Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 2 | In consequence of its importance as a relic of local industrial archaeology , the mill has been listed as a building of architectural or historic interest ( Grade II ) , a status which has not been jeopardised by the very careful treatment of the building by its present owners in their continuing programme of conversion and conservation . |
| 3 | The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain . |
| 4 | The perceptual side of the Umwelt has received less attention than the motor aspect , the study of animal perception ( as opposed to sensory physiology or discriminative behaviour ) having been inhabited by the explicitly anti-mentalistic bias of behaviourism . |
| 5 | Paisley 's whole career has been distinguished by a finely developed sense of symbolism and an event like the imprisonment was not to be wasted . |
| 6 | The chances are that her shock has been compounded by an unexpectedly extreme reaction . |
| 7 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 8 | More recently , this conclusion has been confined by the more direct method of extracting DNA from various kinds of cells and determining the base sequence of some of their genes . |
| 9 | The original double entrance doors to the booking hall had been replace by an utterly incongruous picture window as had adjacent booking hall and waiting room windows . |
| 10 | Coconut 's yellow oilskins had been superseded by an equally blinding anorak and I , in the regrettable absence of my ski-suit jacket , looked camouflaged against the trees in stone-washed jeans and a roomy olive-drab Barbour borrowed from Tremayne . |
| 11 | Or , perhaps all our democratic rights have now been superseded by an even more compelling one — the right not to know . |
| 12 | As a child , she had been dominated by a slightly older brother . |
| 13 | The 1984 general election [ see pp. 33327-28 ] had been dominated by a hastily assembled NNP coalition , from which the current NDC , TNP and NNP originated . |
| 14 | It is because trust has been eroded by the long running conflict between central Government and the teaching unions that as a nation we are far from realising the ideal of having our schools staffed by the true professionals that children deserve . |
| 15 | Animals give the appearance of having been designed by a theoretically sophisticated and practically ingenious physicist or engineer , but there is no suggestion that the bats themselves know or understand the theory in the same sense as a physicist understands it . |
| 16 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 17 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 18 | He has been succeeded by the equally hard working Ken Lake , whose job among other things is to co-ordinate the various partnerships with the regional secretaries and keep ESCA 's profile high amongst the school cricket fraternity . |
| 19 | Here were still the great theatres , whose promenades had been paraded by the most sublime courtesans of the age . |
| 20 | Now , if the depression has been preceded by a particularly deep-going crisis , equilibrium may be established at such a low level of activity that the volume of fixed capital currently being produced may well be considerably smaller than that which would allow for the time-proportional replacement of fixed capital at the previous average rate . |
| 21 | The march had been organized by the recently formed Serbian Democratic Party and the People 's Radical Party , with the backing of the banned Serbian National Renewal . |
| 22 | The riots appear to have been precipitated by an apparently casual incident when a Meskhetian angrily tipped over a table of strawberries being sold by an Uzbek girl . |
| 23 | The surprise move is believed to have been precipitated by the privately held company 's unprofitable year-end results tallied as of March 31 . |
| 24 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 25 | It had been made by a galactically known artist — an ancient , smelly and mostly blind human living on a renovated asteroid near the Home System where Old Earth still spins . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know how much longer we can hope to keep this a clandestine relationship , ’ Luke said sardonically one Friday night when the immediate edge of the savage hunger for each other that built up during their partings had been soothed by a wildly abandoned reunion . |
| 27 | In the case of a registered title , a charge may have been secured by the less formal method of giving notice to the Land Registry of " Notice of Deposit " ( or " Intended Deposit " ) of the land certificate , and in such a case the appropriate document is the " Withdrawal of Notice " , which is endorsed on the back of the official receipt of notice of deposit . |
| 28 | I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out . |
| 29 | Once such a notice has been accepted by the OFT , the period within which the merger must be evaluated starts to run . |
| 30 | After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation . |