Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads . |
| 2 | Tom McCormack , senior depute director of the Highways Department , has taken part and the initiative has been well supported by all our staff . |
| 3 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 4 | Although the intensive system of subject assessment takes up a good deal of time , it has been well received by these two centres . |
| 5 | We all know about the crisis in agriculture which has been well described by many hon. Members . |
| 6 | The modern history of the Catholic Church has been immensely affected by that chain of events . |
| 7 | I do n't think this point has been properly understood by many people who have been given the impression that the films are a kind of expensive toy , when in fact you are the first conductor in history to use film as an integral extension of your work as an interpretative artist . |
| 8 | It is debatable whether a shareholder could proceed under ss.459–461 of the Companies Act 1985 , as amended by CA 1989 , alleging that a minority ( including himself ) has been unfairly prejudiced by those in control of the company , for their failure to call the insider to account to the company . |
| 9 | Our latest schools booklet has been enthusiastically received by many pupils and teachers . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , the agenda of the European Regional Association ( ERA-WACC ) has been largely influenced by these changes . |
| 11 | And although this is conjecture , I feel it should be mentioned , if only because the primal mother-child relationship so highly emphasised in post-Freudian psychoanalytic literature has been largely ignored by those who have written about anorexia nervosa . |
| 12 | The case for flexible budgets has been extensively argued by this writer elsewhere ( Cook , 1988 ; Cook & Perrin , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | During the last fifty years the church musician as a kind of freelance ‘ general practitioner ’ has been increasingly replaced by those who derive their livelihood more as school music teachers than from their appointment as parish organists . |
| 14 | When the problem of succession has to be solved , rules have to be formulated : charisma has to be routinized unless one charismatic leader has been successfully challenged by another . |
| 15 | This method has been successfully conducted by many researchers and is now a routine method in our laboratory . |
| 16 | A proposed EC directive which would make financial institutions partly liable for damage caused by companies in which they have invested has been sharply criticized by several banking organizations . |
| 17 | Surprise is , of course , unfair in one special circumstance : when a prediction has been specifically encouraged by those who deliberately defeat it . |
| 18 | The latest attacks has been roundly condemned by those campaigning against the clinic . |
| 19 | The method has been roundly critisized by many conservationists . |
| 20 | This apparently simplistic and attractive technique which has been readily espoused by many workers merits further attention . |
| 21 | In parts of Britain , particularly in parts of Wales , second home ownership has been fiercely contested by some locals , but it is hard to judge whether such opposition is justified . |
| 22 | The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 24 | On election of Benchers , my proposal of direct election by Inn members of even a minimum of new Benchers per year has been unanimously rejected by all Inns . |
| 25 | Congress , however , is going ahead with $4 billion a year air pollution controls , and the report has been virtually ignored by all major news organisations . |
| 26 | The reward is obvious for a crushingly poor country of 60m people which has been virtually embargoed by most of the non-communist world . |
| 27 | In Northern Ireland our work has been warmly received by both communities and their churches . |
| 28 | The passengers charter has been warmly welcomed by many of my Back-Bench colleagues many of whom are sitting behind me . |
| 29 | In Russia , on the other hand , commanders such as Rumyantsev and Suvorov had developed to a high pitch of effectiveness by the end of this period the more aggressive method of attack in column with the bayonet ( though the contrast between Russian and West European tactics has been greatly exaggerated by some Soviet historians ) . |
| 30 | The ambit of the Act has been further expanded by some of the decisions on it . |