Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been drive [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’ |
| 2 | She thinks photography has been driven into an isolationist role : how right she is . |
| 3 | Published work on screening for osteoporosis is based largely on experience in the United States , where widespread growth of screening has been driven by commercial factors and not by public health policy . |
| 4 | Tanya Probyn 's car had been driven along a lane at Stonebench in Gloucestershire before reaching the River Severn . |
| 5 | Apollinaris survived for only a few months , and on his death Theuderic had Quintianus installed as bishop , apparently on the grounds that the saint had been driven from Rodez because of his loyalty to the Frankish king . |
| 6 | And then we have the third issue which is site selection and here they are at one with the local communities when they say this particular er selected site has been driven by economic consideration and not environmental consideration . |
| 7 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 8 | Simulator development has been driven by technology rather than by the behavioural sciences with the standard result that there is a high reliance on face validity with relatively little resource devoted to systematic evaluation . |
| 9 | Paul Trowbridge , UK marketing manager with SynOptics Communications Inc , said that he can understand Proteon 's viewpoint , and believes that APPI development has been driven by the financing questions surrounding APPN . |
| 10 | Whatever had been on its prow was now gone , sheared off when the sleek vessel had been driven among the trees . |
| 11 | When he 'd first been taken poorly , Baby had been driven in an ambulance from one hospital to another . |
| 12 | Now , in these latter sixteenth-century days , Knollys 's shipyard had been driven to the building of more modest ships , and confined itself mainly to boats no larger than forty or fifty tons — small merchantmen for the most part , which sailed for their owners to Italy and Spain with cargoes of wool , tin and salt fish . |
| 13 | The Major had told us that he was plagued with poachers , particularly since the new road had been driven up the hill from the Aberfeldy side ; and that he very much doubted if there were any fish left in Loch a'Chait . |
| 14 | Similarly , much recent analysis of the impact of technical change on labour relations has been concerned to show how technical innovation has been driven by the need of employers to ‘ deskill ’ the workforce in order to control the ‘ workprocess ’ and extract the maximum rate of profit from labour [ Friedman , 1977 ] . |
| 15 | Mr Rowland 's bitter campaign of vengeance has been driven by that affront . |
| 16 | His own family had been driven by starvation to emigrate to America . |