Example sentences of "been [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 2 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 3 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 4 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 5 | In addition to the significant changes which have taken place in local taxation , there have also been attempts by government to modify the tax structure in order to make it more equitable , while at the same time encouraging savings and increasing the base of UK share ownership . |
| 6 | If there was actual combustion of the damaged goods , however caused , there has been damage by fire . |
| 7 | This is conceded in respect of an offence which would once have been larceny by a trick . |
| 8 | gives two examples in order to show that theft may be committed , although the ( so-called ) appropriation is made by the offender with the consent of the owner , ( 1 ) in the case of robbery and ( 2 ) where there has been larceny by a trick . |
| 9 | So on the FGM all three have been countersunk by an extra few mm , meaning that the pickup mounting rings sit flush with the body , which does n't look half as odd as you 'd imagine . |
| 10 | I have agreed with the Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North that there have been criticisms by the Scottish Consumer Council as to information about bus services . |
| 11 | There had been visits by the Royal couple to several foreign countries also , including Communist countries at a time when there existed grave doubts about relationships with those countries . |
| 12 | In the seven cases where no specific primary carer was named as participating , four social workers had been aides by unspecified ‘ others ’ , and the remaining three had completed the form with the cooperation of the young person ( 16–18 year old ) alone . |
| 13 | The gun had been handbuilt by Holland & Holland of London , perfectly balanced and beautifully engraved . |
| 14 | In the run up to todays budget meeting there have been protests by parents and teachers worried that education , as the authorities biggest spender , will bear the brunt of the cuts . |
| 15 | From the very earliest days of Hollywood there have been reviews by part-time critics and intellectuals praising particular films for breaking away from the usual formulas . |
| 16 | There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics . |
| 17 | In early September there had been allegations by Catholic bishops in the south that government soldiers in Juba were burning homes , killing suspected SPLA sympathizers , mining roads out of the town and using civilians as human shields . |
| 18 | In Austria there have been sales by the holding company for state companies , Obesterreichissche Industrien , and in Sweden also . |
| 19 | If estoppel was to be relied on , it ought , I think , to have been estoppel by representation . |
| 20 | Volume of total gastric juice in basal and under pentagastrin infusion was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute samples in each period ( Table ) and the hourly output of each substance ( platelet activating factor : pg/hr ; lyso platelet activating factor : µg/hr ; AAGPC : µg/hr ; acid : mmol/hr ; pepsin : pepsin unit UP/hr ; NANA : µg/hr ; choline : µg/hr ) was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute rates of secretion ; each 15 minute rate having been determiend by multiplication of concentration by the volume of gastric juice aspirated during 15 minutes . |
| 21 | But that is neither the history nor the practice of our professional system , not just er for accountants but for the legal system as well and I think it has stood the test of time , er he will know that there has been er there is a procedure for the joint disciplinaries scheme er which enables the er institute to investigate whether there has been compliance by member firms with the standards promulgated er with er er by the er er auditing practices board and that seems to me to be the er right way forward . |
| 22 | Mr Griffiths also claimed there had been interference by the DTI as far back as December , when it pre-empted the OFT by giving the bid the all-clear at an early stage in the proceedings . |
| 23 | Two of the most important exceptions to this have been works by the cultural historians , T. J. Clark and Carl Schorske . |
| 24 | There had been invasions by descendants of the deposed Stuarts in 1715 and in 1745 and , though neither had been successful , both of them had been rather alarming . |
| 25 | Dicta referred to above suggest that a court is entitled , indeed , obliged to be satisfied that there has been enactment by the monarch with the advice and consent of Lords and Commons ( except in the case of the Parliament Act procedure dealt with above , pp.98–9 ) . |
| 26 | In the budget for 1992 announced on Jan. 20 , 1992 , spending on education had been increases by 19 per cent over the previous year . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
| 28 | Southeast of this elongated zone these sediments had already been overthrust by Precambrian and Palaeozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces . |
| 29 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 30 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |