Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] by a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said .
2 The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW
3 They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote .
4 Construction work on the world 's largest hydroelectric project , in Northern Quebec , Canada , has been halted by a ruling from the National Energy Board that the project must comply with federal guidelines on the environment .
5 However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant .
6 Recent comment has been disfigured by a good deal of misinformation .
7 This has been explained by an increased number of transient sphincter relaxations after a meal .
8 The beautiful Alessandra ( above ) , a Euro MP and neo-Fascist , has been invited by a right-wing Tory pressure group .
9 I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out .
10 Perhaps a similar report has been written by a colleague and is retained on a word processing disk .
11 Letter signed ’ , as distinct from ‘ Autograph letter signed ’ , means that the letter has been written by a clerk or secretary but that the king has added his signature .
12 We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson .
13 Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit .
14 The Scottish Television script has been written by a former Daily Mirror editor , Mike Molloy , and a former People managing editor , Revel Barker .
15 There have been many situations where a farm has been lost by an unexpectedly early death or disability . ’
16 The presumption of innocence has not been toppled ; rather , it has been corroded by a series of laws on alcohol and tobacco , football hooliganism , drugs , videos and even badgers .
17 Its renaissance with the new wave of unemployment has been echoed by a new contest of concepts .
18 That encouraging development has been assisted by a wide range of measures undertaken by the Government .
19 In the past , the study of onomatopoeia , and of imitative effects generally , has been vitiated by a tendency to assume that there is a direct evocative connection between a particular sound and a particular reference , say between an /s/ sound and the sighing of the wind or ( here ) the hiss of a steam-engine .
20 Fuel bond AN ADDITIVE that bonds diesel fuel and water to create a solution that burns cleanly without loss of power has been developed by a team led by Prof David Thorley of City University .
21 Such underdrawing has now provided a significantly more accurate way of dating the famous palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and El Castillo , Spain , and Niaux in the French Pyrenees has been developed by a team of French and Spanish scientists .
22 Firstly , a National Aboriginal Health Strategy has been developed by a 19 member working party , 14 of whom were leading members of the Aboriginal community .
23 The scanning device has been developed by a company in Upton Bishop in Herefordshire .
24 The new artificial pancreas has been developed by an American company called Biohybrid Technologies , and the Harvard University Medical School .
25 It has long been recognised that the human factor is just as significant an influence on rates of erosion as physical features , as has been highlighted by a study of potential versus actual erosion in Zimbabwe by Whitlow ( 1988 ) .
26 That preference has been strengthened by an alarming rise in unemployment since last autumn .
27 The answer , according to Mr Michael Reich of the Harvard School of Public Health , is that the industry has been nurtured by an arm of the Japanese government that had no interest in exporting , making it a victim of government intervention .
28 expert has been appointed by an appointing authority .
29 Into the slope a valley has been cut by a little brook called the Selletbeck , which runs past the churchyard and on down to the River Lune .
30 The allocation for London in the current financial year 1991-92 has been cut by a further 8 per cent .
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