Example sentences of "have been [verb] by [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the poverty of older people has been recognised by both official and independent research for over 100 years . |
| 2 | Although the rate of growth has fallen since the oil crises of the 1970s , Japan 's productivity advantage has been magnified by very low rates of increase in unit labour costs . |
| 3 | Since last autumn , the British government has been lobbied by increasingly frantic waste-paper merchants and plastics recyclers protesting that their markets are being destroyed by the backwash of German rubbish . |
| 4 | ‘ Taken at face value individual companies would have us believe that their particular stance has been determined by purely altruistic considerations , such as meeting customer demand , protecting staff or defending religious principles . |
| 5 | The fee has been cut by approximately half , from £20,000 to £10,000 . |
| 6 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
| 7 | Those who previously qualified for the former , therefore , have lost out substantially , as their sickness pay has been cut by almost 20 per cent . |
| 8 | Traditionally , ostertagiasis has been prevented by routinely treating young cattle with anthelmintics over the period when pasture larval levels are increasing . |
| 9 | This has been done by both the BBC and the " Sunday Times " . |
| 10 | A £15m scheme to upgrade the A1 between Bramham and Wetherby has been extended by nearly 1km at a cost of £1m to allow traffic to move freely by widening more of the southbound carriageway to Spen Common Lane . |
| 11 | It is clear that the basic text file has been increased by around 150 per cent in order to provide the retrieval capabilities offered by the package . |
| 12 | This campaign has been supported by both Alder Valley and Southdown bus companies . |
| 13 | High-cost oversupply has been compounded by extremely low demand . |
| 14 | Mancini himself is clear that there was long-standing rivalry between the duke and the queen 's family , and this has been accepted by almost every subsequent writer . |
| 15 | Mancini himself is clear that there was long-standing rivalry between the duke and the queen 's family , and this has been accepted by almost every subsequent writer . |
| 16 | People will not give up lightly what they have gained under this Government , and they will not easily embrace a creed that has been rejected by so many nations in recent years . |
| 17 | The poll tax ( a.k.a. the community charge ) has been discredited by almost all politicians , even Darlington 's Conservative MP Michael Fallon , but for administrative and bureaucratic reasons it lumbers into its third year this April . |
| 18 | Utility player John Moore has been hit by yet another injury blow . |
| 19 | In the UK the brands portfolio has been affected by exceptionally severe market conditions , aggravated by a further increase in excise duty on spirits in 1992 . |
| 20 | The rules are still valid and the libretto of any ballet neglecting them often fails to hold the attention of its audience because the content has been weakened by too many irrelevances . |
| 21 | He believes that the United States has been destroyed by morally subversive elements ( such as Sigmund Freud , Franklin Delano Roosevelt and , of course , Elvis Presley ) , and he also claims that the government ‘ ruint ’ him by interfering in his coal-mining business . |
| 22 | Puzzlement outside the country has been matched by even greater anxiety within it . |
| 23 | However , he omitted to mention that the agreement ( drawn up in secret in 1990 ) has been ratified by only three of the 12 EC countries and is therefore not in force . |
| 24 | Population redistribution over the past quarter of a century has been characterized by unprecedentedly large inter-urban flows in contrast to the dominance of relatively local rural-urban and suburban moves in previous decades . |
| 25 | Family planning as promoted in El Salvador has been characterized by very aggressive marketing and it is more than apparent that both the medical profession and women are subjected to unethical pressures . |
| 26 | They 've juggled to entertain at college balls and parties this summer , but for their latest production , their first in a theatre , for safety fire has been replaced by ultra violet light . |
| 27 | This is because it has been replaced by more suitable roads which have been adapted to the continually changing pattern of communications and settlement development . |
| 28 | Lighting can create atmosphere as well as fulfilling a practical purpose and in many dwellings the fluorescent strip has been replaced by more subtle means of ceiling and wall lighting . |
| 29 | The little battler , whom doctors feared might never see his first birthday , has been beset by almost continuous infections and his condition has worsened . |
| 30 | I I I mean I know the point which has been pursued by before . |