Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have [been] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as with education , the impact of change has been limited by a lack of a corresponding expansion of the job market . |
| 2 | Slovo 's publication of a draft policy programme Has socialism failed ? , revising the former hardline SACP stance to espouse multiparty democracy , received considerable attention , particularly in view of the close alliance between the SACP and the ANC , and the extent to which the threat of communism had been accentuated by the South African regime in its attitude to the ANC in the past . |
| 3 | A vigorous critique of utilitarianism has been offered by Bernard Williams who refers to it as ‘ distinctive way of looking at human action and morality . ’ |
| 4 | The wider field of responsibility has been rewarded by a variety of means . |
| 5 | British Waterways and the Ministry of Agriculture have been approached by fishing clubs in the region to help rid them of the menace which is depleting fish stocks in the canal . |
| 6 | The final act of the winter of discontent had been played by the students . |
| 7 | What level of negligence had been shown by the authorities ? |
| 8 | True , the actual business of typesetting has been lost by printers to desk-top publishers . |
| 9 | ‘ Yet again the depths of depravity have been plumbed by these people . |
| 10 | Town of course have been hit by the big freeze … this is their first game in a fortnight |
| 11 | While no formal admission of liability had been made by the health board , it was the amount of damages that was in dispute . |
| 12 | The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection . |
| 13 | That level of income has been described by the Prime Minister and the Government as a generous settlement for students , but the citizens advice bureaux provide a very different description . |
| 14 | In recent years , however , analysis based upon a given concept of ideology has been complemented by other projects , some of which also analyse buildings as repressive mechanisms or authoritarian representations ( e.g. Foucault 1977b ) , but whose overarching concepts such as ‘ power ’ or ‘ discourse ’ imply a still greater distance between interests and representations , and thereby a greater commitment to objectivism . |
| 15 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 16 | Quite the most spectacular change of direction has been made by Margaret O'Riordan ( Dr Rayman ) . |
| 17 | Where the environment has changed , the symptoms of hysteria have been replaced by a multitude of character neuroses and psychosomatic manifestations . |
| 18 | It is further true that some degree of heritability has been indicated by twin and pedigree analysis , of varying degrees of sophistication and reliability , in virtually every measurable category of cognitive ability and personality trait thus far studied . |
| 19 | The composition of Parliament has been altered by the Peerage Act 1963 and its powers by the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 . |
| 20 | As we have already seen , at least one Act of Parliament has been overridden by Community law . |
| 21 | By the 1980s the phenomenon of transinstitutionalization had been uncovered by Lamb and Brown amongst others . |
| 22 | This excess of fear has been displayed by weanling Thoroughbreds being prepared for public auction . |
| 23 | Thus the inception of a new focus for the study of chronology has been promoted by such stimulating developments and Bowen ( 1979 ) points out that the CLIMAP group have discovered significant evidence which supports the idea that the immediate future is one of adverse orbital geometry and general cooling and hence that ‘ the prediction of the future must rest on the past in the present ’ ( Bowen , 1979 , p. 181 ) . |
| 24 | It thus concerns itself solely with attempts to systematically evaluate the impact of an action , where the choice of action has been informed by reading . |
| 25 | Later a series of more detailed studies are to examine the way in which particular sectors of industry have been affected by , and in turn have attempted to influence the regulatory framework . |
| 26 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 27 | Steps towards free movement of labour have been taken by use of mutual recognition of many vocational qualifications . |
| 28 | This type of skepticism had been sustained by the knowledge that the mathematical devices used by Ptolemy could not be squared with the homocentric spheres of Aristotelian cosmology . |
| 29 | These various lines of reasoning have been challenged by , amongst others , the New Cambridge School which suggests that the relationships between the public sector and economic management may by no means be so simple . |
| 30 | Will the Minister say this evening whether the Government intend to implement , if not immediately , at least in the very near future , those sections of part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 that prevent the surrender of a disposal licence until a certificate of completion has been isssued by the relevant authority ? |