Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors through the centuries have been impressed by the beauty and harmony of these proportions . ’ |
| 2 | Indians of many parties have been terrified by the prospect of escalating Hindu-Muslim violence , highlighted in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh during the first round of voting , when 19 people were killed . |
| 3 | Even when North Yorkshire sites have been short-listed by an investor on quality grounds the county has had no means of matching the financial incentives elsewhere . |
| 4 | Previous attempts to determine the binding specificity of CytR to DNA sites have been complicated by the fact that repression by CytR relies on both CytR-DNA interactions as well as on direct interactions with cAMP-CRP ( 2 , 10 ) . |
| 5 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 6 | Even ordinary varieties of plants like antirrhinums and pot marigolds ( calendulas ) may produce disappointing results because the plants have been cross-pollinated by other varieties or colours . |
| 7 | Such calculations have been complicated by the scale and mix of GPA 's debts . |
| 8 | Health watchdogs such as Hereford Community Health Council , say that patients have been confused by the NHS reforms . |
| 9 | ( In recent years Western medical practitioners have been astonished by the rejuvenating properties , on the young and old alike , of these exercises . ) |
| 10 | Her neighbours have been shocked by the accident . |
| 11 | These critics have been disappointed by The Stock Exchange 's announcement that it will not insist on compliance as a listing requirement . |
| 12 | Colleagues and fellow PA Council members have been impressed by his astuteness and authority , and there is evident relief in Bedford Square at managing at last to persuade him to stand . |
| 13 | Over the years royal staff and her friends have been puzzled by Diana 's appetite , particularly as she always appeared to be so slim . |
| 14 | IN the four months since Mr Major emerged from negotiations in the Dutch town of Maastricht , his main rivals among the European Community 's leaders have been embarrassed by their electorates . |
| 15 | Detectives have been shocked by the ferocity of the attacks |
| 16 | Negotiations have been complicated by the refusal of the developing countries to cede any of their voting power to the Group of Seven . |
| 17 | Others have been unconvinced by the search for an overall — and underlying — logic , linking the various local government reforms . |
| 18 | And some home-owners have been shocked by the size of the bill when old and worn pipes water their front lawn from below . |
| 19 | In both countries these and other social policies have been short-circuited by war and destabilization , and by the slide into a major debt crisis . |
| 20 | Third , Indian exports have been depressed by a combination of politics and nature . |
| 21 | Inside , the walls have been damp-proofed by injection and I have re-layed the stone floor flags myself . |
| 22 | Below dado height , the soothing parchment-coloured walls have been marbled by a friend . |