Example sentences of "been criticized by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such neglect has been criticized by authorities such as Goodhart and Veljanovski . |
| 2 | This has also been criticized by Ronald Fletcher , in a thorough analysis , because it is based on a false view of the human nervous system . |
| 3 | How may the message be disentangled from the original imagery through which it was conveyed , or is this to distort and change its meaning Farrer has been criticized by Ian Barbour who writes : ‘ By his appeal to authority , Farrer makes ‘ authorized images ’ immune to criticism … . |
| 4 | His theory has been criticized by Manton ( 1960 ) . |
| 5 | However , they have been criticized by Marxists and non-Marxists alike . |
| 6 | Kuhn 's demarcation criterion has been criticized by Popper on the grounds that it gives undue emphasis to the role of criticism in science ; by Lakatos because , among other things , it misses the importance of competition between research programmes ( or paradigms ) ; and by Feyerabend on the grounds that Kuhn 's distinction leads to the conclusion that organized crime and Oxford philosophy qualify as science . |
| 7 | The notion of the sociolinguistic variable whose variants are assumed to lie on single co-extensive phonetic and social dimensions has been criticized by ( amongst others ) Hudson and Holloway ( 1977 ) ; Romaine ( 1978a ) and Knowles ( 1978 ) . |
| 8 | Airbus Industrie rejected any suggestion that the aircraft itself was to blame , but its sophisticated " fly by wire " computer system had been criticized by some experts as over-complicated , and Indian Airlines staff complained that pilots and maintenance crew had received insufficient training on the Airbus . |
| 9 | The United States had not subscribed to the convention , which had been criticized by US conservative groups for not explicitly protecting the rights of the unborn child . |
| 10 | Coumbassa had been criticized by students for his refusal to start a dialogue with them . |
| 11 | Recently , however , he had been criticized by fellow Republicans as ineffective at a time when education was increasingly achieving national prominence as a key domestic issue . |
| 12 | Arafat 's stance of " positive neutrality " had been criticized by more militant leaders , who had pressed for military support for Iraq and the opening of a " second front " against Israel in Lebanon or the occupied territories . |
| 13 | Its first draft , presented in April 1991 [ see p. 38154 ] , had been discussed at an informal meeting of EC Foreign Ministers in Dresden on June 2-3 , and had been criticized by Jacques Delors , the President of the EC Commission , supported by the Netherlands , Belgium and Germany . |
| 14 | A staunch ally of President Soares , he had been criticized by political opponents of Soares for his soft handling of relations with China . |
| 15 | Lubbers had been criticized by the ANC and other opposition groups ; ANC president Nelson Mandela called his proposed visit " inopportune and ill-timed " . |
| 16 | Truly , a former astronaut , who had served in the post for two years [ for his appointment see p. 37437 ] , had been criticized by the Bush administration for his support for the shuttle programme , which was deemed insufficiently cost-effective when compared with rival launching systems . |
| 17 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 18 | The idea of maximizing the product of individual utilities has been employed by Fair ( 1971 ) and has been criticized by Ng ( 1979 ) . |
| 19 | This mechanism has been criticized by Keynesians . |
| 20 | The plans have been criticized by the vehicle owners ' organization , Stichting Weg , which has termed them " impractical , unreasonable and inequitable " . |
| 21 | The tropical forest policies of the World Bank have been criticized by its own researchers . |
| 22 | The dam project has been criticized by conservationists , who claim that it will ruin the area 's rice production , devastate fish stocks and may introduce dangerous diseases such as schistosomiasis or bilharzia ( as yet unknown in Thailand ) . |
| 23 | The World Bank 's failure to provide significant funding for energy conservation has been criticized by environmental groups after a report revealed that only 1 per cent of the Bank 's £1,800 million investment in third-world energy programmes was devoted to conservation . |
| 24 | The proposed Maasvlakte plant had been criticized by environmentalists and Rotterdam City Council , together with the US petrochemical company Texaco , which wants to build a coal gasification plant in the country . |
| 25 | The labelling scheme has been criticized by Greenpeace , the World Wide Fund for Nature , and other wildlife groups , on the grounds that the importers can not always substantiate their claims . |
| 26 | Originally intended to restrict hunting in the wake of the 1990 referendum [ see ED nos. 35/36 ; 47 ] , the law as passed has been criticized by environmentalists as likely to encourage it . |
| 27 | Environmentalists said that Mr MacGregor had been ill-advised , and pointed out that the Department 's environmental assessment policies had been criticized by both the EC [ which has threatened the UK with legal action over the matter — see ED no. 52 ] and the government 's Standing Committee on Trunk Road Assessment . |
| 28 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 29 | The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists . |
| 30 | The document has been criticized by environmentalists for merely offering suggestions and not setting out proposals for action . |