Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 2 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 3 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 4 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 5 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 6 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There have also been a number of memorable failures in this country , and having been caught out by one myself , I do n't believe we are too well-placed to criticise the failings of others . |
| 9 | Coun Richmond asked councillors to vote for more talks with the disabled who he felt had been let down by late changes to the scheme . |
| 10 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 11 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 13 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
| 14 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 15 | Policing issues are never long out of the headlines ( Chibnall 1977 ) , and this media obsession has been transmitted into a wealth of analyses of policing — which have mostly been carried out by outside observers . |
| 16 | There are also clear indications that although the assassinations may have been carried out by low-ranking army officers the orders came from the military high command . |
| 17 | It appeared that the attack had been carried out by extremist forces not under the control of JNA commanders . |
| 18 | On June 26 the Commissioner of Police , Gen. Johan van der Merwe , said that the police had information that the Boipatong attack had indeed been carried out by 200-300 residents of the nearby Inkatha-controlled hostel . |
| 19 | Anonymous telephone calls claimed the attack had been carried out by various groups , including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah , in revenge for Israel 's assassination of the Hezbollah secretary-general Sheikh Abbas Musawi in February [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 20 | A search like this has been carried out by two scientists from Dublin , Neil Porter and Trevor Weekes , using telescopes in Arizona . |
| 21 | Atrocities were also reported to have been carried out by two militias accompanying the Syrian troops , pro-Syrian Phalangists led by Elie Hobeika , and the Syrian National Socialist Party . |
| 22 | Programming work has been carried out by one-third of SERC students were/would be doing . |
| 23 | Despite claims that most of the fighting around the town had been carried out by Sihanoukist forces , Western commentators saw the offensive as the work of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 24 | Shaping the garnet could have been carried out by three methods ( Arrhenius 1971 ) . |
| 25 | The UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group ( UNIIMOG ) , with responsibility for maintaining the truce , reported on March 8 , 1989 , that five Iranian soldiers had been shot in the back and killed in an ambush on Feb. 17 , although it did not confirm an Iranian claim that the ambush had been carried out by Iraqi forces . |
| 26 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |
| 27 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 28 | British infancy research has a well-established National , European and International reputation , and this has been built up by many eminent researchers working separately at their different institutions . |
| 29 | The move , effective from April , created furore at Westminster as Labour MPs complained the measure had almost no support in Scotland and had been pushed through by English Tory MPs . |
| 30 | Using the tip of your index finger , spread the bead of silicone which has been pushed out by adjoining panels into a rounded seal ( see diagram six ) around the base and up the vertical joints . |