Example sentences of "been [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Perhaps the GMC and the royal colleges should ‘ ensure that procedures which are potentially harmful have been validated by careful placebo controlled clinical trials . ’ |
| 35 | Transitory increases in the prevalence of HIV antibody have all been explained by imported infection . |
| 36 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Because all his life , Richard , who 's now 24 , has been plagued by serious health problems . |
| 41 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 42 | It had been plagued by excessive absenteeism , restrictive practices , inter-union demarcation lines and poor product quality . |
| 43 | The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection . |
| 44 | The drug has been developed By British Biotechnology in Oxford and is undergoing tests on Breast cancer patients in Manchester . |
| 45 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 46 | That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 47 | The British Isles have been conquered by all manner of people from the Vikings , to the Picts , the Celts , the Saxons , the Romans and the Normans . |
| 48 | In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought , security is shaky . |
| 49 | During the last four decades , the natural habitats of Britain 's wildlife have been ravaged by modern farming methods , urban sprawl and pollution . |
| 50 | During the last four decades , the natural habitats of Britain 's wildlife have been ravaged by modern farming methods , urban sprawl and pollution . |
| 51 | After all spondai , meaning literally libations , was the Greek word for treaties , like the Thirty Years Peace , which would have been broken by unprovoked coercion of Megara . |
| 52 | The birch forests of Siberia , so upright , so elegant in autumn , had been broken by this winter campaign . |
| 53 | As environmental standards rise , especially for water quality , people worry more about cleaning up land that has been contaminated by past dumping . |
| 54 | At the mention of John 's child , Liza had been racked by renewed guilt . |
| 55 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 56 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 57 | ‘ TO SUPPOSE that the eye , with all its inimitable contrivances … could have been formed by natural selection , seems , I freely confess , absurd in the highest degree . ’ |
| 58 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 59 | For example , our solar system is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , as is an earlier generation of nearby stars in which heavy elements could have been formed by nuclear synthesis . |
| 60 | Political unrest and opposition-organized strikes in April had been provoked by economic hardship , for which the opposition had blamed the Nepali Congress Party . |