Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This experimental solution has since been confirmed by a purely mathematical analysis carried out by H. L. Cox . |
| 2 | After his death in March 1984 , the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery under the leadership of Brig. -Gen. ( now Maj.-Gen. ) |
| 3 | After his death in March 1984 the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery ( CMRN ) . |
| 4 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 5 | This has since been complemented by a Co-op super-store with 40 000 sq . |
| 6 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 7 | Airline access to Heathrow had hitherto been restricted by a rule introduced in 1977 , declaring that only those airlines which already served it could continue to do so . |
| 8 | In recent times , farm incomes in disadvantaged rural areas such as upland N E Scotland have only been maintained by a reduction in farm numbers , an increase in farm size and a fall in farm employment . |
| 9 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 10 | Many a case had only been solved by a combination of Morton 's flair and his own instincts . |
| 11 | He had apparently been adopted by a wealthy industrialist . |
| 12 | The kidnap has apparently been perpetrated by a cell of international terrorists , and that automatically makes it a matter for state security . |
| 13 | Legal theory has long been bedevilled by a sterile debate between positivists and natural lawyers . |
| 14 | Now they want to gain ownership of Wolvercote Common which has long been managed by a commoners committee . |
| 15 | It has all been organised by a group of venture Scouts from Abingdon in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | The early opposition between writing and history which enabled a critique from an outer limit has thus been replaced by a dissension within Foucault 's own discursive practice . |
| 17 | Rather than being closely correlated with any absolute level of poverty , unrest has generally been sparked by a decline in living standards or by the disappointment of rising expectations . |
| 18 | He said that the erroneous advice from the IT member of staff was irrelevant because of the advice which Mr Sen had already been given by a solicitor . |
| 19 | The wide applications of Mouse Alert have already been seen by a variety of customers , whose needs range from protecting high technology equipment , ensuring that perishable foods leave premises uncontaminated , and knowing that pharmaceutical products remain sterile . |
| 20 | We need to analyse the interaction between electors , whose attitudes have already been influenced by a variety of considerations ( ranging from their own sense of both national and local political issues , down to whatever perception they might have concerning their need to accommodate themselves to their social superiors ) , and the party electioneers , who were determined to influence the electorate in whatever way they thought fit ( which invariably meant a combination of political propaganda and various forms of manipulation , bribery and intimidation ) . |
| 21 | The officers had already been convicted by a military tribunal in January [ see p. 37959 ] but the civilian court , which was required to confirm these sentences , showed itself to be more lenient . |
| 22 | Taking account of what has already been achieved by a student and breaching the barriers between separate sections of education and training calls for conscious management . |
| 23 | On the subject of local histories — especially town histories — it is very possible that the ground will have already been explored by a previous researcher and the results of the study published . |
| 24 | By 1982 , then , when The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail appeared in print , the waters had already been disturbed by a fresh wave of material pertaining to the historical Jesus . |
| 25 | In the case of a company limited by shares , normally the only liability imposed on a shareholder as such will be to pay up the nominal value of the shares and any premium in so far as payment has not already been made by a previous holder . |
| 26 | The game had already been enlivened by a sumptuous Derrick Lee break-off scrum ball ( and a neat assist by Andrew Garry ) , therefore it was little co-incidence that the stand-off , who had enjoyed an adventurous afternoon , was instrumental in the first try . |
| 27 | The helpline has already been used by a number of worried officers . |
| 28 | Joe met a man he had sailed with , and he told him that a ship had already been sunk by a submarine . |
| 29 | To enable larger amounts of data to be handled , some hyper-text systems have already been augmented by a conventional relational data-base system as for example with the commercial system OWL [ 9 ] . |
| 30 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |