Example sentences of "been largely [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the agenda of the European Regional Association ( ERA-WACC ) has been largely influenced by these changes . |
| 2 | Although nationalist ambitions in Africa had been largely assuaged by these demonstrations of British good faith , this was not true of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East , or of Chinese Communism in the Far East . |
| 3 | In Uganda ( a country whose modern sector had been largely built by Indian entrepreneurs ) Milton Obote inserted a clause in the new Republican Constitution in 1966 which restricted the ownership of ‘ land , property or business , in certain areas to ‘ citizens of African blood ’ . |
| 4 | The labour market disadvantages of people with disabilities have been largely caused by unequal treatment institutional discrimination and structural barriers to equal opportunity , rather than by the limitations of disability itself . |
| 5 | Geoff Esland points out that since the 1946 National Health Service Act levels of pay and conditions of work in the medical profession , and spending on medical research , have been largely determined by central government . |
| 6 | Furthermore , trade policy has been largely defined by successive governments of both parties in terms of the need to remove barriers to its free development . |
| 7 | There has been a retirement migration to small inland towns in these regions for , as the authors of the study stress ‘ ail of these are rural areas with attractive scenery which have been largely by-passed by industrial development of any scale ’ ( Law and Warnes 1976 , p. 470 ) . |
| 8 | The struggle now became more equal , for the churned , blood-stained mud affected both sides ; and both were short of food and ammunition , since their supply lines had been largely demolished by rival artillery fire . |
| 9 | The vernacular rules predict that dabble will be subject to backing — certainly not front-raising — and it is unlikely that this speaker is following the highly recessive rule for front-raising after velars in the item castle ( this has been largely abandoned by younger low-status speakers ) . |
| 10 | The company is hoping to cash in on a niche — fault-tolerant personal computing — that has been largely overlooked by traditional players like Tandem Computer Inc and Stratus Computer Inc , by offering low cost PC-based fault-tolerant systems to the market . |