Example sentences of "it have been [vb pp] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | AROUND £58 million was wiped off the personal fortunes of Body Shop founders Anita and Gordon Roddick yesterday , when shares in the toiletries chain slumped £1.12 to £1.54 , following a shock warning from the company that it has been hit hard by the slump . |
| 2 | This control is justified as part of the general responsibility of central government for national economic management , and since 1990 it has been achieved mainly by controlling the money used to finance capital expenditure . |
| 3 | A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al . |
| 4 | It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development . |
| 5 | From the time it reached its fully articulated form in the middle twenties of this century it has been used daily by an army of honest toilers with consistently reliable results . |
| 6 | It has been stoked primarily by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Russian vice-president , who has warned that it may be time to review Khrushchev 's gift of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 , and by President Kravchuk , a Communist Party boss turned Ukrainian nationalist . |
| 7 | Failure to disperse after it has been read publicly by a magistrate or other official may render an offender liable to imprisonment . |
| 8 | It has been put together by a group of younger supporters , and the first issue comes complete with a free disabled driver sticker which should make parking at away games much easier . |
| 9 | It has been mended twice by the plumber — once with jointing compound , and then with a non-setting mastic filler . |
| 10 | Fascinating because it has been brought together by one of Britain 's leading painters ( although Hodgkin denies that the bright colours and strong forms employed by the Mughal period artists have influenced his art ) it is also an important entity in its own right . |
| 11 | ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’ |
| 12 | The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended . |
| 13 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 14 | We found all the little bits and pieces , the er , er , idiosyncrasies of how it had been prepared previously by yourself , |
| 15 | It had been prepared originally by the secret society he had joined two years earlier after being forced off his own rice lands for nonpayment of taxes , and he had copied it out dozens of times already in trying to win new recruits for the society in remote jungle villages far from Saigon . |
| 16 | It was also a strategic move towards the long-term goal of gaining international recognition for its struggle , and as such it had been resisted steadfastly by Ramos 's predecessors . |
| 17 | Situated in a basement , it had been founded originally by its owner Boris Watson as a chess club , a place where those with a fanatical interest in the game could ponder the next move in peace . |
| 18 | Since 1971 it had been administered jointly by Iran and the UAE , with offshore oil revenues shared between Iran and the rulers of the Sharjah emirate . |
| 19 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 20 | However , the Bill was enacted on May 9 under provisions of the Parliament Acts 1991 and 1949 ( whereby a bill could be passed directly for royal assent if it had been approved twice by the Commons but rejected both times by the Lords ) . |
| 21 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
| 22 | It appears that it had been sold illegally by members of the council to a local businessman with the intention of defrauding the local ratepayers . |
| 23 | Perhaps it had been driven there by a storm . |
| 24 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 25 | It 's been tried before by bigger names than me |