Example sentences of "it have been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 2 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 3 | MacLink also has a role to play in the translation of information once it has been transferred by other communications systems ; simple serial links , modem or Email based file transfer or the third main method for getting files between Macintoshes and PCs , disk exchange . |
| 4 | This was , admittedly , the rather indeterminate ‘ walking speed ’ , though in more recent years it has been followed by widespread adoption of 30 km/h limits , especially in Germany . |
| 5 | It is submitted that these conclusions are wholly unjustified ; it has been rejected by other United States courts and it is difficult to see what purpose would be served by the inclusion of Article 10(a) in a convention on service of process if that was not its subject-matter . |
| 6 | It has been fertilised by German blood and sweat , and owes its culture to Germans . |
| 7 | But the concept of mutual mate choice has remained untested experimentally , although it has been supported by recent modelling . |
| 8 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 9 | The thickness of the Stinkdolomit in areas where it has been affected by late leaching is about 40–60 m and of this , about 10–20 m might be expected to constitute potential net pay . |
| 10 | An official announcement was expected at the end of the week , following a final meeting at Pirelli 's Milan headquarters , but it has been delayed by contractual difficulties with some of the company 's existing Italian agencies . |
| 11 | But if there is a distinctive female verbal culture — and here we need to bear in mind that women themselves are not a homogeneous group — I would argue that it has been shaped by patriarchal conditions , including the restrictions placed on women 's lives and words . |
| 12 | Of course , it is different if we intervene solely to restore the material condition of a work of art after it has been damaged by external forces such as an accident or vandalism . |
| 13 | It has been suggested by Australian authors that , because of all the gauge problems , Australians have always had an inferiority complex about their railways . |
| 14 | It has been rediscovered by dynamic psychology in the twentieth century , but it is an ancient insight and has been in the Bible all along . |
| 15 | This in itself suggests that it has been overtaken by other schedules currently being piloted , which directly involve service users . |
| 16 | It has been overtaken by local practices and informal agreements — and that has been the case since mechanisation of the industry began in the 1950s . |
| 17 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 18 | Now it has been acquired by US-based FMC corporation and its businesses will complement FMC 's existing line of phosphate esters made in West Virginia . |
| 19 | If expenditure is contained within a budget it implies that it has been approved by top management and no further approval is required . |
| 20 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 21 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 22 | Unlike the vivid adventure of the night before it had been peopled by sinister shadows . |
| 23 | It had been plagued by excessive absenteeism , restrictive practices , inter-union demarcation lines and poor product quality . |
| 24 | In the late 1980s , the European steel industry had an enormous over-capacity , partly because it had been undercut by Korean , Japanese , and other producers in the Pacific , partly because of a wave of added Italian steel capacity in the 1970s . |
| 25 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 26 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 27 | These later developments were aided by the Bass brewery group taking a 27 per cent stake in the company in 1985 — after it had been sought by Grand Metropolitan , another leisure grouping . |
| 28 | The position of the litigant who wrongly brings a case under Order 53 is different because Ord. 53 r. 9(5) may allow the case to continue as if it had been started by ordinary writ procedure . |
| 29 | Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark . |
| 30 | A statement issued by Glaxo says : ’ The company has consistently denied it has been negligent in any way in relation to the supply of Myodil , it voluntarily withdrew the product in 1987 , as it had been superceded by new products and technology . ’ |