Example sentences of "has been [verb] by the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Building Housing Cost Index ( prepared by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 2 | Your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Durable Household Goods Section of the Government 's General Index of Retail Prices in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 3 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
| 4 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
| 5 | For 120 years the Bulls Head has been kept by the same family … this is landlord David Gane outside the pub around 1920 . |
| 6 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 7 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |
| 8 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 9 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 10 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 11 | The Government has been told by the former Lord-Justice General that its appointment of temporary judges in Scotland 's courts could lead to miscarriages of justice . |