Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 2 | The aid agencies working there decided not to publicise the report , which has since been backed up by an internal report by Robert Ash , a senior UNHCR official . |
| 3 | Derek Casey , the Council 's director of national services , said : ‘ A six-man emergency committee has since been set up by the ABA and major changes and re-structuring , which we think are absolutely essential for the future of amateur boxing , are now being made . |
| 4 | EASING London 's increasing traffic congestion by means of road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson . |
| 5 | Easing London 's increasing traffic congestion by road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson who told the Commons transport committee that it would be impractical . |
| 6 | The first has effectively been ruled out by the odd admission by the federalists , and has been dealt with earlier . |
| 7 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
| 8 | ‘ Remember , ’ I reminded him , ‘ that his foot has only been held up by the pressure of that piece of wood . |
| 9 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 10 | The advent of mass unemployment has largely been brought about by the destruction of full-time jobs in manufacturing industry : a fall of 2 million since 1979 ( Hansard , 30 November 1987 , col. 398 ) . |
| 11 | Losing Out maintains that the widening of class differences along a whole front has largely been brought about by the Government 's ‘ success , in redistributing income and wealth towards the haves to the exclusion of the have-nots , and that this widening of class differences is playing a crucial role in the emergence of an underclass in Britain . |
| 12 | At a time when football — our so-called national game — has finally been sold out by its organisers to big-money TV , rugby league should be attempting to woo its support . |
| 13 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
| 14 | This hotel has just been taken over by Herr and Frau Sulzur , and already there is a friendly atmosphere . |
| 15 | Giggs , United 's 19-year-old wonderkid , has already been singled out by AC Milan as their top British target . |
| 16 | This has already been pointed out by Hoffman but his advice has been ignored . |
| 17 | The synapsis of sign has already been pointed out by Hirtle ( 1967 : 21 ) , but the reason suggested for it — namely , that the infinitive has the meaning " event time not yet actualized " and the non-past indicative implies " event in the not yet stretch of universe time " — will have to be re-examined . |
| 18 | Gardeners with bad backs will be rushing to buy the Leaf-Lifter , a vacuum cleaner that sucks up autumn leaves directly into disposable bags — it has already been snapped up by a company wanting to market it . |
| 19 | The third market has already been sorted out by closing it down ; now is the time for an equally drastic solution for these untraded quoted shares . |
| 20 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 21 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 22 | Macedonia , lying across the southern end of the Vardar-Morava corridor which connects the central Danubian lowlands to the Aegean coasts , has always been fought over by rival powers . |
| 23 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 24 | Criticism of alleged ‘ foreign interference ’ by Western embassies and news organisations in Burmese affairs has also been stepped up by the military . |
| 25 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 26 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |
| 27 | This theme has also been taken up by a new Member who recently made a substantial contribution to the constitutional debate , Ian Duncan Smith , Member for Chingford . |
| 28 | The program has also been speeded up by increasing the re-draw performance by around 25% . |
| 29 | It has often been pointed out by commentators that there is an ambiguity in Tocqueville 's discussion . |
| 30 | The work on income and old age is by Angela Dale , while that on service provision has mainly been carried out by Sara Arber . |