Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adv] [vb pp] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINCE Raymond Fletcher and David Howes joined forces nine volumes ago the game has been well served statistically by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook , and the standard remains impressively high . |
| 2 | At least one crop of winter beans has been completely wiped out by chocolate spot , ADAS confirms . |
| 3 | This view , that the wars in Croatia and Bosnia are no concern of the 400,000-odd ethnic Hungarians in Yugoslavia , mostly concentrated in the Serbian province of Vojvodina , has been repeatedly expressed both by ethnic Hungarian organisations in Yugoslavia and by the Budapest government . |
| 4 | I did not choose to reprint it , but the material has been freely drawn on by others , sometimes in all but word for word form . |
| 5 | The naivety of Irish politicians in dealing with the foreign mining companies has been excellently summed up by O Faircheallaigh : Irish politicians ' ’ response … to this situation was to accept as valid the mining industry 's account of what it needed . |
| 6 | As a result the hierarchical structure of the state has been increasingly broken up by horizontal structures of working parties , ad hoc reviews , and above all , semi-autonomous government agencies ( see , e.g. Barker 1982 ) . |
| 7 | This has been overwhelmingly borne out by clinical psychoanalytic investigations of the id . |
| 8 | The second ground ( ’ knowing receipt and dealing ’ ) , has been neatly summed up by Bingham J : |
| 9 | The Labour Party course has been deliberately misrepresented both by the government and by much of the press . |
| 10 | Scotland 's position has been fully exposed recently by peers of both parties in the House of Lords where the Government , represented by Earl Howe , confirmed its determination to avoid causing ‘ unnecessary hardship ’ to the few part-time English drift-netters . |
| 11 | With the development of the form of recklessness found in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 ( HL ) , which applies in this area ( Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 ( HL ) ) there are now authorities to the effect that manslaughter by gross negligence has been totally swallowed up by reckless manslaughter : Kong Cheuk Kwan v R ( 1985 ) 82 Cr App R 18 ( PC ) and Goodfellow ( 1986 ) 83 Cr App R 23 ( CA ) . |
| 12 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 13 | Their statement that ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas ’ ( 1970/1846 : 64 ) has been much quoted both by Marxists and non-Marxists . |
| 14 | The challenge to increase membership has been imaginatively taken up by some groups . |
| 15 | A clear and detailed historical account of this event is given by Ammianus Marcellinus , who has always been accepted as one of the more reliable of the ancient historians , although it has been recently pointed out by Professor Malcolm Todd that Theodosius I was the patron of Marcellinus , who can hardly be blamed for enlarging on the achievements of the father of the Emperor . |
| 16 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 17 | As things stand , the existing evidence has been wildly over-interpreted both by Shepher and by others who have uncritically accepted his conclusions ( e.g. Lumsden & Wilson , 1981 ; van den Berghe , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Connery , 62 , still regarded as one of Hollywood 's biggest heart-throbs , has been quietly sounded out by MGM studio bosses . |
| 19 | And now it 's been lovingly found again by the management of the hotel to welcome him . |