Example sentences of "[verb] been by " in BNC.
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| 1 | part of this interpretation has been by politicians and clerics as well as by judges . |
| 2 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 3 | Having cut her teeth touring with a socialist theatre collective , her formal training has been by a battery of French mime gurus . |
| 4 | In other words , for Hinduism the road to monotheism has been by way of syncretism ( blending together ) rather than rejection . |
| 5 | Yet , as we shall see , this has been by far the most prevalent trend in terms of legislation , at least since the start of the 1970s . |
| 6 | The time-honoured method has been by urine testing , but with the renal threshold in the not so elderly being of the order of 10 mmol/1 glycosuria is only going to occur when the blood glucose is in double figures . |
| 7 | This latter work has been by Boehm 's team of physicists from Caltech , the Technical University of Munich , the Institute for Nuclear Science at Grenoble and the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research at Villigen . |
| 8 | For many years the beautiful Yellow Sword has been by far the most desirable livebearer in the European hobby . |
| 9 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 10 | In other words , the introduction and extension of state-pension rights over the course of the twentieth century has been by far the most important mechanism for increasing the effective wealth of the poorer sections of the population . |
| 11 | One way in which some writers have attempted to avoid this problem has been by appealing to literacy , as a case where the formal features of language can be claimed to make sense apart from context . |
| 12 | The next strongest performance has been by Giorgio de Chirico , up 690% at an average price of £55,000 even after a 25% fall last year . |
| 13 | Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism . |
| 14 | While psychoanalysis itself is very expensive , time-consuming , not available on the National Health Service , and therefore practised on only a small number of people , its influence has been by no means confined to those directly benefiting from treatment . |
| 15 | perhaps the best-known attempt to make such a link has been by Peter Hall . |
| 16 | I am by no means certain , however , he is right because , if he is right , the silence of the Act as to whether applications can be made ex parte or inter partes — which means , in my judgment , they could be either in appropriate circumstances — has been by the Rules cut down to deprive a party from being able to make an ex parte application . |
| 17 | The main constructive effort in providing for the future leisure activities of this national has been by Spanish and other Mediterranean resort countries , and predictably they have been the gainers . |
| 18 | The main method of revision has been by the publication of new editions . |
| 19 | and always has been by Ron . |
| 20 | Erm most of the i involvement I 've ever had in any kind of job has been by accident . |
| 21 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 22 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |
| 23 | Thus , at the time of the last Tory leadership election , a victory for Michael Heseltine would have been by far the most professionally exciting result . |
| 24 | Whatever refereeing failures there may have been by Alf Buksh at Tottenham on Saturday and most critics believe Mr Buksh booked too few Arsenal players too late Graham 's remarks afterwards did not befit an Arsenal manager . |
| 25 | If it were not for the scenes written after his marriage , The Elder Statesman would have been by far the grimmest play he had ever written . |
| 26 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 27 | Possibly , too , the building trade was invaded by a new class of speculator who made conditions even worse than they need have been by extracting high profits out of the unprecedented demand for cheap houses . |
| 28 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 29 | Kelly grunted , seemingly no more upset by the destruction of his diner than he would have been by a broken plate . |
| 30 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |