Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suitable for all solid fuels and gas , it meets BS 715 and has been certified by British Gas |
| 2 | The design of this study is now well known and has been analysed by other workers . |
| 3 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |
| 4 | ‘ This force has always existed within Nature and has been worshipped by human beings in various forms for aeons . |
| 5 | While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) . |
| 6 | It has passed its steam test and has been checked by British Rail engineers for quality . |
| 7 | There is some suspicion that the wheel , as with some other mills , may have originally been an external one and has been enclosed by subsequent extensions . |
| 8 | Murty , the Assistant Government Agent at Matara , wrote in his annual report for 1902 that ‘ it is true that cattle stealing can be and has been suppressed by drastic measures , such as wholesale convictions , involving both innocent and guilty , and by the application of the lash , but I can not conscientiously recommend this procedure . ’ |
| 9 | He 's won several awards for his radio work and has been praised by top journalists for documentaries he 's come up with for Radio One . |
| 10 | Yet this form of schooling has never really succeeded in England and has been surrounded by hostile controversy and apathy . |
| 11 | A two hour dialysis time does not achieve equilibrium values of the eicosanoid measured but reflects epithelial values and has been used by other authors . |
| 12 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |