Example sentences of "been [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far in this chapter my argument has been that by entirely removing the Devil from the Christian world-view , or simply silencing him by demythologising him away a la Bultmann , we undercut the gospel as divine drama . |
| 2 | All round the feeling has been that by developing political representation , cooperation has increased its hold on the general public and is daily attracting new adherents to its principles . |
| 3 | In the UK , the most notable defection from an international company to set up an independent search business has been that by David Norman and Miles Broadbent , who were both previous Mds of Russell Reynolds in London , and who took with them other colleagues to found Norman Broadbent . |
| 4 | A comparable area of research has been that by Genevan workers with a concern for environmental processes such as Doise and Mugney ( 1984 ) and Perret-Clermont ( 1980 ) , who have claimed significant advances in cognitive development when children work in pairs on Piagetian tasks . |
| 5 | A variant theme in recent historiography has been that by the mid-ninth century , nobles had been too much influenced by the church 's stress on peace , and had thus become unfit for military service . |