Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been accompany by " in BNC.

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1 The reduction in the scale of long term geriatric provision has been accompanied by an increase in the provision of residential care and nursing homes .
2 This dramatic reduction has been accompanied by a major change in course provision ; during recent years , the three-year Certificate of Education course , followed for a minority of students by a fourth year leading to a Bachelor of Education degree , has been completely replaced by integrated three- and four-year courses leading to ordinary and honours BEd degrees respectively .
3 Her closer engagement with concrete social change has been accompanied by a rapprochement with the conventions of science fiction .
4 The current recession has been accompanied by an unprecedented rise in the incidence of default on loans by both households and companies
5 Moreover , this strategy of revolutionary elitism has been accompanied by a reversal of the tactic of campaigning on the basis of crude , ethnocentric prejudices .
6 Fighting has been accompanied by massacres of civilians from the ‘ wrong ’ tribe .
7 One of the most unambiguous demonstrations of this comes from New Guinea where the virtual abolition of tribal warfare achieved by relatively recent European rule has been accompanied by a marked increase in the incidence of sorcery accusations .
8 Child health is also affected , as the decline in child cycling has been accompanied by a rise in the popularity of computer and video games , making children less active ’ .
9 In their study of 115 rape victims , Burgess and Holmstrom found that vaginal penetration by the penis had been accompanied by forced fellatio in 22 per cent .
10 The decline in residential capacity has been accompanied by a growth in community based alternatives such as specialist foster care , independent living under supervision and day-centres aimed at supporting , rather than supplanting , families .
11 Deregulation has been accompanied by new regulatory activity ( reregulation ) , the consequences of which are far from clear .
12 The emergence of specialized administrative organizations as part of the apparatus of government in the modern nation-state has been accompanied by the development of democratic ideology which stresses the importance of separating legislative , executive and judicial functions to prevent the concentration of power and therefore its abuse .
13 Far from it : rising unemployment in one sector has been accompanied by rising unemployment in the other sector .
14 Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America .
15 As expressed by Atiyah the ‘ weakening belief in the importance of the hortatory effect of the judicial process has been accompanied by , and has surely been part cause of , a change in the sense of justice itself .
16 Ever since the late 1950s almost every AIB team sent out to investigate a fatal accident has been accompanied by at least one RAF pathologist .
17 The move to a universal 20p rate band has been accompanied by the freezing of personal allowances , the married couples allowance , the widow 's bereavement allowances and blind persons allowance .
18 There would only be reason for despair if more general affluence had been accompanied by a withdrawal from the regard for precious substances , since this would imply rejection of the notion of excellence , the basis not merely of cultural advance but of the very attainment of humanity .
19 But as well as removing hazard , industrialization has been accompanied by an improvement in nutrition which may , if it persists , reduce or abolish any early-life costs of the late-life improvement .
20 The 1984 St Leger was classic Piggott in more ways than one , for the run-up to the race had been accompanied by a typical controversy over whether he had filched the big-race ride from a fellow jockey .
21 In 1979 there were reports that a ministerial reshuffle had been accompanied by charges of a coup attempt fomented by a foreign power , culminating in a number of executions .
22 I remind her that the Labour Government 's White Paper of 1977 said that the upsurge in the subsidy in the early years of that decade had been accompanied by sharp cuts in investment .
23 The relative decline of the UK economy has been accompanied by the loss of world leadership both in successive individual industries and in fields of social and welfare reform .
24 The success of smoke control areas throughout the country has also had an overall effect on odour pollution , due to the fact that the reduction in smoke has been accompanied by a fall in sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere , which in itself is odorous .
25 This trend has been accompanied by improved professional training and a significant rise in the numbers holding professional qualifications .
26 In Britain at least , and to a greater or lesser extent in other financial centres also , this deregulatory trend has been accompanied by a wave of new regulatory developments to ensure that deregulation does not go too far .
27 The changing financial fortunes of local government have been accompanied by substantial organizational change .
28 Advances in methods of excavation have been accompanied by various electronic devices for locating sites , more accurate methods of dating , and perhaps most important of all , many sophisticated techniques for interpreting the evidence provided by excavation and landscape survey , so that our understanding of the past has improved dramatically .
29 The growth in computer-based online information retrieval has been accompanied by an ever-increasing number of promotion , training and education courses .
30 War between Japan and the nations of the West had been accompanied by a partial rejection of Western cultural influences .
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