Example sentences of "it have been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly it has been challenged by a rival account which might be called a ‘ teleology of the oppressed ’ . |
| 2 | There are special toothpastes which are not harmful if swallowed , and brushing your dog 's teeth is actually very easy once it has been demonstrated by a vet . |
| 3 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 4 | I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out . |
| 5 | Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit . |
| 6 | However , since it has been obtained by a real transformation followed by an Ehlers transformation , as described at the end of Section 12.2 it is essentially simply a rotation and rescaling of the Szekeres solutions . |
| 7 | The presumption of innocence has not been toppled ; rather , it has been corroded by a series of laws on alcohol and tobacco , football hooliganism , drugs , videos and even badgers . |
| 8 | It has been supported by a number of outside bodies previously , but the Authority were not able to find it from their base allocation this year in order to continue . |
| 9 | It has been replaced by a commonwealth of independent states . |
| 10 | It has been argued by a former Chief Advisory Officer of the Nature Conservancy Council that the implications for wildlife conservation may be considerable . |
| 11 | This , it has been argued by a group of German and British Marxists in the 1960s and 1970s , means that the form of the state must be shaped by the nature of class conflict and struggle in society . |
| 12 | Answer guide : The reason for choosing this example is that this particular area is subject to rapid changes in technology which make estimation of useful life extremely difficult as in many cases there is still utility in the asset but it has been superseded by a ‘ better ’ alternative . |
| 13 | Hence , the horse may spend the day avoiding mature people , and then find to its surprise that it has been caught by a child-foal that it had not perceived as possessing such ability . |
| 14 | It has been paralleled by a similar increase in Langstone Harbour in Hampshire , which is only separated from Chichester Harbour by Hayling Island ; in fact , the two harbours join at the north end of Hayling . |
| 15 | He said that the long-distance part of the network has been costing the government around £11m per year to run : ‘ It has been found by a continued process of review that it is no longer cost-effective for the government to continue running it itself , ’ he said . |
| 16 | One could argue pop has declined not because it has been infiltrated by a counter-cultural message , but because of the demise of the Sixties counter-culture . |
| 17 | From July 22 , EC Directive 2092/91 comes into force , making it an offence to describe a wine as organic unless it has been approved by a governing body , itself approved by the EC . |
| 18 | It has been sponsored by a grant from John W. Kluge . |
| 19 | The European method is exactly the reverse : the right exists unless it has been abridged by a law which , moreover , has to be specifically justified . |
| 20 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 21 | It has been stocked by booksellers , and it has been purchased by a variety of people . |
| 22 | For it to have left archaeological evidence it would have been necessary for it to have been manifested by a physical act of some kind , which would necessarily need to result in the production of something capable of preservation in the archaeological context . |
| 23 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 24 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 25 | It had been made by a famous couturier . |
| 26 | It had been made by a galactically known artist — an ancient , smelly and mostly blind human living on a renovated asteroid near the Home System where Old Earth still spins . |
| 27 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 28 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |
| 29 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 30 | Nonetheless the rebels immediately announced their rejection of the new Constitution on the grounds that it had been adopted by a National Assembly which the MNR considered invalid . |