Example sentences of "[that] have been [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To equate this ‘ avowed objective ’ of social policy with its real objective , as Marshall seems to do , involves an acceptance of a particular ideology about the ‘ welfare state ’ that has been challenged by various writers . |
| 2 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 3 | Usually it has something to do with the needs created by sharing : sharing the task of killing a large prey , sharing the task of defending the group against predators , sharing body heat to keep warm at night ; sharing out different duties that can be performed at the same time ; sharing the food that has been obtained by special members of the group ; and so on . |
| 4 | Yet the notion of inter-hemispheric inhibition is one that has been adopted by other authors to explain how language becomes lateralised to the left hemisphere ( Gazzaniga , 1974 ) . |
| 5 | I accept everything that has been said by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House about the need for a stronger line against terrorism . |
| 6 | In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought , security is shaky . |
| 7 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 8 | As environmental standards rise , especially for water quality , people worry more about cleaning up land that has been contaminated by past dumping . |
| 9 | Not all of the intercrystalline porosity that has been generated by late leaching is necessarily preserved because the host dolomites appear to have been compacted as leaching progressed , reducing the final porosity of the rocks ( Fig. 22b ; Clark 1980a ) . |
| 10 | The policy remains the policy that has been followed by successive health ministers from Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell through to Keith Joseph and myself — namely to make the health service as effective as possible . |
| 11 | The significance of a fifty-year cycle in Jewish life , with the remission of debts , the release of slaves , etc. , was eventually responsible for the practice that has been followed by successive Popes , since 1300 , in declaring a Jubilee of the Roman Church every fifty years . |
| 12 | Clean the test tube , add the right amount of chemical according to the textbook instructions , heat it up , watch the colour change on the litmus paper , a straightforward sequence of steps that has been performed by thousands before us and will be repeated by as many after . |
| 13 | St Helena , in the South Atlantic Ocean , is another example of an island that has been transformed by human activity . |
| 14 | If he has no such evidence , does he think that the introduction of Sunday trading in Britain is likely to cause the kind of social and moral breakdown that has been suggested by some advocates of restrictions ? |
| 15 | Given the suffering and misery that has been incurred by holy wars , crusades against infidels , inquisitions and the like , the strength of Gandhi 's position becomes clearer . |
| 16 | One red herring that has been produced by increased language awareness among teachers has been to try to rewrite academic texts so that pupils can cope with them . |
| 17 | Yet , if there is one principle that has been established by scientific investigation time and again , it is that physical violence is the least effective form of negative reinforcement when it comes to moulding a child 's behaviour . |
| 18 | THE commodity group , Berisford International , looked set yesterday to take over C&J Clark , the family-controlled shoemaker that has been wracked by internal feuding . |
| 19 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 20 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 21 | P cepacia was not recovered from the external surface of the spirometer handpiece , or from the arms of a wooden chair that had been grasped by each patient during spirometry . |
| 22 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 23 | Recent bootprints were marked in the thin coating of green sandy soil that had been blown by gentle breezes over the buildings . |
| 24 | Valerius Geist , a well-respected mountain sheep biologist , once found a mountain goat that had been killed by another and had no less than 32 horn punctures , including several injuries to the lungs and heart . |
| 25 | The attempt had been strengthened by the respect and admiration for Russian arms that had been aroused by Russian resistance on the eastern front . |
| 26 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 27 | Whatever generalizations might have been true at the level of national policy , it was becoming evident towards the end of an era that had been marked by political consensus that in Greater London and some of the other metropolitan areas the public accountability and operational methods of the police were no longer consensual . |
| 28 | Apart from the obvious benefits to those who , like myself , suffer with-gall stones , I was surprised to read so many other benefits to health that had been enjoyed by many volunteers . |
| 29 | Professor Holder ( 1980 ) , in another study for the NCGA , considered all the user groups that had been offered by eight previous studies . |
| 30 | We killed time by looking at classic cars that had been driven by classic car ‘ lovers ’ as they called themselves all the way from southern Italy . |