Example sentences of "it [verb] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 2 | Increasingly it has been challenged by a rival account which might be called a ‘ teleology of the oppressed ’ . |
| 3 | And I often say that young ladies who are looking over their shoulder like this , you 've got ta be careful of the neck because when they turn round and look over their shoulder you get creases in the neck , and there is a slight crease in the neck there but most of it has been disguised by covering it with her hair , so look out for that when you have a young lady , or anybody , looking over their shoulder , particularly with young ladies , when they look over their shoulder like that it does cause creases in the side of the neck which can be unsightly . |
| 4 | To date , it has been implemented by Ireland , the UK , Denmark , Portugal , Spain and Italy . |
| 5 | It has been noticed by others that the type of arguments which count against the Freudian type of verstehende psychology would also count against much sociology . |
| 6 | It has been created by Sister Frances Therese at the Carmelite convent , Darlington . |
| 7 | There are special toothpastes which are not harmful if swallowed , and brushing your dog 's teeth is actually very easy once it has been demonstrated by a vet . |
| 8 | While it has been demonstrated by the work of Piaget and others that , at primary school age , children 's understanding functions at the concrete operational stage , more recent research in primary history has tended to suggest that children 's " historical " thinking can be developed and encouraged by certain teaching techniques . |
| 9 | But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts : it is in the south-east and in the services sector . |
| 10 | It has been assumed by some writers that statements of attainment should be adapted for children with learning difficulties by producing more detailed learning hierarchies than the statutory orders provide . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been assumed by many that this will lead to a system of ‘ educational inheritance ’ directly comparable to that observed in capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , pp. 231–2 ) . |
| 12 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 13 | It has been noted by sociologists that in urban settings there is a ‘ norm of civil inattention ’ whereby unacquainted people typically refrain from approaching and addressing one another in public . |
| 14 | There can be little doubt , however , that geomorphology within physical geography needs to overcome its unnatural reluctance to become familiar with the principles underlying landscape processes because this will not necessarily prejudice the retention of a meso-scale approach and it has been achieved by sedimentology ( e.g. Allen , 1970 ) and by soil science . |
| 15 | 35 , 40 , it is recommended that such a promise as that to which I have referred , should be enforceable in law even though no consideration for it has been given by the promisee . |
| 16 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 17 | It has been characterised by dictatorship , lack of respect for human rights and corruption . |
| 18 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 19 | With a total budget of almost £2 million , it has been funded by the Corporation of London , the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen and commercial sponsorship from companies such as Den Danske Bank and Scandic Crown Hotels UK . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It has been written by Dr Iain G. Brown , as Assistant Keeper in the Library 's Manuscripts Division , who also researched the exhibition . |
| 24 | Financial support between relatives has one feature which is not shared by other types of support , namely that it has been regulated by the law . |
| 25 | It has been strengthened by the continued attention paid by the Americans to their own arid regions and , in later years , by the general increase of research in Africa . |
| 26 | San Jose-based Maxoptix Corp , joint venture of Maxtor Corp and Kubota Corp , reports that the European Computer Manufacturers Association has formally endorsed the Maxoptix 1Gb zoned constant angular velocity magneto-optical disk format as ECMA Standard £183 and that it has been accepted by the International Standards Organisation for its Fast Track procedure as a Draft International Standard ; the spec is an extension of the 650Mb standard . |
| 27 | However , since it has been obtained by a real transformation followed by an Ehlers transformation , as described at the end of Section 12.2 it is essentially simply a rotation and rescaling of the Szekeres solutions . |
| 28 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 29 | But it is a useful conception ; and it has been applied by Statute to some public officers , such as certain Ministers and the Official Solicitor . |
| 30 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |