Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [vb pp] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether light as well as heat is generated in these reactions has been questioned by some critics . |
| 2 | This intake of children from ethnic minority groups has been associated by some with difficulties within the school , such as ‘ declining standards ’ and ‘ discipline problems ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 5 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 6 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 7 | Older fans have been irked by this change of direction . |
| 8 | According to the Link 's busy manager Ken Lee , the Woodland Road offices have been contacted by several other business ventures around the which are interested in emulating Darlington 's success . |
| 9 | My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows . |
| 10 | Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police . |
| 11 | The length of life we can expect to enjoy has gone up markedly over that period and the number of children who die before the age of five in developing countries has been reduced by half . |
| 12 | The capitalism of the Chicago meatyards has been replaced by that of the information system ; ‘ … organizations have shed more than one million managers and staff professionals since 1979. … technology will enable senior management to monitor and control large organizations more effectively … |
| 13 | His voice was low , easy , the faint accent she 'd barely noticed before more pronounced now , unless it was just that her senses had been heightened by that devastatingly thorough kiss . |
| 14 | Two subject areas have been energised by this very physical application of paint ; garden scenes and old women . |
| 15 | Britain 's natural dry grassland areas have been reduced by half over the past 50 years , and much of the remainder is under threat from destruction , according to a study co-ordinated by the Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) . |
| 16 | In the past year-and-a-half , 2,500 Colombians have been killed by such groups and a further 250 have disappeared after being detained by security forces , according to Amnesty . |
| 17 | Mergers of health authority-run services with trusts have been criticised by some opponents of the Government 's NHS reforms as obtaining trust status ‘ by the back door ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ We regularly come into contact with elderly people whose lives have been ruined by such cowardly attacks , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 19 | As to the first of those points , the ability of the courts to control the visitor by the prerogative writs has been established by many cases . |
| 20 | Her finding of a mean right ear advantage ( REA ) in , the recall of dichotically presented material by right handers has been replicated by many investigators ( see Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ; Berlin and McNeill , 1976 ) and is now a firmly established phenomenon . |
| 21 | The reasoning of the courts in denying employee status to agency workers has been criticised by some academic lawyers as a failure to accept the reality of their objective situation.2 Equally important is the fact that in some cases the operations of " agencies " and " works contractors " are virtually identical . |
| 22 | In all , 61 respondents were eventually contacted and interviewed , 28 were Detoxification Unit patients and 39 were Drugs Council clients , six individuals having been selected by both samples . |
| 23 | At the crossroads outside the village a row of clay effigies had been placed by those who 'd been bitten . |
| 24 | Sales by 1948 were almost double those of ten years earlier , though the installed capacity of power stations had been increased by less than half of this . |
| 25 | Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , these implications have been taken by many readers , who feared a return to learning definitions off by heart . |
| 27 | That so many museum curators have been deceived by these fakes is less surprising when seen in the context of both the style itself and the history of archaeology in Oaxaca . |
| 28 | Perhaps Webern was aiming at just such a lack of definition , and certainly many composers have been attracted by this very quality , as well as by his intellectualism , over the last thirty years . |
| 29 | In the absence of reliable evidence about their attitudes and behaviour , the trade union officials have been viewed by some as a force for moderation and conservatism , by others as faithfully reflecting the views of their members , and by others as industrially and politically more militant than the members . |
| 30 | The significance of the new appointments and structures has been emphasised by several commentators , especially those with a general management perspective . |