Example sentences of "[noun] been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) . |
| 2 | Monkey Mia , on the remote western coastline of Australia , has for more than two decades been visited by wild dolphins . |
| 3 | There were reports that the royal palace in the capital , Maseru , had on that day been surrounded by armed troops , and that the Army was patrolling the town , but Lekhanya on Feb. 22 denied that the King had been placed under house arrest . |
| 4 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 5 | HAD GENERAL Manuel Noriega been overthrown by rebel troops , it would have meant the end of a two-year political crisis that has wrecked Panama 's economy and brought political embarrassment and frustration to the United States . |
| 6 | ‘ Has ever a literary life been preceded by such rumblings and trumpetings ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | How far have woodland owners ' decisions been influenced by these measures ? |
| 8 | This Act still forms the basis of legal immunities in trade disputes , though most of the relevant provisions have in fact been inserted by textual amendment by later legislation . |
| 9 | The allocation to Greater York has in fact been derived by extensive joint working between the County Council and the five Greater York districts . |
| 10 | The overall response of the British state to this twofold crisis has to a large extent been characterized by penological pragmatism : responding to developments and attempting to manage the resources crisis ‘ with no clear or coherent philosophical or other theoretical basis ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 4 ) . |
| 11 | Particular questions to be considered include : i to what extent has the emergence of new military technology from the laboratories been steered by strategic interests and too what extent was it an autonomous product of the laboratories ; ii how has the relationship between the work done in the national laboratories to that done by defence contractors altered ; iii what are the pressures for greater commercial application of research ; what effect has this had ? |