Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , its application to class differences has been recognised by many commentators , most notably in the work of Basil Bernstein ( 1971 ) on whom Greenfield leans heavily .
2 The importance of accountability relationships to economic success has been recognised by those writers who point to the rise of the Japanese version of ‘ collective ’ capitalism .
3 The rape victim was able to give such a good description , that an artist 's impression has been recognised by several people .
4 The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge .
5 We therefore conclude that an element important for neuronal-specific expression has been lost by this deletion and as a consequence that the transgene is more sensitive to position-effects .
6 The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns .
7 The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists .
8 It is a stance which has been nurtured by several things , family bereavement and an intelligent , contemplative nature amongst them , but was perhaps most impelled by the experience of coaching in Bangladesh in the winter of 1989–90 .
9 A clearing processing system has been adopted by each exchange for which LCH clears , except the metal exchange .
10 Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems .
11 Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) .
12 It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context .
13 This flexible approach to arranging help for childcare has been adopted by several companies .
14 The reliability of the sedimentation tube methods , as determined by good reproducibility of results from repeated analysis of the same samples and by analysis of multiple sub-samples from individual sediments , has been recorded by many workers .
15 The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position .
16 In Britain , for example , the evolving structure of the financial markets has been characterised by both processes of deregulation and reregulation : the former , in that barriers which impede competition and choice have been discarded ; and the latter , in the sense that new regulatory measures have been adopted to cater for problems arising from structural changes .
17 Education , in recent years , has been characterised by less rigidity , less concentration and greater opportunities for mobility , but all these features become more apparent higher up the educational pyramid .
18 Meanwhile , the British Red Cross has been contacted by many people across the region offering accommdation and help if more wounded from the former Yugoslavia are brought here in future .
19 The unchanging , unknowable , eternal wellspring of that energy has been called by many names in many civilisations : Brahman , Allah , God , The Absolute , to name a few .
20 That point has been made by many business organisations .
21 Some effort has been made by some libraries to assist libraries and institutions with user education programmes , for example , universities and polytechnics for schools , and public libraries also for schools , 2 but this expresses local efforts of co-operation , rather than the submission that user education is a continuous process which takes place throughout the various educational sectors and beyond .
22 A further point in relation to the accusation of the ethnocentricity of Freud 's assumptions about gender roles has been made by some people in the Women 's Movement , such as Kate Millet and Ann Oakley .
23 Its independent status has been supported by many companies , merchant bankers , stockbrokers and lawyers .
24 Whether light as well as heat is generated in these reactions has been questioned by some critics .
25 Recently he has acted as consultant on the hit West End musical Miss Saigon ( transfer to Broadway expected soon ) , the story of a love affair between a GI and a Vietnamese bar girl which has been condemned by some critics as exploitative .
26 The Quality Framework described in this Update has been shaped by those responses .
27 What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon .
28 It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians .
29 The basal-subtracted EC 5 — the concentration of gastrin necessary to increase acid secretion from basal to half maximal acid secretion — has been advocated by some workers to be a more appropriate index of parietal cell sensitivity .
30 Moreover , the instinctual ( or ‘ drive reduction ’ ) model has been embraced by all shades of opinion , from the conservative moralist anxious to control this unruly force to the Freudian left ( Wilhelm Reich , Herbert Marcuse , Erich Fromm ) wanting to ‘ liberate ’ sexuality from its capitalist and patriarchal constraints .
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