Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reactions by pluralists to Marxist analysis of the Japanese state have rarely been characterized by rigorous argument . |
| 2 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 3 | Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees . |
| 4 | Twenty-five years of exploitation have since been repaid by thirty years of largesse , but with dismal result : a situation which Professor Marshall Goldman of Harvard has likened to trying to cure a half-starved baby by overfeeding in old age . |
| 5 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 6 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 7 | Although the borders had officially been closed on May 2 , 1989 , they had since been crossed by large numbers of Somali refugees , some of whom were now returning home . |
| 8 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 9 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 10 | Their map has since been superseded by photographic atlases . |
| 11 | The old chestnut of rating a disk drive by its Data Access Time , or Average Seek Time has long since been overtaken by modern drive technology . |
| 12 | The offer had effectively been rejected by Palestinian negotiators at the April bilateral round . |
| 13 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 14 | Once you 've seen the production , in many ways an unexpected one , you 'll understand that Mr Hall is n't being pretentious and that Mr Hoffman has n't suddenly been struck by false modesty . |
| 15 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 16 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 17 | The structures of Employee Involvement have only been accepted by salaried staff ; shopfloor unions have refused to make a formal commitment to the programme , which is regarded as contrary to the established contractual job-control orientation of workplace trade unions . |
| 18 | The construction of a large grammar represents a major problem in it 's own right which has only been attempted by well-funded projects . |
| 19 | ‘ In no case where we interviewed had the woman only been raped by one man . |
| 20 | While it remains to be seen which , if any , of these options is adopted , it is not very encouraging that in recent years a number of offers of adoption have apparently been made by national bodies , only to be discouraged by the DES . |
| 21 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 22 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 23 | Assam , in common with other north-eastern states , had long been troubled by secessionist groups . |
| 24 | It has long been argued by feminist critics that ‘ community care ’ is merely a euphemism for care by the family — which in turn means care by women . |
| 25 | It has long been argued by some accounting theorists that business accounts should also include an opportunity cost of capital in the income statement . |
| 26 | While advertising had long been favoured by British industry , public relations was hardly used until the beginning of the 1950s . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity . |
| 28 | Members of the Aetherius Society — who think that Earth has long been visited by benevolent travellers from outer space — believe that Ben Macdhui houses an underground dome-shaped auditorium visited by aliens . |
| 29 | Kanamycin is included in the guidelines , but this has long been superseded by other aminoglycosides . |
| 30 | Alloys of gold and silver with baser metals have long been controlled by established standards , first for coinage and then for plate , such as the English sterling standard guaranteed by a hallmark . |