Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since 1973 the threshold of what amounts to dominance has been widened by a series of European Court decisions and the Court has also interpreted abuse less strictly . |
| 32 | Tranmere striker Tommy Coyne has been sidelined by a flu bug , but Charlton remains optimistic that he can shrug off the effects in time for Wednesday . |
| 33 | For this reason the history of discussion between theists and atheists about the existence of God has been characterised by a great deal of mutual misunderstanding . |
| 34 | The mid-1980s has been characterised by a shift in emphasis in the educational debate . |
| 35 | The point has been well put by Vivien Hart in comparing American and British approaches : " In America , " she wrote , " the emphasis has been on what democracy is and should be , while Britain has been characterised by a more pragmatic and less urgent emphasis on what democracy is and can be . " |
| 36 | Its replacement fibreglass torso has been manufactured by a German robotics company . |
| 37 | At a stroke our artistic patrimony has been increased by a treasure which is about to go on display after being unseen for seventy years . |
| 38 | For my purposes , it suffices if I say that one of the questions was whether an original lessee is liable to pay a rent which has been increased by a variation in the terms of the lease reached between the assignee and the landlord . |
| 39 | The risk of flooding has been increased by a combination of factors . |
| 40 | The desirability of continued economic growth has been raised by a number of economists over the past decade and the titles of their publications make their conclusions clear — Does Money Buy Happiness ? |
| 41 | The importance of environmental issues has been raised by a series of articles in Chartered Builder . |
| 42 | MORE than £300 has been raised by a group of Barlaston employees and friends in a sponsored walk for the British Epilepsy Association . |
| 43 | For a country which has been disabled by a generation of violence , forgetting may be impossible . |
| 44 | This loss of full participation as a consumer has been reinforced by a whole series of changes limiting eligibility to the national insurance unemployment benefit . |
| 45 | A point has been made by a sudden ( if barely perceptible ) breaking of pattern , an absence of echoes . |
| 46 | Another very successful collection of my pictures has been made by a lady who is very keen on yellow roses . |
| 47 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 48 | The first claim insists that once a crisp decision has been made by a body sanctioned by convention , and the content of that decision is fixed by conventions about how such decisions should be understood , judges must respect that decision , even if they think a different one would have been fairer or wiser . |
| 49 | One BGS officer is in post and he has been supported by a consultant editor . |
| 50 | His call for the establishment of a working relationship with environmentalists has been supported by a Fisheries Ministry spokesman . |
| 51 | It has been supported by a number of outside bodies previously , but the Authority were not able to find it from their base allocation this year in order to continue . |
| 52 | It is therefore interesting to discover that something as basic as fashion in furniture has been altered by a single cold winter . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | This year , however , Britain has been faced by a tyrant much closer to home . |
| 55 | It will be available after 1997 and is essentially a travel document whose validity has been questioned by a number of countries . |
| 56 | Critics also argue that this has been compounded by a policy which has unfairly favoured the private sector in preference to the public sector . |
| 57 | However , in many of the developed countries in which age at entrance into legal marriage has been rising , later marriage has been counterbalanced by a tendency for increasing proportions of women to establish consensual unions , and at increasingly earlier ages . |
| 58 | If the design has been generated by a computer in circumstances where there is no human author , the person making the arrangements is treated as the proprietor of the design . |
| 59 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 60 | Yates , 25 later this month , has been tracked by a number of top clubs , including both Liverpool and Spurs , but manager Neil Warnock yesterday admitted : ‘ His injury is not responding as well or as quickly as we had thought . |