Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] by the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a counterfeit of the spirit that goes on daily , you see , made worse because it has been joined by the visual counterfeit possible in television . |
| 2 | The displacement values are given by the two corresponding coordinate variations generated by the rotation of the circular cam on PARTA . |
| 3 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 4 | The biodiversity convention signed at the summit has been ratified by the required 30 countries and is due to come into force at the end of this year . |
| 5 | Amendments to the Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer that were agreed in London in 1990 have finally been ratified by the required 20 countries and will come into force in August . |
| 6 | There are currently 18 members , who are joined by the four senior staff of Lending Services . |
| 7 | ‘ After his pneumonia had been diagnosed by the Senior Surgical Officer the diagnosis was confirmed at Mr Leland 's request by the Senior Medical Officer , ’ Sister added , then broke off to explain to the night junior , a second-year , that this was routine hospital etiquette when a surgical patient produced a medical complaint , or vice versa . |
| 8 | But all of the most powerful posts — economy , foreign affairs , defence , interior , justice , education — are filled by the same old faces . |
| 9 | News that the region has backed plans to create purchasing consortiums has been criticized by the British Medical Association . |
| 10 | The inadequacy of this approach has been highlighted by the general economic recession and energy crisis of the 1970's ; it has also had far less impact in the disadvantaged rural areas ( DRAs ) . |
| 11 | The blond Australian has been plagued by the worst possible luck over the years . |
| 12 | There were 170,000 refugees in Croatia with an estimated additional 10,000 unregistered in the republic , and 35,000 in the Serbian area of Krajina , who , according to the Yugoslav Red Cross , had not been registered by the Croatian Red Cross . |
| 13 | The Czechs were , like the Muscovites before them , primarily linguists , and they did not significantly alter the basic groundwork of Formalist literary theory as it had been developed by the late 1920s . |
| 14 | A NEW technique to enable men with irreversible vasectomies to become fathers has been developed by the Surgical Advisory Service , a private London infertility clinic . |
| 15 | The award has been developed by the Scottish Industrial Liaison Committee for Greenkeeper Training . |
| 16 | Staff development workshops for those delivering general SVQs have been developed by the Scottish Further Education Unit . |
| 17 | The great grandchildren of those who had been gulled by the infantile speculative ventures on offer during the manic South Sea Bubble phenomenon had obviously been conditioned to react in the same wild way . |
| 18 | If they are different parts of speech , they are distinguished by the italic part-of-speech label that follows the pronunciation in parentheses , or , if no pronunciation is given , the headword itself . |
| 19 | The four tower galleries , which are not uniformly successful in their proportions but which are distinguished by the soft ambient lighting concealed within the beautiful ribbed vaults ( there is no natural light ) , will contain masterpieces of European and American art arranged floor by floor in a broadly chronological progression from Delaunay and Chagall through Mondrian and Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art . |
| 20 | Inspection of Figure 7.2 should make it quite clear how the neoclassical synthesis has been modified by the new classical writers . |
| 21 | This was part of a huge complex of buildings that had been owned by the Bulgarian Communist Party . |
| 22 | Since 1988 , Brooks Brothers has been owned by the respected British operator of clothing and food outlets , Marks & Spencer . |
| 23 | Easily Accessible : There are numerous pretty villages to visit in the area and all are surrounded by the lovely unspoilt countryside . |
| 24 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 25 | The Kodak Pro Prize for advertising photography has been won by the young Dutch photographer , Rineke Dijkstra , working for agency DAV studio . |
| 26 | It would hence require 1000 times as much food and would excrete 1000 times as much waste products , as we are reminded by the distinguished early twentieth-century biologist J.B.S. Haldane in his famous work On Being the Right Size . |
| 27 | At a press conference the Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , agreed that it was likely that the surveillance equipment had been installed by the former Soviet authorities , but he insisted that it was Russia 's responsibility , as the successor state , to remove them . |
| 28 | It certainly seems to be the case that many of those who opt to pay for their children 's education are attracted by the narrow social intake of most private schools . |
| 29 | Widespread arrests of alleged PFLP activists by the Israeli police and security services " in recent months " had been reported by the Israeli military authorities on Sept. 26 . |
| 30 | A presidential order concerning the maintenance of public order and severe punishment for offenders had been reported by the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party newspaper Unen on April 3 . |