Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 2 | Anybody who supposes that the events of 1983 in the Caribbean have left the humbug of the Commonwealth unscathed is as self-deceived as those who imagine that the humbug of the United Nations has been unscathed by the events of 1982 in the South Atlantic . |
| 3 | The selection of paper and board manufacturers/retailers has been pre-selected by the magazine . |
| 4 | Faber has been delighted by the response from booksellers to its £100,000 ‘ How to become a millionaire ’ spring promotion . |
| 5 | It is working closely with HSE , and has been impressed by the progress made since 1974 in moving towards a much more thorough understanding of the real reasons for major breaches of safety , and of how to make them less likely . |
| 6 | Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions . |
| 7 | The government is hoping for a vote of confidence in the elections , and has been dismayed by the support the Front appears to be getting . |
| 8 | Many a visitor has been embarrassed by the fact that Reykjavik airport is different from Keflavik . |
| 9 | Delhi 's response has been complicated by the existence of the lame-duck Kashmiri state government of Dr Farooq Abdullah , who fought last month 's general election in alliance with the then governing Congress party , and which is deeply unpopular in the valley . |
| 10 | In Ireland , however , the position has been complicated by the failure of the attempted union with Britain . |
| 11 | The development of serological assays for antibody responses to H pylori antigens has been complicated by the fact that H pylori organisms share antigens with other bacterial species , such as Campylobacter jejuni . |
| 12 | Graham Greene does this so thoroughly that the country of his imagination has been dignified by the name of ‘ Greeneland ’ . |
| 13 | As myths go , the Leavis myth was widely successful : but then what teacher , when he tells the young that he has been ill-treated by the world for his opinions , is not believed ? |
| 14 | Since writing his Book of the Royal Wedding , published in 1981 , he has been amazed by the evolution of the Princess of Wales . |
| 15 | Since the book appeared in America , Rock has been surprised by the letters he 's received ‘ from people who live in the suburbs or small flats where the father is the king , where his armchair is the throne . |
| 16 | The small practitioner has been frightened by the spectre of the JMU into throwing the baby out with the bathwater . |
| 17 | Payment has been satisfied by the issue of 274,914 Savoy ‘ A ’ shares . |
| 18 | The chronology of Penda 's reign has been confused by a variety of different regnal lengths . |
| 19 | He was put on probation and ordered to do community service after a solicitor said he 'd been upset by the death of his mother . |
| 20 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 21 | IF President FW de Klerk was hoping to ease the pressure on his government by announcing the release of eight prominent prisoners on Tuesday , he must have been disappointed by the reaction . |
| 22 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 23 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 24 | Howard might well have been impressed by the importance given to classification by TDC , despite the fact that it seems to be unfashionable in western European administrations . |
| 25 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 26 | Their regimes may have been impoverished by the emphasis on security and restrictions on movement within the prison , but at least the physical settings avoided the squalor and overcrowding which worsened in the local prisons . |
| 27 | He recorded a visit of several days to Thorndon , Lord Petre 's estate , where he collected many rare specimens and must have been delighted by the tapestry of exotic climbers woven through trellises at the back of the stoves ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 28 | Thomas felt that if this was one of the shapechangers then it would have transformed itself into a creature which would have been untouched by the explosion . |
| 29 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 30 | The SSFA said the cash flow problems of the salmon farmers inside the fishing and harvesting exclusion zone should have been relieved by the £1 million bridging fund set up by the Scottish Office . |