Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 2 | Although the positioning of players seems wrong and choice of instruments has presumably been dictated by the need for variety in a tiny space ( the original is quite small ) much remains plausible . |
| 3 | This view has rarely been developed by Freud 's critics . |
| 4 | There has tended to be an increase in confidence within IIAs , although this has rarely been matched by increasing private-sector investment . |
| 5 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 6 | This experimental solution has since been confirmed by a purely mathematical analysis carried out by H. L. Cox . |
| 7 | The point has since been confirmed by the House of Lords . |
| 8 | Morocco immediately occupied the area and has since been harassed by Polisario guerrillas on a broad front in Western Sahara and also inside Morocco proper . |
| 9 | A President and a Council of Ministers were installed , but effective political power has since been exercised by the leadership of the sole legal political organization , the Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) . |
| 10 | It has since been followed by D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles ' The Media Centre and Collett Dickenson Pearce 's CDP Media . |
| 11 | Even during the All Black tour of South Africa Ant Strachan , the surprise-packet of an All Black halfback this year , realised he was not likely to displace Jason Hewett , the World Cup no.2 halfback who has since been rejected by Mains and his selectors , from the Auckland position . |
| 12 | The main Commonwealth case from a country with a common law jurisdiction is Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 , a decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in an appellate capacity which has since been accepted by other appellate courts in Australia as a correct statement of the law , that is to say the common law of Australia . |
| 13 | Sovereignty over the strategically important peninsula of Gibraltar was granted to the United Kingdom by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht but this has since been disputed by Spain . |
| 14 | This view has since been supported by six other American states . |
| 15 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 16 | Although some progress has since been made by the meticulous work of the late Sir Ian Richmond and Roger Goodburn , it has been on too small a scale to support any attempt at a chronology of the history of the site . |
| 17 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 18 | He has since been sacked by Nalgo and has debts of £10,000 . |
| 19 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 20 | 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. ) |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mark has since been accused by New Zealand teacher Heather Tonkin of being the father of her six-year-old daughter , though he has denied paternity . |
| 24 | Their map has since been superseded by photographic atlases . |
| 25 | The t table has since been superseded by the fatter chips and bigger bytes of modern computing ; the pop-up menus of today 's statistical packages tempt the unwary with an appetising range of p values hardly imaginable in 1965 . |
| 26 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 27 | This has since been complemented by a Co-op super-store with 40 000 sq . |
| 28 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 29 | and has since been paid by Col. Roberts . |
| 30 | He has since been praised by managers at his new job with Smith 's Dry Cleaners for his honesty . |