Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest implementation , X Window Version 11 Release 3 , emerged a year ago , and has been widely adopted by Unix suppliers and by DEC , with Unix ( Ultrix ) and VAX VMS versions . |
| 2 | The result had been widely predicted by opinion polls which showed that the Labour Party ( in government since 1984 ) had lost the confidence of the electorate . |
| 3 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 4 | Although covered by thick Tertiary basalts and Lough Neagh Clay , its western margin has been successfully mapped by reconnaissance Vibroseis . |
| 5 | He was entitled , I supposed , to his small exploratory excursion around my character ; and if he himself , I thought , had been wholly fulfilled by uniform , he would still be in it . |
| 6 | To make matters worse , the monopolistic character of the sector has been blatantly exploited by trade unions , though over the longer run this has probably resulted in major job losses since most of the industries are subject to competition in the form of alternative goods . |
| 7 | It would have been mostly done by hand . |
| 8 | Prior to the meeting , a delegation of Amazon Indians visited Dayak communities in Sarawak whose land had been badly affected by logging . |
| 9 | In recent years , the tribe has been badly affected by malaria , measles and other diseases brought in by prospecting miners , and by inroads into their traditional forest lands . |
| 10 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 11 | The money raised by the event will help to rebuild the Children 's Hospital in Osijek , which has been badly damaged by shellfire . |
| 12 | The fact is your house has been badly damaged by fire . ’ |
| 13 | A block of residential flats at Elsfield near Oxford has been badly damaged by fire . |
| 14 | His throat had been badly scarred by praxis gas during a bankruptcy action three years ago , and his words came out sounding like fingernails scratching glass . |
| 15 | ( This system has , however , been effectively outflanked by satellite — see below . ) |
| 16 | However the balance has been somewhat redressed by recruitment to the BA courses and by in-service courses for qualified teachers which in 1982 raised its student numbers to about 385 . |
| 17 | Libya had a wealthier , more urbanized , more stably employed population than any of them and , by every canon of development science , Libyans ought to have been less influenced by atavism than other North Africans . |
| 18 | Turnover from this region grew 260% to £1.3m , because , Turner says , it seems to have been less affected by recession than other parts of Europe , and a lot of multinationals are based there . |
| 19 | Our data might have been less affected by bias than those in other studies because we considered only women in whom the primary diagnosis was endometriosis . |
| 20 | In some respects the stockman has been less affected by mechanization , although this depends upon which type of worker we are considering . |
| 21 | But would n't cricket have been better served by frankness from the outset and an early investigation of suspicions concerning Pakistan ? |
| 22 | Environmentalists fear that the programme is designed to conceal a retreat from a campaign pledge made by President Clinton to increase average fuel efficiency required by law to 40 mpg by 2000 and 45 mpg by 2015 , which has been fiercely resisted by car companies . |
| 23 | Officials said every couple had been personally matched by Moon using photos and a computer . |
| 24 | In each of these appeals it has been rightly accepted by counsel for the contemnor that the hearing below of the committal application was impeccable , that the sentence imposed for the contempts of court found proved can not be criticised and the committal order properly specified each of the contempts for which the contemnor had been sentenced . |
| 25 | When this square building was excavated in 1925–6 , it was found to have been much reduced by stone robbing and only the south-west corner of masonry had survived . |
| 26 | The staircase was ornamented at intervals with classical figures , chastely draped , and there was still a sweet primness in the graceful propriety of their attitudes though some were lacking a hand or an arm and others had had their noses rot away or even been entirely decapitated by exposure to the elements , and all were soot-stained and weather-beaten . |
| 27 | According to a report by the Japanese news agency Kyodo on Sept. 27 these had recently been brutally suppressed by government troops who had killed at least 327 demonstrators ; this claim was firmly denied by the Bhutanese government , however . |
| 28 | If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention . |
| 29 | Where the summons has been so sent by post and returned to the court office undelivered , notice of non-service ( N 216 ) is sent to the plaintiff saying that he may request bailiff service . |
| 30 | Already their numbers had been so diminished by persecution and by unfavourable trading terms in Henry III 's reign that the tallage which they paid annually to the king was less under Edward I than he might gain by seizing their estates and inducing a clerical subsidy by their expulsion . |