Example sentences of "[noun sg] been [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be . |
| 2 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 3 | How has maths teaching been influenced by the introduction of calculators and computers ? |
| 4 | But has the heart of British industry been influenced by the hype and pressure to change ? |
| 5 | The ego is that part of the id which has through perception been modified by the external world . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you agree with us , ’ I am asked , ‘ or has your manliness been squashed by the hard feminists ? ’ |
| 7 | Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master . |
| 8 | How has the ‘ reasonable man ’ test been interpreted by the courts ? |
| 9 | Have the procedures for ensuring a responsive bureaucracy been nullified by the power of the bureaucracy itself , so that the functionaries , rather than elected politicians ( who are no longer easily distinguishable from bureaucrats themselves ) , rule ? |
| 10 | I had walked about five hundred yards and yet only in this one spot , about as big in area as my dining table , had the normally silty bottom been cleared by the actions of the fish and clearly exposing masses of broken mussel shell fragments against which the zander stood out very boldly . |
| 11 | Nor could it have happened on such a scale had the banks ' powers of credit-creation been constrained by the prudential rules governing national financial structures . |
| 12 | This allows a number of things to take place : ( a ) the investors can progress or complete the syndication of the investment ; ( b ) inter-group accounts and guarantees can be resolved ; ( c ) Newco can set up its own pension scheme or organise the provision of services that have in the past been provided by the vendors . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) Pre-bid discussions with privileged shareholders ( eg institutions ) have in the past been forbidden by the Panel on the basis that they contravene General Principle 2 ( information should be made available to all shareholders alike ) . |
| 14 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |
| 15 | The Department of Energy , for example , was responsible for providing an £80,000 grant to the Cornwall Energy Project ( CEP ) , a research group promoting the use of conservation and renewable sources of energy in the South-West peninsula , The CEP had in turn been requested by the local authorities consortium to provide evidence to the inquiry against the Electricity Board 's case . |
| 16 | As will have been apparent from the discussion on pre-emptive rights , this borrowing by the stock markets of an expression ‘ equities ’ derived from the activities of Courts of Chancery has in turn been borrowed by the companies ' legislation in its definition of ‘ equity securities ’ and ‘ equity share capital . ’ |
| 17 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 18 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 19 | Never before , in all the years of his work upon the project , has Christo been championed by the Bundestag 's president , but , paradoxically , Dr Suessmuth 's position of authority may be as much a hindrance as an advantage to his cause . |
| 20 | The social standing of deaf people may also have in no small way been aided by the Princess of Wales ( later Queen Alexandra ) who was stone deaf and who used fingerspelling as well as lipreading to communicate . |
| 21 | 11.1 Save as provided in clause 11.2 no agent adviser or other person acting for the Landlord has at any time prior to the making of this agreement been authorised by the Landlord to make to the Tenant or to any agent adviser or other person acting for the Tenant any representation whatever ( whether written oral or implied ) in relation to the Site or the Premises or to any matter contained or referred to in this agreement |
| 22 | In none of the patients had the diagnosis been considered by the referring doctor and many patients had been subjected to extensive investigations . |
| 23 | Decio where the courts ruled that a corporation could not recover unless it first proved that it had in fact been injured by the insider 's illicit trading . |
| 24 | The irony was that many Nepmen had in fact been nurtured by the state during the harsh economic stringencies of War Communism . |
| 25 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |
| 26 | ( This decree had in fact been proposed by the BSP in response to threats by opposition protesters to set fire to themselves if the symbols were not removed ; on the very day of its approval workmen had taken down a hammer and sickle crest adorning the facade of the BSP headquarters . ) |
| 27 | Towns like Sherwood , Arnold and Beeston , have to a certain extent been absorbed by the City and this is visible in the application of the model . |
| 28 | In this example , whilst the market has to some extent been created by the regulators , the safety technology has been transferred mainly through the business activities of the safety consultants . |
| 29 | For a start , Britain has to an extent been forced by the rules and practices of the EEC artificially to divert her exporting efforts to Europe and away from where they may have been more beneficially employed for her in the rest of the world . |
| 30 | However that theory has to a certain extent been undermined by the ratio of this judgment which says that during employment the employee may not disclose or use his skill and knowledge to the detriment of his employer without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |