Example sentences of "have been [verb] by [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rape victim was able to give such a good description , that an artist 's impression has been recognised by several people . |
| 2 | Much has been lost by various people in many different ways . |
| 3 | Sarah Sabin , 27 , who has a studio in Trinity Street , Colchester , has been assisted by local people in creating a map of the area , including roads , buildings and other major landmarks . |
| 4 | Public sector housing investment has been cut by seventy percent . |
| 5 | The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the British Red Cross has been contacted by many people across the region offering accommdation and help if more wounded from the former Yugoslavia are brought here in future . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We are worried about compensation claims from passive smokers whose health has been damaged by other people 's bad habits , ’ said councillor Frank Anderson . |
| 9 | Aware that society has been constructed by able-bodied people in ways which serve and perpetuate their own interests , these people have used our consequential marginalisation and dependence not as a starting-point for developing with us a struggle for social change and equal opportunities , but as a handy and convenient fact to justify the development of all the inappropriate disability services with which we are now so familiar . |
| 10 | And has been said by several people who are here . |
| 11 | The region , which as a whole has been elevated by 1000–2000 m , has a fault-generated relief of up to 4000 m comprising uplifted mountain blocks and intervening basins ( Fig. 3.10 ) . |
| 12 | The 6 March letter attached great importance to the boundaries of the USSR on 1 September 1939 , but here it appears that the date 1938 has been selected by 5 Corps on a rough-and-ready basis , simply to indicate " pre-war " and without reference to any known precedent . |
| 13 | An elaborate fraud has been uncovered by sharp-eyed staff sifting through student paperwork . |
| 14 | — it could be used to present language — either for the introduction of new areas of language or to supplement what has been taught by other means and methods ; |
| 15 | When it is said in Psalms that the enemies will be smitten in the ‘ hinder parts ’ it has been thought by many people to refer to haemorrhoids , but the description could equally refer to the anal manifestations of secondary syphilis , condylomata lata . |
| 16 | It has been signed by 5,851 people . |
| 17 | Coal names : A Coal Not Dole petition at the Liscard Shopping Centre has been signed by 3,000 people . |
| 18 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
| 19 | The term ’ perceptron ’ has been used by different people to mean different things , but its definition seems to have stabilised by now . |
| 20 | Much legislation to control pollution has been triggered by ordinary people but even if that does n't happen , acting on your fears can make you feel less helpless . |
| 21 | Helium ( He ) has been detected by spacecraft though it has such a weak spectral signature that its abundance has been estimated by indirect means . |
| 22 | The management has been restructured and refocused with responsibilities clearly defined , the annual cost base of the business has been reduced by some £280,000 , and marketing plans are currently being put in place for next year . |
| 23 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 24 | For instance most of this debate would not have been understood by many people in my parish . |
| 25 | Whilst some of these drugs may have been obtained by illegal means , the evidence suggests that a significant minority became addicted to opioids originating from a legal source , that is , family practitioners . |
| 26 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 27 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 28 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 29 | At one time — probably at any time between the Restoration and , for a terminal date , the Second World War — those questions might have been rejected by literate folk as quite foolish and empty ; because Horace has been , after all , almost an honorary Briton , so pervasive is his cultural presence . |
| 30 | At the touch of a button , the metallic strip on an identity card will surrender every scrap of information about us stored by any government department , as well as whatever ‘ confidential ’ and uncheckable information may have been collected by secret means . |