Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions . |
| 2 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 3 | A number of people who have been singled out by Mrs Whitehouse as playing particularly crucial roles in the process of supposedly ‘ permissive change ’ have already been mentioned . |
| 4 | He is particularly interested in the various features of childhood experiences that have been singled out by different theorists as the important determinants of adult personality : feeding regimes , toilet training , parental warmth , permissiveness and so on . |
| 5 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 6 | And although there is less new material to play on your deck , second-hand shops are bulging with whole collections that have been turfed out by over-zealous digital converts . |
| 7 | The new system , however , will be able to collect this tax and tax codes have been sent out by the tax office . |
| 8 | Over the last eight years , 27,000 quotations , on average , have been sent in by outside contributors each year . |
| 9 | Its twin ponds , of some 3.5 acres , have been built over by the ‘ bus station and local shops . |
| 10 | For many reasons they often lack the superficial selfconfidence of men , especially if they have been tied up by domesticity for years . |
| 11 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 12 | Hundreds of thousands of acres have been swallowed up by developers since ( 1985 ) nineteen eighty five . |
| 13 | The latest straws in the wind have been blown in by the bank 's disposal of its merchant banking arm , Charterhouse , last week for £235 million . |
| 14 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 15 | The CCDP argues that the known side-effects of the drug , medroxyprogesterone , have been played down by Upjohn and the medical experts it has called . |
| 16 | In Soviet eyes , these Leninist-Clausewitzian precepts have been born out by experience . |
| 17 | But if infections and other possible causes ( such as cystic fibrosis ) have been ruled out by your doctor , then you should consider the possible role of food . |
| 18 | Historical documentation in this field becomes more scarce as the emphasis moves towards other aspects of social organization , despite the highly influential work of the French historian Braudel , whose books ( e.g. 1981 ) include lengthy accounts of patterns of consumption in food , textiles and housing , which have been followed up by the Annales school of historians ( see also Elias 1978 ; Sombart 1967 for alternative traditions ) . |
| 19 | I am an accountant , I have been called in by the bank , and my duty is to the bank . |
| 20 | The popular ‘ explanation ’ for these pitiful remains is that the hedgehogs have been run over by motor cars . |
| 21 | The numbers above have been made up by multiplying together their basic parts or prime factors . |
| 22 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 23 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 24 | Most British governments have been worn down by failures ( particularly economic ) , scandals , lack of purpose , and electoral boredom . |
| 25 | The Springfield playing fields have been ploughed up by cars driving on them , horses cantering and people playing golf . |
| 26 | Proposals for bilateral agreements , put forward by both these countries , have been turned down by the UK Department of the Environment on the grounds that Britain , along with other European Community countries , is aiming to achieve self-sufficiency in waste disposal . |
| 27 | PLANS to convert a house in Palace Avenue , Rhyl , into separate flats have been turned down by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 28 | Once people have been diagnosed as suffering from food poisoning , or have been struck down by viral infactions and diseases caused by doubtful practices , it is necessary for somebody to step in and legislate for the industry . |
| 29 | Networks of neighbours have been broken up by rehousing . |
| 30 | Networks of neighbours have been broken up by rehousing . |