Example sentences of "have been [verb] by [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial problems have been compounded by lower sales in the Pronuptia-Youngs division . |
| 2 | Questions have been raised by some people as to the theatrical validity and ethics of Weller 's methods — putting people on stage to recreate their own real-life experiences . |
| 3 | Millions of pounds have been given by ordinary people in response to appeals for help . |
| 4 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 5 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 6 | Quite a number of endangered buildings have been saved by local people who have set up a building preservation trust , acquired the building , restored it and sometimes resold it . |
| 7 | ‘ Yet again the depths of depravity have been plumbed by these people . |
| 8 | Microwaves have been adopted by busy people up and down the country . |
| 9 | The Darwinians were also impressed with the discovery by Henry Walter Bates ( 1825–92 ) of a new kind of mimicry in South American insects , where an edible species copies the warning colours that have been developed by another species that is distasteful to birds . |
| 10 | Let us also celebrate and exploit the opportunities that have been created by new media , and ensure that bookshops are seen as the distribution channel of choice , and that we do all we can to make the book the natural bedfellow of these emerging products . |
| 11 | Also ships carrying dangerous cargoes in sensitive waters , for example an area similar to where the went ashore or perhaps the Dover Straits where cargo collisions have been reduced by eighty percent since radar surveillance was introduced . |
| 12 | The realisation is increasingly coming to planners and administrators that many so-called rural problems and their solutions have been identified by urban-orientated people , or indeed may largely be created by the effects of urban based interests and decisions . |
| 13 | The bonds , which offer a fixed rate return for a stated period subject generally to some conditions , have been marketed by some sales agents as an alternative to building society deposit accounts . |
| 14 | These will only be changed if the chemical composition is such as to ease crystallization or if the chains have been oriented by some means so that considerable anisotropy is present . |
| 15 | The equatorial and polar radii have been measured by various means and correspond to some level above the cloud tops . |