Example sentences of "have been [verb] by [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists .
3 A clearing processing system has been adopted by each exchange for which LCH clears , except the metal exchange .
4 Education , in recent years , has been characterised by less rigidity , less concentration and greater opportunities for mobility , but all these features become more apparent higher up the educational pyramid .
5 That point has been made by many business organisations .
6 What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon .
7 It has been argued by some cat experts that any vet performing this convenience operation should be prosecuted for cruelty to animals , but this is unfair to them .
8 David Noble ( 1977 ) takes this argument a stage further and argues not just that the use , but also the design , of the CNC machine tool has been influenced by these management control considerations .
9 The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields .
10 There is mounting suspicion , too , that Britain 's market in cars , car parts and servicing has been poisoned by this system .
11 That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham .
12 But social dumping is but one example of the way in which the European spirit has been abused by this government .
13 A letter has been received by each objector stating that arrangements have been made to hold a Public Local Inquiry which will begin on 4th November 1991 .
14 This notion has been challenged by all manner of grassroots organisations , often as part of their struggle for political emancipation .
15 However , the view that there was a predestinarian orthodoxy in the Elizabethan church has been challenged by another group of historians , which includes Peter White , Kevin Sharpe , and George Bernard .
16 A motorist who went to the aid of a lorry driver whose vehicle was on fire has been killed by another vehicle which hit them from behind .
17 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 .
18 If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy .
19 1982 No. 1676 ) ) regulating the practice on appeal to the Judicial Committee , an appeal from the Court of Appeal of New Zealand can be entertained only if leave to appeal has been granted by that court or if special leave has been granted by Her Majesty in Council .
20 That is any auditor of an authorised institution incorporated in the U K. It also covers auditors of authorised institutions whose place of incorporation is outside the European community and who 's initial authorisation has been granted by another regulator , even though such auditors may be appointed under a foreign law .
21 She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems .
22 YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years .
23 Mr Rowland 's bitter campaign of vengeance has been driven by that affront .
24 Over the last 12 years , he claims , the council has been short-changed by that amount on its housing allocation demands .
25 The appeal was launched with the help of former patients whose recovery from terrible injuries has been helped by such treatment .
26 A large roadside car park has been made and from it a track has been worn to the saddle on the ridge ; the steep climb has been helped by this path formed since my first visit .
27 The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX .
28 In Chapter ii we found that a good deal of social science has been informed by this view ; but it is nevertheless natural to wonder why individualism should be excluded from the group of disciplines that aim to provide us with a grasp of the social world .
29 So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's .
30 ‘ We regret in respect of the national anthems our undertaking has been violated and breached and we apologise unconditionally to anyone who has been offended by this breach ’ .
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