Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] by an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been explained by an increased number of transient sphincter relaxations after a meal . |
| 2 | The new artificial pancreas has been developed by an American company called Biohybrid Technologies , and the Harvard University Medical School . |
| 3 | That preference has been strengthened by an alarming rise in unemployment since last autumn . |
| 4 | expert has been appointed by an appointing authority . |
| 5 | The life expectancy of the Pegasus , for example , has been extended by an estimated five to ten years . |
| 6 | Some say diffidently that the ERM has been assaulted by an extraordinary and unrepeatable event ( German unification ) ; or that the underlying imbalances which caused last September 's breakdown ( the pound and some other currencies were over-valued against the D-mark ) have now been sorted out . |
| 7 | The exposure of his hypocrisy has been made by an innate moral principle in the universe . |
| 8 | AN art exhibition on lesbians , due to open at Darlington 's Arts Centre has been condemned by an outraged Tory councillor . |
| 9 | So : your Uccello has been skewered by an assegai-wielding sociopath convinced that some noxious item of legislation will be reversed once he Goths a valuable masterpiece . |
| 10 | This is the analysis which was presented in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) and has been followed by an enormous number of works exploring the same field . |
| 11 | Novato , California-based WordStar International Inc has been hit by an Australian court award against it ordering it to pay $3.2m to Perfect Information Pty Ltd as damages on its claim it was wrongfully terminated as one of WordStar 's Australian distributors ; WordStar will appeal the ruling , maintaining the plaintiff was never lawfully engaged as a distributor . |
| 12 | In another field , that of child care law , the relationship between parents ' , children 's and state interests and rights has been affected by an increasing emphasis on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare . |
| 13 | In Germany , the Social Democrats ' caution about reunification has been punished by an enthusiastic electorate . |
| 14 | For banks , the immediate effect is to reduce the size of their balance sheets : deposit liabilities have fallen and the fall has been matched by an equal reduction in their deposits at the Bank of England . |
| 15 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 16 | If this royal retreat has been trampled by an enthusiastic tourist — which is increasingly the case — the insect is doomed . |
| 17 | If the damage has been caused by an insured peril covered under Part B e.g. fire damage , then the damage to the freezer would be covered under Part B — Household Contents . |
| 18 | Hoffman mugs satisfactorily in the leading role , but his voice has been dubbed by an Italian actor . |
| 19 | The project has been mounted by an international team , led by Paola Marini of the Museo Civico in Bassano , Beverly Louise Brown for the Kimbell , Filippa Aliberti Gaudioso for the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici del Veneto , and the distinguished Bassano scholars , Roger Rearick and Alessandro Ballarin . |
| 20 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 21 | But he was in poor health when the latter was written , and both books reflect his increasing pessimism about international affairs ; as Edward Blishen says , ‘ the positive and determined John Dolittle has been replaced by an unhappy dreamer . ’ |
| 22 | THANK goodness Hallowe'en is over — and what a shame that this time of superstition and harmless fun has been replaced by an imported nonsense called trick-or-treat . |
| 23 | The brown of the plains has been replaced by an underlying green , like the velvet on a stag 's antlers . |
| 24 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 25 | Since the first democratic regional elections took place in 1976 , the Region has been governed by an overwhelming Popular Social Democratic majority . |
| 26 | Since 1959 the republic has been governed by an unchanged four-party coalition of the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP ) , the Social Democratic Party ( SPS ) , the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP ) and the Swiss People 's Party ( SVP ) . |
| 27 | Live Projects involve students , individually or in teams , in project work concerned with meeting a real need which has been identified by an outside employer . |
| 28 | The growth in computer-based online information retrieval has been accompanied by an ever-increasing number of promotion , training and education courses . |
| 29 | The current recession has been accompanied by an unprecedented rise in the incidence of default on loans by both households and companies |
| 30 | ONE of the great controversies of archaeology , the possibilty of transatlantic cultural links in ancient times , has been re-opened by an American expedition which claims to have found three large stone tablets inscribed with ancient Semitic hieroglyphs in a 9,000ft high lost city deep in the Peruvian jungle . |