Example sentences of "[been] accompanied by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The 1984 St Leger was classic Piggott in more ways than one , for the run-up to the race had been accompanied by a typical controversy over whether he had filched the big-race ride from a fellow jockey . |
2 | President Reagan 's Strategic Defense Initiative , announced in 1983 , has always been accompanied by a strong element of criticism of existing US nuclear policy , but it may turn out to be a good deal less than the promised means of freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weaponry . |
3 | This dramatic reduction has been accompanied by a major change in course provision ; during recent years , the three-year Certificate of Education course , followed for a minority of students by a fourth year leading to a Bachelor of Education degree , has been completely replaced by integrated three- and four-year courses leading to ordinary and honours BEd degrees respectively . |
4 | Developments in police-control techniques have been accompanied by a major extension of police powers which encourage their intervention , not only on marches , at demonstrations and mass pickets , but in the everyday affairs of the community . |
5 | War between Japan and the nations of the West had been accompanied by a partial rejection of Western cultural influences . |
6 | SIR — The history of resistance to antimalarial drugs has been accompanied by a parallel move of resistance of some researchers to admit that it may be so . |
7 | The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics . |
8 | The technological innovations which have developed as a result of society 's need to adapt to new conditions have been accompanied by a new epistemology . |
9 | One of the most unambiguous demonstrations of this comes from New Guinea where the virtual abolition of tribal warfare achieved by relatively recent European rule has been accompanied by a marked increase in the incidence of sorcery accusations . |
10 | Distortions and rigidities in the labour market have meant that rising unemployment has not been accompanied by a matching fall in wage rates . |
11 | As usual he had been accompanied by a beautiful woman . |
12 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
13 | His walks through the streets of Rome must have been accompanied by a constant sensation of deja vu . |
14 | But the quantitative explosion in the feral dog population in Italy has been accompanied by a qualitative change . |
15 | At the same time this has been accompanied by a determined push by the German authorities through the EC institutions to impose a Community-wide statutory minimum wage to counter the high wage costs of West Germany . |
16 | Every change in local government finance , whether by revaluation or the introduction of the community charge , has been accompanied by a large element of extravagance by many local authorities . |