Example sentences of "have been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stone had belatedly launched a publicity campaign at the end of January , claiming that it would adopt " environmentally-sound " , labour intensive logging techniques , and reforest areas which have been cleared by slash-and-burn farmers . |
| 2 | All these movements have had before them as a model the existing nation states , and have been influenced by nationalist ideas already formulated and widely disseminated . |
| 3 | Since the mid-1980s when the satanic child abuse scare first came to Britain , it seems that many workers within Social Services in particular have been influenced by this thinking . |
| 4 | Koriyama Museum 's collection will also include Japanese artists who have studied art in England and have been influenced by British art as well as local artists ' work . |
| 5 | Many cultural historians have too readily appropriated literary writing as cultural documents , subduing the problems about what language actually represents which have been examined by other forms of theoretical inquiry , notably deconstruction . |
| 6 | The varied forms in which status is available have been recognised by social controllers , and have made them wary of too much reliance on stigmatisation : conventional stigma can provide deviant status . |
| 7 | Refunds will NOT be made where such charges have been levied by non-bank bureaux de change . |
| 8 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 9 | These issues have been debated by American feminists like Linda Nicholson , Nancy Fraser , Christine di Stefano in much the same terms already , and there have been special issues of the journals Feminist Studies and Signs on the topic . |
| 10 | Precedents which have been overruled by later decisions at a higher level . |
| 11 | Maps that use these peculiar motions to build up pictures of the amount of matter in space have been prepared by various researchers over the past year or so . |
| 12 | Thus responsibility for the discharged patient often ends up with the GP , whether this outcome is planned or not , and few GPs have been prepared by vocational training for a more involved role in community care services . |
| 13 | Three adults who have been prepared by this group will be received into the Church at the Easter Vigil . |
| 14 | Most of the attention , however , was focused on the nine days ahead of battling over the direction of economic reform in Russia and over a new constitution , several drafts of which have been prepared by different factions . |
| 15 | All the plans have been prepared by top garden designers at Individual Gardens Ltd , whose managing director David Stevens designed the award winning B and Q garden at this years Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 16 | Many ‘ designer ’ potatoes , elegant , expensive and almost extinct , have been reprieved by public interest and a certain novelty value . |
| 17 | Financial problems have been compounded by lower sales in the Pronuptia-Youngs division . |
| 18 | Grants to help offset the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by volunteers in geological conservation work have been announced by English Nature — the English branch of the now disbanded Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 19 | I understand that 500 jobs losses have been announced by Bass breweries today . |
| 20 | Only a handful of T&S outlets have been affected by Sunday-trading supermarkets , he said . |
| 21 | Safety officials at the Harwell laboratory near Didcot are denying staff have been affected by radio-active contamination following a recent accident . |
| 22 | A sector which is under pressure from imports may seek voluntary export restraints on the part of the foreign suppliers ( a wide range of Japanese exports to the United States have been affected by such agreements ) . |
| 23 | Thus the perceptions of older people themselves concerning old age , as well as the rest of society , have been affected by age-based retirement and pension policies . |
| 24 | Field and moorland alike have been affected by deliberate management . |
| 25 | Part of the explanation lies in the succession of downward revisions that have had to be made to Pearson 's 1992 profits , which have been affected by several disappointments , predominantly among the non-publishing divisions . |
| 26 | A later related study will deal with the more specialised question of how involvement in unionism may be changing in sunrise firms , and how employee relations have been affected by different management strategies . |
| 27 | Burberrys ' UK stores have been affected by declining numbers of tourists during the recession though parent company Great Universal Stores , which also owns upmarket woollen goods chain Scotch House , returned increased profits overall in 1991 . |
| 28 | Most of us listened carefully to those hon. Members whose constituencies have been affected by this hooliganism — the hon. Members for Tyne Bridge ( Mr. Clelland ) , for Wansbeck ( Mr. Thompson ) and for Hartlepool ( Mr. Leadbitter ) . |
| 29 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
| 30 | Sales of luggage and leather goods have been affected by difficult market conditions , notably in Japan , but their overall profitability has been maintained . |