Example sentences of "has been [vb pp] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fall in pregnancy rate has been explained by the greater use of contraceptives by teenagers , particularly those over sixteen . |
| 2 | Yet , on the one hand this contradiction has been hidden by privileging Gregory 's comments and neglecting the importance of the Epistulae Austrasiacae and the writings of Venantius Fortunatus ; on the other , it has been explained by the apparent lack of educational opportunities available to Gregory in the households of Nicetius and Avitus . |
| 3 | The excellence of the programme has been recognised by the European Community which aids the project through the European Social Fund , and staff at the Centre share their expertise with colleagues in training centres in Ireland and the Netherlands . |
| 4 | This interdependence of general economic policy with monetary policy has been recognised by the French government as well : one monetary policy means one economic policy . |
| 5 | Attention to detail and our high level of engineering integrity has been recognised by the top yacht designers and has led to constant involvement in rigs for all yacht projects from seventy to three hundred feet . |
| 6 | THE meteoric rise to rugby fame of Nigel Walker , the former Olympic hurdler , has been recognised by the Welsh selectors . |
| 7 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 8 | The beautiful ‘ Descent into Limbo ’ from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson has been dated by the Metropolitan 's Keith Christiansen ( curator of the paintings section ) to around 1492 , but in the opinion of a number of scholars including David Landau , the exhibition 's organiser , there are strong stylistic arguments for placing it much earlier in the artist 's oeuvre . |
| 9 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 10 | BRITAIN HAS been instructed by the European Community to suspend immediately key provisions of the 1988 Merchant Shipping Act , designed to repel a 100- strong armada of Spanish vessels fishing in United Kingdom waters . |
| 11 | The Magistrate will record the complaint in the words of the party — as he has been instructed by the outdoor proctor — and the case will then go on , subject to the same conditions as at present . ’ |
| 12 | That the appropriate award for non-pecuniary loss may vary in differing social and economic conditions in different parts of the world has been stated by the Privy Council in Jag Singh v Toong Fong Omnibus Co [ 1964 ] 1 WLR 1382 , per Lord Morris : |
| 13 | This has been assisted by the continuing process of urbanization and delocalizing of religious experience . |
| 14 | A mathematical theory of statistical predictors and how to assess their accuracy has been developed by the principal investigator and others . |
| 15 | A NEW technique to enable men with irreversible vasectomies to become fathers has been developed by the Surgical Advisory Service , a private London infertility clinic . |
| 16 | In Africa the legionary habit has been developed by the so-called driver ants . |
| 17 | The award has been developed by the Scottish Industrial Liaison Committee for Greenkeeper Training . |
| 18 | The Institute 's Information Technology Faculty has issued a new statement on IT contingency planning , the importance of which , it says , has been highlighted by the recent terrorist activity in the City of London . |
| 19 | Not only does it discredit the emphasis on ‘ partnership ’ between Central Government and the faith communities which has been highlighted by the recent establishment of the Inner Cities Religious Council ( and re-emphasised at the meetings which you attended in Bradford on May 21st and Kirklees on October 27th ) but it also means that church and other faith communities will be less likely to play their full part in the implementation of other aspects of Government policy such as the forthcoming Community Care changes which will require the use of local premises , volunteers etc . |
| 20 | The incident has been highlighted by the Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) as an example of the damage being done by the worldwide trade in wild birds . |
| 21 | The inadequacy of this approach has been highlighted by the general economic recession and energy crisis of the 1970's ; it has also had far less impact in the disadvantaged rural areas ( DRAs ) . |
| 22 | The incident , which caused the deaths of hundreds of flamingo chicks , has been highlighted by the Natural Heritage Defence League as an example of lack of coordination between public environmental organisations . |
| 23 | News that the region has backed plans to create purchasing consortiums has been criticized by the British Medical Association . |
| 24 | The importance of the traditional monitoring role of the LEA has been strengthened by the recent legislation particularly as the 1988 Act has transferred considerably increased responsibility for the management of schools and colleges to governors , heads and principals . |
| 25 | Marlborough 's list of British artists has been strengthened by the recent addition of Christopher Lebrun , formerly contracted to Nigel Greenwood . |
| 26 | It has been strengthened by the continued attention paid by the Americans to their own arid regions and , in later years , by the general increase of research in Africa . |
| 27 | It provides a national platform for information and debate and has been strengthened by the willing co-operation received from SCOTVEC , CAST , SCRE , SCET , HCTB , representatives from industry , Jordanhill College School of Further Education and college Principals . |
| 28 | The form in which group relief claims should be made has been determined by the Inland Revenue under s 42(5) , TMA 1970 ( p 116 ) . |
| 29 | The form in which group relief claims should be made has been determined by the Inland Revenue under s 42(5) , TMA 1970 . |
| 30 | KPMG has been appointed by the European Commission to carry out a survey of venture capitalists in the European Community . |