Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five years of exploitation have since been repaid by thirty years of largesse , but with dismal result : a situation which Professor Marshall Goldman of Harvard has likened to trying to cure a half-starved baby by overfeeding in old age . |
| 2 | Some of the changes affecting Liphook were announced by county councillor David Clark at the recent annual parish meeting and others have since been confirmed by HCC transport officials . |
| 3 | Some of the report 's recommendations have since been implemented by the Hong Kong authorities but AI continues to call for each asylum-seeker to receive legal advice at all stages of the process and to receive an oral hearing when appealing against refusal of refugee status . |
| 4 | Higher readings than expected have since been found by monitors along the coastline near Sellafield , and even in the dust inside seaside houses . |
| 5 | But the scenes of violent aggression have since been mitigated by equally extraordinary examples of altruism , in which older chimps have ‘ adopted ’ orphans too young to care for themselves . |
| 6 | Nevertheless I have since been informed by Richard Buckley that ( if the concept is not entirely meaningless in the circumstances ) the Co-op gives ‘ the best value for money ’ , in terms of materials used in their coffins and the general finish and quality of the handles and name-plate etc . |
| 7 | It seems that the Rub' al Khali desert of south-eastern Arabia occupies a structural offshoot of the Persian Gulf in which marine sands accumulated in the later parts of the Tertiary period and have since been reworked by the wind . |
| 8 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 9 | Many were built as focal points of vistas that have since been obscured by trees ; others stood in the centre of a grove of trees . |
| 10 | The leaves have since been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum , New York . |
| 11 | Commercial agencies for the establishment of surrogacy have since been outlawed by the 1985 Surrogacy Arrangements Act ( M. D. A. Freeman in Current Legal Problems , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | The data have mostly been provided by the organisations themselves . |
| 13 | Driver explained that ‘ we have effectively been prompted by our supplier , who has warned us that we had better wean people off it . |
| 14 | For example , they have found that " there is considerable evidence that attitudes to comfort are important in estimating the user 's contribution to conservation … yet these have rarely been explored by research on the effects of feedback " . |
| 15 | Reactions by pluralists to Marxist analysis of the Japanese state have rarely been characterized by rigorous argument . |
| 16 | Such risks have rarely been emphasised by telephone salesmen at Harvard and elsewhere , except through the compulsory wealth warnings stamped on all Harvard 's contract notes . |
| 17 | Two particular contracts relating to goods have long been recognised by the law , one of bailment and one of sale . |
| 18 | Deer , antelope , buffalo and other grazing mammals have long been hunted by man for their meat and hides and for the other products they yield . |
| 19 | These Cuban weaknesses have long been veiled by imports of grain and tinned meat . |
| 20 | Works of the 18th-century Enlightenment have long been collected by the Library to add to the existing collections : this year the purchase of the second edition of Adam Smith 's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ( London , 1778 ) enabled the Library to achieve a complete representation of editions of this most important work issued during the lifetime of the author . |
| 21 | Tallis argues that people talk of ‘ signifieds ’ , when they should say ‘ referents ’ ; there is nothing new or unfamiliar in the idea of verbal signs having multiple or even clashing references , and they have long been exploited by poets and punsters , as Tallis does in the title of his book . |
| 22 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |
| 23 | The procedures used by advisory appointment committees to appoint consultants have long been governed by successive statutory instruments of parliament for one reason only — to protect the public . |
| 24 | Not only has a trend towards the internalisation of negotiating activity been apparent in Britain but also in those countries such as the United States and Japan where enterprise level bargaining has predominated labour relations issues have long been handled by the managements of individual undertakings themselves . |
| 25 | Such registers have long been maintained by unions in industries where there is a tradition of using temporary workers — for example by the printers union ( NGA ) for the supply of casual labour to newspaper printing companies , and by the draughtsmen 's union ( TASS ) for the supply of " casual " or temporary drawing office staff . |
| 26 | Alloys of gold and silver with baser metals have long been controlled by established standards , first for coinage and then for plate , such as the English sterling standard guaranteed by a hallmark . |
| 27 | However , the exciting days of last February and March when the Stars were challenging with Chelmsford for promotion have long been forgotten by the home fans . |
| 28 | The Albanians in Yugoslavia are not a minority population , but the third largest national group in the country ; there are more than 3 million of them , but their national rights have long been abolished by the Yugoslavian Government . |
| 29 | Both wills and inventories have long been used by historians of the late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries . |
| 30 | The forms that have long been used by conveyancers ( LLC1 and Con 29A or Con 29D ) are to have their format altered with effect from 1 September 1991. ( b ) Who registers ? |