Example sentences of "been [vb pp] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 2 | Wirral Tory claims that the situation is a result of Labour councillors backing a ‘ ca n't pay , wont pay ’ campaign have been dismissed by Labour leader Coun Dave Jackson . |
| 3 | Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees . |
| 4 | She sat back , visualising the scene as the mud in the sample had been examined by remote control , and the virus isolated . |
| 5 | The entire Barnes collection has been examined by National Gallery conservators , and the National Gallery has agreed to arrange for the tour 's transportation and insurance . |
| 6 | The attempt had been strengthened by the respect and admiration for Russian arms that had been aroused by Russian resistance on the eastern front . |
| 7 | The team has been joined by full-time translator Sarah Hutton , whose specialities are Dutch and Russian . |
| 8 | Like all Chinese bikes , it is an all-purpose workhorse : so strong it will probably go on and on , until like most other bikes on the road its seat leather is worn right through and every part has been patched by street-corner bike repairers . |
| 9 | Research director Ulrich Seiffert was anxious to put an end to rumours that the engine had been delayed by chronic friction and vibration problems . |
| 10 | Both indices have weakened somewhat in recent months , however , a pattern consistent with the view that recovery has been delayed by political uncertainty and will occur once the election is out of the way . |
| 11 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes ' polar trek has been delayed by bad weather . |
| 12 | The appointment of the Cabinet had been delayed by intense rivalry for places between Samakkhi Tham and Chart Thai . |
| 13 | Observers suggest that readers lured by promotions such as the October British Airways offer have been stabilised by added value supplements such as the fashion supplement Visage , launched in the same month . |
| 14 | While advertising had long been favoured by British industry , public relations was hardly used until the beginning of the 1950s . |
| 15 | The problem of the evolution of recombination , and to a great extent of sex itself , is to explain why genes such as R have been favoured by natural selection . |
| 16 | Where the mucous has become distasteful , the animals bearing it have prospered , and in this way increasingly distasteful and eventually highly poisonous secretions have been favoured by natural selection . |
| 17 | The German-American geneticist Richard Goldschmidt is the most distinguished of those who have argued that the early evolution of such resemblances could not have been favoured by natural selection . |
| 18 | The centralizing mission of the old monarchy had been limited by provincial privilege . |
| 19 | I 've always been fascinated by British history . |
| 20 | From childhood he had been fascinated by natural history , and at Cambridge he decided on a career which would enable him to combine medical research with his interest in comparative biology . |
| 21 | It is unrealistic to expect GPs to fund such studies , although some have been undertaken by central government ( Anderson , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | It also seeks your approval to the which has been undertaken by respective chief officers , during the current financial year , in which , is why I 'm reporting to you now in accordance with the national regulations . |
| 23 | Similarly , there were 10 patients with longstanding acquired megacolon and megarectum with normal ileal function and acceptable anal sphincter activity who have been treated by restorative proctocolectomy . |
| 24 | Until the late 1970s gall bladder disease has generally been diagnosed by oral cholecystography or intravenous biligraphy , but during the 1980s ultra sonography has become the preferred treatment . |
| 25 | The impact of this major modification of the firm 's external boundaries has been compounded by internal realignment , specifically the withdrawal of the guaranteed privileged status previously accorded RX 's own manufacturing plants . |
| 26 | There should be a close dialogue between the GMC and the royal colleges to ensure that procedures which are potentially harmful have been validated by careful placebo controlled clinical trials using generally accepted procedures . |
| 27 | Perhaps the GMC and the royal colleges should ‘ ensure that procedures which are potentially harmful have been validated by careful placebo controlled clinical trials . ’ |
| 28 | Transitory increases in the prevalence of HIV antibody have all been explained by imported infection . |
| 29 | According to this report , the move was aimed at discrediting Arafat , who was already under serious pressure because of his backing of Iraq during the Gulf war , by stressing that the release had been arranged by Khaled Fayoum , a pro-Syrian opponent of Arafat . |
| 30 | Lives have been wrecked by evil designer drugs such as Ecstasy , but at last a healthy , legal alternative with the same buzz is now available in raves up and down the country . |