Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The rise in student numbers in polytechnics has not been matched by an increase in teaching staff . |
| 3 | However , the growth has not been matched by an increase in lessees ' sophistication . |
| 4 | In short , the growing participation of women in the labour force has not been matched by an equal growth of male participation in the home . |
| 5 | All this is happening against a background of spending cuts imposed by local authorities upon their colleges so that the growth in demand has not been matched by an increase of the capacity of the further education system in Wales to meet this demand . |
| 6 | But this has not been matched by an increased commitment to capital expenditure and Mr Jordan expressed concern that while most member companies had weathered the recession ‘ surviving companies are probably not investing sufficiently in keeping up with technological progress ’ . |
| 7 | However the adoption of the systems approach as a textbook framework , although producing some stimulating texts which effectively transcended the traditional boundaries of physical geography ( e.g. Chorley and Kennedy , 1971 ; Trudgill 1977 ) , has not been paralleled by an equal amount of adoption as a vehicle for research programmes . |
| 8 | Industrialization has not only uncovered ageing , but has also been accompanied by an increase in the average age of reproduction , and economic factors may mean that this trend continues . |
| 9 | Again , the geographical mobility of labour — or lack of it — has often been determined by an inadequate supply of a range of new social overhead capital , particularly of housing . |
| 10 | Although the mechanisms behind this geographical variance are unclear , what is not in dispute is that spatial polarization in voting behaviour has increased steadily , especially during the three general elections of 1979 , 1983 and 1987 , making it difficult to disagree with the conclusion that the ‘ nationalization ’ of British politics has now been replaced by an emerging local differentiation . |
| 11 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 12 | It has now been joined by an attractive estate model , also available with automatic . |
| 13 | Since the stock market crash at the end of that year , policy has however been dogged by an excessive fear of recession , and it would have compounded this mistake to have failed to raise British base rates to 15 per cent this week . |
| 14 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 15 | They had apparently been contaminated by an oily radioactive slick . |
| 16 | These ideas were informed by a paper which had already been produced by an active member of the local Mencap group , who had previously tried to generate the debate within the Community Health Service through the Mencap committee . |
| 17 | The Commission reserved anti-trust powers under the Treaty of Rome to investigate mergers which had already been approved by an individual member state . |
| 18 | Whilst investigations were being carried out , it has emerged that the premises had not been inspected by an E H O for over five years . |
| 19 | Moreover the advertisements had not been approved by an authorised person . |
| 20 | The Universiade GB board also announced that the immediate cash-flow problems , revealed a week ago , had now been resolved by an injection of funds by Sheffield City Council and that further offers of financial support are to be followed up immediately . |
| 21 | The offer , regarded as a boost to private and direct foreign investment [ see p. 39099 ] , had reportedly been prompted by an attempt to supplement the inadequate resources of the state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Commission and Oil India . |
| 22 | It could mean the recovery for the communal purposes of the monastery of land which had previously been regarded by an aristocratic family as a private-property share in its endowments . |
| 23 | There 's a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage . |
| 24 | Attempts at privatisation , designed to push SOEs on to the global bandwagon , have often been accompanied by an easing of equity limitations in other sectors . |
| 25 | Or , perhaps all our democratic rights have now been superseded by an even more compelling one — the right not to know . |