM , Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp , as a standard for their high-end graphics developments . |