Example sentences of "[noun pl] has been [verb] by " in BNC.

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31 The need to be extra vigilant at all times has been stressed by terminal operations manager Roy Beardall following a security alert at Sullom Voe in August .
32 Thus it is suggested that a hierarchy of social groups has been replaced by a hierarchy of individuals .
33 The ‘ proletarianization ’ of such groups has been stimulated by their rapid post-war growth , and because they are directly employed by large corporations or the state .
34 This intake of children from ethnic minority groups has been associated by some with difficulties within the school , such as ‘ declining standards ’ and ‘ discipline problems ’ .
35 Now that the firing of horses ' legs has been banned by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for soft tissue injuries , this has effectively removed that type of treatment .
36 On the other hand , entry by intermediaries to currency sectors has been facilitated by the advent of swaps and improvements in technology .
37 The changing nature of these relationships can tell us much about broader aspects of political change in Mexico , in particular the extent to which the corporatist pact with peasants , labour and popular sectors has been eroded by the impact of the economic crisis and the search for new forms of political representation within civil society .
38 Labour claims that central government capital spending on schools has been cut by 29 per cent in real terms since 1979 , while LEA spending has been squeezed mercilessly .
39 Capital spending on schools has been cut by £190 million or 32 per cent since 1979 .
40 The management of our schools has been conditioned by both the ideology and practice of hierarchy and control to a point at which , in some cases , it must attract the pejorative term of managerialism , a condition under which the artificial needs of managers , organisations , systems , bureaucracies or routines assume dominance over the real needs of children .
41 But the omission of Dahl for younger readers has been criticised by Amanda Conquy , who administers the late author 's literary estate .
42 A more positive view of women readers has been suggested by , for instance , analysing what girls say about their reading ( Frazer 1987 ) , or by examining the ways in which they incorporate its models into their own writing .
43 The similarity between these solutions has been noted by Feinstein and Ibañez ( 1989 ) , who have used known cosmological solutions to obtain a new class of colliding plane wave solutions .
44 A simpler realization of the Geroch group of transformations which is specifically applied to colliding wave solutions has been found by Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1987 b ) .
45 The ‘ pervasive desire ’ for a cappella solutions has been impelled by the musical excellences made possible by the choral institutions ( all tinged with a Protestant Englishness that most members of the forum probably imagine that they have never espoused ) .
46 A CHARITY which takes deprived children on camping trips has been helped by a Middlesbrough hotel .
47 The ecology of saline lakes has been reviewed by Heywood ( 1984 ) and Vincent ( 1988 ) .
48 Pressure for multiple units has been alleviated by making the 09.25 summer Saturday Birmingham to Pwllheli loco-hauled with a 31 providing the motive power .
49 A range of multi-tiered refrigerated display units has been launched by Grundy Oliver Toms .
50 The explicit relation between this technique and other methods has been discussed by Cosgrove ( 1980 , 1982 ) .
51 A meeting of those concerned in educating both undergraduates and new graduates in industry and research in the techniques and applications of thermal methods has been organised by the Thermal Methods Group .
52 A Directory of Communication Trainers has been published by People in Communication , the network of communication organisations in the Philippines .
53 In the 1980s the United Kingdom New Issue market in equities has been affected by two major developments .
54 The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture .
55 The number of doctors and dentists has been increased by 17,000 , and the real resources committed to GP services have doubled since 1979 .
56 The history of Soviet relations with non-Leninist friends and clients has been marked by reversals and desertions ( for instance , Indonesia in 1965 , Egypt in 1972 , Somalia in 1978 ) , and when trouble looms , the USSR 's ability to influence events may be found wanting .
57 The idea of maximizing the product of individual utilities has been employed by Fair ( 1971 ) and has been criticized by Ng ( 1979 ) .
58 Their spatial distribution in some rural districts has been noted by Dunn et al .
59 A haul of stolen cars has been seized by police officers in a two day operation in which eighteen people were arrested .
60 A haul of stolen cars has been seized by police officers in a two day operation in which eighteen people were arrested .
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