Example sentences of "they have be [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , people have always wanted to do violence to those who stood in their way when they were attempting to commit robberies ; but they have been bound by certain conventions of which they were unaware . |
| 2 | Though it used to be thought that internationalism was the preserve of the large , private corporation , today they have been joined by small firms and many state enterprises . |
| 3 | Many of these pioneer voluntary bodies still exist , and they have been joined by large numbers of organizations that have arisen in recent years to tackle the needs of particular groups among the disabled , so that voluntary effort continues to play a major part in meeting the needs of the handicapped . |
| 4 | In the meantime , however , many old breeds have already become extinct , largely because they have been absorbed by other breeds . |
| 5 | Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems , long after they have been replaced by good ones . |
| 6 | Allowances such as the Married Man 's , Single Person 's and Wife 's Earned Income all reflected judgements about different family responsibilities and income requirements , The estimated cost in 1989/90 of these allowances was £26.7 million , but since April 1990 they have been replaced by Independent Taxation ( see below ) . |
| 7 | loss or damage to china , glass , earthenware and other items of a brittle nature unless they have been packaged by professional packers . |
| 8 | They have been fed non-sexist , multi-cultural books and toys along with their strained apricots ; they have been treated by female GPs , they have sat and watched Kaffe Fassett knitting and sewing on TV , but their ideas of male and female roles are as sexist as if we had never made the effort . |
| 9 | The applications can not be processed by the Housing Executive unless they have been assessed by occupational therapists from the Department of Health and unless recommendations are made by the occupational therapy department . |
| 10 | These are a complexity of outcropping veins on which 17th Century miners worked but in places they have been modified by subsequent operators . |
| 11 | These rules still exist ( see pp. 146–8 ) , but they have been supplemented by statutory provisions which enable a trader to acquire by registration at the Patent Office the exclusive right to use a distinctive trade mark in connection with his goods . |
| 12 | A number of dimensions of child rearing emerged from this material , and of these two are worth special mention because they have been found by other investigators too . |
| 13 | There are many people in that position , and they have been found by hon. Members and by social workers and others involved in welfare matters . |
| 14 | Sterling bonds have been traded in London for centuries ; they have been issued by commercial undertakings , by foreign governments and their agencies and above all by the British government . |
| 15 | The success of these names is shown by the fact that they have been admired by Chinese scholars such as Dr Lin Yutang , Dr Cheng Te-K'un , Dr Hollington Tong and others . |
| 16 | For , while these theories pursued distinctive concerns , ideas drawn from each of them have been blended by political theorists to create an identifiable body of ideas with certain distinctive characteristics . |
| 17 | Many of them have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it . |