Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Recent comment has been disfigured by a good deal of misinformation . |
| 5 | The beautiful Alessandra ( above ) , a Euro MP and neo-Fascist , has been invited by a right-wing Tory pressure group . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps a similar report has been written by a colleague and is retained on a word processing disk . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Scottish Television script has been written by a former Daily Mirror editor , Mike Molloy , and a former People managing editor , Revel Barker . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Its renaissance with the new wave of unemployment has been echoed by a new contest of concepts . |
| 14 | That encouraging development has been assisted by a wide range of measures undertaken by the Government . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The scanning device has been developed by a company in Upton Bishop in Herefordshire . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The allocation for London in the current financial year 1991-92 has been cut by a further 8 per cent . |
| 23 | A SENTENCE for indecent assault passed on a 47-year-old former prison officer has been cut by a half on appeal at Craigavon Crown Court . |
| 24 | This notion has been adopted by a number of animal learning theorists ( e.g. Spear 1973 , 1981 ; Hirsh 1980 ) . |
| 25 | One corporate-centred bargaining strategy in the form of ‘ coalition ’ bargaining has been adopted by a number of US unions since the 1960s . |
| 26 | Once a positive vote has been recorded by a designated estate , the Secretary of State appoints a board of between seven and thirteen members to manage its affairs . |
| 27 | and that has been done by a marketing exec who goes round the country contracting with those clients . |
| 28 | Is not my hon. Friend a little surprised that the Opposition seek to raise that point , given that the 1990 Act and other measures demonstrate that every major environmental initiative this century has been implemented by a Conservative Government ? |
| 29 | Braverman 's radical analysis of work organisation at the operational level has been extended by a number of writers concerned to explore its implications for these wider organisational issues . |
| 30 | As a result of Pepper v. Hart , this rather artificial notion has been extended by a presumption , which may be grounded in a degree of political reality . |