Example sentences of "that have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 2 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 3 | Horses communicate by sound , sight , smell , body language , touch , and also by extra-sensory perception — the learning of something that has not been transmitted by the other senses . |
| 4 | There is scarcely an industry that has n't been affected by it ; from manufacturing through to publishing . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman rightly said that it is a waste of the doctor 's time for him to turn his attention to something that has already been decided by someone else and merely to rubberstamp it . |
| 6 | The fantasy of a rural arcadia — a myth that has already been condemned by both Margaret Thatcher and the Archbishop of Canterbury — is not , I hope , something I suffer from . |
| 7 | The common practice of putting pencil notes on the abstract itself is to be deprecated as defacing an important document , and it is also easy to miss these notes on an old and tattered abstract that has already been marked by previous investigators . |
| 8 | Or else you can try one of the , one of the solutions that has already been suggested by the officers . |
| 9 | Neither he nor manager John Lambie attended the sessions , but the players certainly appeared to have benefited from the wisdom that has already been used by Rangers and Liz McColgan , among others . |
| 10 | The player , who scored last weekend on his comeback against Partick Thistle , might dwell on the advancement that has recently been made by someone like Eoin Jess , however , and reason that he would be well advised to channel all his energies towards regaining the kind of status that had him as part of Scotland 's European championship squad eight months ago . |
| 11 | The papers bristled with tributes to ‘ a man who stood for tradition and dignity in a business that has recently been rocked by scandal and corruption ’ . |
| 12 | More than 40,000 fans and millions of television viewers saw on Wednesday night the effects of bad weather and excessive use of a pitch that has recently been shared by Rangers and Scotland . |
| 13 | The Future Development of Auditing , issued by the Auditing Practices Board , is the most important attempt to bridge the expectations gap that has ever been made by the British profession . |
| 14 | This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing selfconsciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 15 | ‘ This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing self-consciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 16 | The British legal system is already in a bit of a sorry state but this is only part of the story because we are faced with a creaking Government bureaucracy that has often been shown by the Higher Courts to be acting in an illegal and unfair manner . |
| 17 | It was not surprising , therefore , to find evidence that many of these teachers had been making carefully thought out and constructive efforts to develop more structured and appropriate approaches to this kind of assessment ; a process that has undoubtedly been accelerated by the introduction of the GCSE . |
| 18 | Late in the dynasty , some species developed an even more sophisticated kind of eye and one that has never been paralleled by any other animal . |
| 19 | This reflects both a desire to uphold tradition and the fact that natural dyes produce a subtle beauty of tone that has never been equalled by even the finest synthetic dyes . |
| 20 | For Chicago 's Exhibitors Film Exchange ‘ the Meaning of the Movies ’ was that the benefits and aspiration that had previously been offered by ‘ a dozen agencies ’ were now combined in one form for the motion picture was taking over from painting , sculpture , travel , history and so on . |
| 21 | One consequence of this boom was the large scale corporate invasion of the estate agency sector , a sector that had previously been dominated by mediumD and smallD sized firms . |
| 22 | Central to this was a process of taking control of the workplace away from the operatives and placing it in the hands of management by providing the latter with the technical information that had formerly been monopolized by the former . |
| 23 | Of particular importance from the Soviet point of view , states of this kind were held to be ‘ objectively anti-imperialist ’ in that they generally opposed the substantial control over their domestic affairs that had traditionally been exercised by the major capitalist powers . |
| 24 | Carson ( 1971 ) identified the achievement that had already been made by the mechanics approach and predicted that more would follow , but that because most erosional processes are weathering-limited to varying degrees , therefore on a geological time-scale erosion mechanics must be closely linked with the mechanics and chemistry of rock breakdown . |
| 25 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 26 | A decision was taken to use bus technology in producing a body to be mounted on the trucks that had already been designed by the Department and were operating successfully . |
| 27 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 28 | The birds of a second group were put alone in a cage with a full milk container that had already been opened by the experimenters . |
| 29 | Definitely , we do n't if we were crossing an area that had n't been secured by any other officer , so we were particularly concerned that we should get out of any possible danger area . |
| 30 | On the line the only affair that had n't been ruined by his previous , all-consuming life in the SAS , or destroyed by his own turbulent and possessive nature . |