Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Convention has currently been ratified by 14 European states . |
| 2 | Research into the history of corporate finance during the period before 1914 has been limited by two major difficulties . |
| 3 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 4 | It will be the first set of requirements that UI has published that have been validated by 50 major users worldwide . |
| 5 | The consistently low wages paid to farm workers have been explained by five main considerations . |
| 6 | Herringbroom Studio has been developed by three working painters — Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker . |
| 7 | Subsequently it was suggested ( Hare , 1973 ) that this trend in climatology had been emphasized by three other contributions identified as the micrometeorological method whereby a branch of experimental physics has used experimental techniques to provide physical insights into the nature of the earth 's surface and planetary boundary layers ; the microclimatological method where the techniques of micrometeorological measurement and boundary layer theory together with the related parts of soil physics and plant physiology are applied to exchange and transformation processes over natural surfaces , leading to study of energy transformation at the land surface , water movement upwards and downwards through the soil , and to how carbon dioxide is assimilated during photosynthesis and released during respiration ; and the hydrological method whereby energy exchange during the hydrological cycle was quantified . |
| 8 | Although it has no bearing on our decision , it should be pointed out that had the courts had power to make the order sought , Dr. Hayes ' evidence would in any event have been circumscribed by two public interest immunity certificates issued on 13 April 1992 respectively by the Secretary of State for Transport relating to ‘ security measures ’ and by the Lord Advocate in relation to potential criminal proceedings in Scotland . |
| 9 | FRUSTRATED Leeds have been wounded by two more injury blows as they bid to kick-start their season with a win over Hull KR tomorrow . |
| 10 | In the first room he looked into , the window space had already been commandeered by two native pensioners and an indigo planter ; in the next room he was just in time to see the camel guns fired … the sofa recoiled on its protesting castors and the men serving the guns set to work to re-load . |
| 11 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 12 | That plea for assistance has been answered by two keen runners , Hilda Mills and Roseanne Partridge , from The Body Shop in Lewisham . |
| 13 | He said that the latter was a member of Beattie 's UDA company and that the meeting had been attended by four other UDA officers when he named . |
| 14 | Such ‘ feminising ’ factors have been foiled by two other inventions , that of separate sexes ( many animals and some plants have abandoned hermaphroditism , perhaps because half the hermaphrodites were feminised and it therefore paid the remainder to turn into pure males ) and genetic sex determination . |
| 15 | Professor Holder ( 1980 ) , in another study for the NCGA , considered all the user groups that had been offered by eight previous studies . |
| 16 | I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the positive case that they have made on behalf of the Labour party , especially for common environmental policies and for minimum social standards as proposed by the social charter , which has been agreed by 11 other countries . |
| 17 | What should have been produced by 4 million workers needed 6.7 million to be manufactured , i.e. per capita productivity was more than 50% below the planned level . |
| 18 | They are simply told to imagine that the adjectives had been used by 6 different people to describe another person , and to use these traits to form an impression of that imaginary person . |
| 19 | In this study it has been shown by two independent methods that histamine increases the in vitro proliferation of the two gastric tumour cells ; MKN45 and MKN45G but not the two colorectal lines ; C170 and LoVo . |
| 20 | Alaris Inc has been founded by two former Everex executives to address that potentially growing problem . |
| 21 | The original windows had been replaced by two long windows occupying almost the whole of the end wall . |
| 22 | Observers believe the confusion may have arisen because the original KGB ceased to exist as on January 1 and has been replaced by two separate agencies , both of which entered into negotiations to sell the files . |
| 23 | The crew of the explosive blockship HMS Campbeltown had been reduced to 75 hands ; the four funnels she had carried as the USS Buchanan , old Buck , had been replaced by two raked-back stacks to resemble a German Möwe-class destroyer . |
| 24 | Traditional local economic policies developed during the 1970s have been replaced by two new forms of economic strategy , labelled by observers ‘ restructuring for capital ’ and ‘ restructuring for labour ’ . |
| 25 | The Networked Systems Group has been replaced by four new groups : Systems Technology , Workstation Systems , Systems and Servers and Integrated Systems Groups . |
| 26 | The 12 person dormitories have been replaced by five purpose-built houses , each with rooms catering for between two and six people . |
| 27 | In the 1980s the United Kingdom New Issue market in equities has been affected by two major developments . |
| 28 | Our sense of injustice has been shared by three senior journals editors we have discussed the matter with . |
| 29 | The request had been brought by 247 conservative MPs including Chancellor Helmut Kohl , and was supported by the Bavarian government . |
| 30 | The airport had been seized by one revolutionary force and the communication centre by an opposing one . |