Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] by such " in BNC.
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| 1 | This inherent seriousness has been increased by such dour teachers as Calvin and Luther . |
| 2 | The appeal was launched with the help of former patients whose recovery from terrible injuries has been helped by such treatment . |
| 3 | Thus the inception of a new focus for the study of chronology has been promoted by such stimulating developments and Bowen ( 1979 ) points out that the CLIMAP group have discovered significant evidence which supports the idea that the immediate future is one of adverse orbital geometry and general cooling and hence that ‘ the prediction of the future must rest on the past in the present ’ ( Bowen , 1979 , p. 181 ) . |
| 4 | It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme . |
| 5 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 6 | Certainly , his intellectual position would not have been jeopardised by such an extension of his arguments . |
| 7 | In the early 1960s an American writer dubbed Karajan the conductor of ‘ mathematicians [ Bach would probably have been flattered by such an appellation ] and engineers ’ . |
| 8 | With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand . |
| 9 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 10 | This resulted in the construction of churches that could not possibly have been supported by such a small population — there were fifteen in the town centre alone — and these were maintained by the bull priests for secret ritual and ceremonial services on 13 November , the ‘ festal day ’ . |
| 11 | Caringolat and the other tutors at Por Tanssie would surely have been stupefied by such a lewd spectacle . |
| 12 | It is possible that some of the high recorded reflectance values from the East Midlands Platform and Cleveland High areas may have been enhanced by such effects . |
| 13 | The variation in size would have been enormous as the existing parish councils would have been joined by such cities as Sheffield as ‘ local councils ’ . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |
| 15 | The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions . |
| 16 | Financial troubles marred these years : fear of arrest for debt probably motivated his flight to the Continent in November 1777 ; his resignation from the army in May 1780 may likewise have been prompted by such troubles . |
| 17 | Certainly it was popular in Hellenistic and Roman times , and as a free-standing statue was no doubt a late idea ; but the idea could very well have been suggested by such fifth-century pediment-statues as these . |
| 18 | It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings . |
| 19 | ‘ The divine right of kings does n't mean you can pinch my soap , ’ Fairbrother had snarled , and the three other boys in the wash room had been electrified by such dazzling insolence . |
| 20 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 21 | Fairlie , who is widely credited with inventing the phrase ‘ the Establishment ’ during the Burgess and Maclean revelations in September 1955 , alleged that the two diplomats had been protected by such an Establishment . |
| 22 | The censor lost his job when the pious preface brought laughter down on the Church that had been duped by such an obvious pretence . |
| 23 | A sector which is under pressure from imports may seek voluntary export restraints on the part of the foreign suppliers ( a wide range of Japanese exports to the United States have been affected by such agreements ) . |
| 24 | In the past year-and-a-half , 2,500 Colombians have been killed by such groups and a further 250 have disappeared after being detained by security forces , according to Amnesty . |
| 25 | ‘ We regularly come into contact with elderly people whose lives have been ruined by such cowardly attacks , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , useful insights have been offered by such workers as Anderson , Hegarty and Hodgson . |
| 27 | Cinema , further , more than any other cultural product , has been structured around sexuality , or rather around the objectification of male desire in screen images of women — that is , film narratives themselves have been structured by such a patriarchal economy of desire . |