Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In too few cases has the reduction been accompanied by an admission that the new base will be more sustainable in future . |
| 2 | At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be . |
| 3 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 4 | How has maths teaching been influenced by the introduction of calculators and computers ? |
| 5 | But has the heart of British industry been influenced by the hype and pressure to change ? |
| 6 | The ego is that part of the id which has through perception been modified by the external world . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you agree with us , ’ I am asked , ‘ or has your manliness been squashed by the hard feminists ? ’ |
| 8 | Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master . |
| 9 | How has the ‘ reasonable man ’ test been interpreted by the courts ? |
| 10 | Have the procedures for ensuring a responsive bureaucracy been nullified by the power of the bureaucracy itself , so that the functionaries , rather than elected politicians ( who are no longer easily distinguishable from bureaucrats themselves ) , rule ? |
| 11 | I had walked about five hundred yards and yet only in this one spot , about as big in area as my dining table , had the normally silty bottom been cleared by the actions of the fish and clearly exposing masses of broken mussel shell fragments against which the zander stood out very boldly . |
| 12 | Nor could it have happened on such a scale had the banks ' powers of credit-creation been constrained by the prudential rules governing national financial structures . |
| 13 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 14 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 15 | With apologies to Winston Churchill I venture to mis-quote : ‘ Never has so much rubbish been written by a few , against so many . ’ |
| 16 | This allows a number of things to take place : ( a ) the investors can progress or complete the syndication of the investment ; ( b ) inter-group accounts and guarantees can be resolved ; ( c ) Newco can set up its own pension scheme or organise the provision of services that have in the past been provided by the vendors . |
| 17 | And the new structure erm moves towards erm team working across the advice centre composes of three teams er and also , takes on the critical self managing team so that erm in terms of the this work and technical support that er , has in the past been offered by a team leader , er , team leader and advice centre manager that will be , in the future will be offered by a senior member of staff erm , for each other and for less experienced staff . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) Pre-bid discussions with privileged shareholders ( eg institutions ) have in the past been forbidden by the Panel on the basis that they contravene General Principle 2 ( information should be made available to all shareholders alike ) . |
| 19 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |
| 20 | An " international brigade " of young environmentalists who have taken direct action against the construction work have in turn been attacked by a " valley militia " of locals who support the development . |
| 21 | The Department of Energy , for example , was responsible for providing an £80,000 grant to the Cornwall Energy Project ( CEP ) , a research group promoting the use of conservation and renewable sources of energy in the South-West peninsula , The CEP had in turn been requested by the local authorities consortium to provide evidence to the inquiry against the Electricity Board 's case . |
| 22 | As will have been apparent from the discussion on pre-emptive rights , this borrowing by the stock markets of an expression ‘ equities ’ derived from the activities of Courts of Chancery has in turn been borrowed by the companies ' legislation in its definition of ‘ equity securities ’ and ‘ equity share capital . ’ |
| 23 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 24 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 25 | Never before , in all the years of his work upon the project , has Christo been championed by the Bundestag 's president , but , paradoxically , Dr Suessmuth 's position of authority may be as much a hindrance as an advantage to his cause . |
| 26 | Or has the show been dominated by a faction from Goldsmith 's College ? |
| 27 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
| 28 | The second round of voting in the general election , which had been scheduled for Jan. 16 , had in the meantime been cancelled by an existing body , the High Security Council , which included Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali . |
| 29 | In gratitude for this service Gamlin was invited to become a Vice-president , Regional Vice-presidents having in the meantime been abolished by a revision of the constitution . |
| 30 | The social standing of deaf people may also have in no small way been aided by the Princess of Wales ( later Queen Alexandra ) who was stone deaf and who used fingerspelling as well as lipreading to communicate . |