Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 2 | So far the choice has been fudged by declared commitments to both EC technological collaboration and more competition . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The rape victim was able to give such a good description , that an artist 's impression has been recognised by several people . |
| 7 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 8 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 9 | Much has been written by social anthropologists against the materialist approaches in ethnographic analysis . |
| 10 | The book , entitled ‘ The Land of the Roe ’ , has been written by local school teacher Mr Samuel Mitchell and has been produced in association with Limavady Borough Council mainly as a resource for schools and colleges in the council area . |
| 11 | Much has been lost by various people in many different ways . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In five out of the last seven years the success rate for this type of appeal has been the first or second highest for all categories and almost one in every two appeals has been lost by local authorities . |
| 14 | The plan has been finalised by high-ranking officials of the Environment Protection Agency , although EPA Administrator William K. Reilly is still said to be " looking at the options " himself . |
| 15 | Sarah Sabin , 27 , who has a studio in Trinity Street , Colchester , has been assisted by local people in creating a map of the area , including roads , buildings and other major landmarks . |
| 16 | Women often are as important as men in making and keeping these links , which is one reason why the importance of the kin network in employment frequently has been missed by other researchers , who have looked for people with the same surname . |
| 17 | A more optimistic note on house prices has been struck by big builders Wimpey . |
| 18 | Historically , as we have seen , the country has been rent by various upheavals , sometimes of a quite violent nature . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A new instrument for measuring ozone levels in the air has been developed by Austrian scientists . |
| 21 | The drug has been developed By British Biotechnology in Oxford and is undergoing tests on Breast cancer patients in Manchester . |
| 22 | The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) . |
| 23 | The significance of attitude to work has been highlighted by numerous studies . |
| 24 | The World Bank 's failure to provide significant funding for energy conservation has been criticized by environmental groups after a report revealed that only 1 per cent of the Bank 's £1,800 million investment in third-world energy programmes was devoted to conservation . |
| 25 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 26 | The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists . |
| 27 | While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) . |
| 28 | Simon 's progress from world champion to fledgling novice has been monitored by senior instructor Alasdair Forbes … but what can you teach a world champion ? |
| 29 | In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought , security is shaky . |
| 30 | 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 . |