Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [vb pp] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sport has been called by many , including such opposing writers as Robert Boyle ( 1963 ) and Paul Hoch ( 1972 ) , a ‘ mirror ’ reflecting , in often exaggerated ways , aspects of social life . |
| 32 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 33 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 34 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 35 | An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man . |
| 36 | Experiments aimed at investigating this issue have been reported by many workers ( e.g. Anderson , O'Farrell , Formica , and Caponigri 1969 ; Anderson , Wolf , and Sullivan 1969 ; Dexter and Merrill 1969 ; Bouton and Bolles 1979 ; Lovibond et al . |
| 37 | The Second World War has been seen by some as a kind of watershed , with the post-war period being morally inferior to the ‘ full rich back street life and culture of pre-war England ’ . |
| 38 | Prenatal diagnosis , however , has been performed on the fetus of the aunt of one boy , and genetic counselling has been requested by several other members of the extended families . |
| 39 | That point has been made by many business organisations . |
| 40 | Relatively little attention has been paid by any of the sources , however , to the early development of the hierarchy , that is , in the period to the death of Suleyman ( 974/1566 ) , a fact which , coupled with the striking , not to say hypnotizing , effect of the later hierarchy , has tended in a variety of ways to mislead writers on subjects connected with the ulema . |
| 41 | David Noble ( 1977 ) takes this argument a stage further and argues not just that the use , but also the design , of the CNC machine tool has been influenced by these management control considerations . |
| 42 | Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems . |
| 43 | The management has been restructured and refocused with responsibilities clearly defined , the annual cost base of the business has been reduced by some £280,000 , and marketing plans are currently being put in place for next year . |
| 44 | There is mounting suspicion , too , that Britain 's market in cars , car parts and servicing has been poisoned by this system . |
| 45 | He did not take long in drinking his tea but by the time he had finished it , he saw that she was no longer at the counter , her place having been taken by another girl . |
| 46 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 47 | The whole place had been updated by some 25 years , with BR rectangular ‘ modern image ’ signs in white with black , mainly lower case lettering bearing the name ‘ New Cross ’ . |
| 48 | His attention had been taken by another notice outside the Town Hall . |
| 49 | The Geneva Conference had been attended by many SE Asia countries who wished to see a split Vietnam . |
| 50 | She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character . |
| 51 | His body had been damaged by some long distant war . |
| 52 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 53 | No such punishment had been confirmed by any Home Secretary since June 1962 , and it had been used only sparingly before that . |
| 54 | ‘ The divine right of kings does n't mean you can pinch my soap , ’ Fairbrother had snarled , and the three other boys in the wash room had been electrified by such dazzling insolence . |
| 55 | The source at the magazine confirmed later : ‘ Paris Match has been approached and pictures of that nature have been seen by some members of staff . |
| 56 | Again , details of maintenance responsibilities will be required and the proportion in which the costs of upkeep have been shared by those entitled . |
| 57 | Thus the teaching of certain forms of knowledge has been regarded by some as intrinsically worthwhile ; whilst others have regarded certain principles of procedure , such as enquiry-discovery learning , in much the same way . |
| 58 | This notion has been challenged by all manner of grassroots organisations , often as part of their struggle for political emancipation . |
| 59 | As far as we are aware , at present , this title has been agreed by all interested parties . |
| 60 | The importance of colour in the water has been emphasised by many successful zander men and I for one rate it as of paramount importance for daytime zandering . |