Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 2 | With practice you can tell how long a site has been vacant by studying its flora , although the exact species vary from town to town . |
| 3 | If the reader has been disappointed by one , then he should try the other . |
| 4 | Anybody who supposes that the events of 1983 in the Caribbean have left the humbug of the Commonwealth unscathed is as self-deceived as those who imagine that the humbug of the United Nations has been unscathed by the events of 1982 in the South Atlantic . |
| 5 | The selection of paper and board manufacturers/retailers has been pre-selected by the magazine . |
| 6 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 7 | Each entry has been hand-crafted by a skilled specialist in lexical analysis . |
| 8 | His ‘ invention ’ , like that of hobbits , has been well-chronicled by Humphrey Carpenter ( Biography , pp. 64 and 172 ) ; the two cases are in several ways similar . |
| 9 | It has been alarmed by Mr Chatichai 's dream of turning Indochina ‘ from a battlefield into a marketplace ’ : this would end the army 's grip on the border trade . |
| 10 | Version 9 , Sun Microsystems Inc 's specification for the next generation of Sparc architecture , which includes 64-bit requirements , has been rubber-stamped by Amdahl Corp , Ericsson , Fujitsu Ltd , HaL Computer Systems , Hyundai , ICL , Interactive Systems , LSI Logic , Matsushita , Oracle Corp , Philips International , Ross Technology , Texas Instruments and Sun itself . |
| 11 | Faber has been delighted by the response from booksellers to its £100,000 ‘ How to become a millionaire ’ spring promotion . |
| 12 | However , in ‘ urban ’ and ‘ regional ’ studies , the issue of explanation for what has been prominent by its absence . |
| 13 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 14 | It is working closely with HSE , and has been impressed by the progress made since 1974 in moving towards a much more thorough understanding of the real reasons for major breaches of safety , and of how to make them less likely . |
| 15 | Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions . |
| 16 | The government is hoping for a vote of confidence in the elections , and has been dismayed by the support the Front appears to be getting . |
| 17 | Many a visitor has been embarrassed by the fact that Reykjavik airport is different from Keflavik . |
| 18 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |
| 19 | Delhi 's response has been complicated by the existence of the lame-duck Kashmiri state government of Dr Farooq Abdullah , who fought last month 's general election in alliance with the then governing Congress party , and which is deeply unpopular in the valley . |
| 20 | In Ireland , however , the position has been complicated by the failure of the attempted union with Britain . |
| 21 | The development of serological assays for antibody responses to H pylori antigens has been complicated by the fact that H pylori organisms share antigens with other bacterial species , such as Campylobacter jejuni . |
| 22 | The dispute has been complicated by tension between the federal Czechoslovak government and the Slovak government . |
| 23 | Other trends in the economy , investment for example , are encouraging , and productivity has been rapid by British standards . |
| 24 | Harriet and Adam 's success has been remarkable by anyone standards . |
| 25 | David Bishop , who switched from union in 1988 , has been transfer-listed by Hull KR . |
| 26 | KEVIN McKeever has been transfer-listed by Glentoran after less than a season at the Oval . |
| 27 | Kerr , 27 , has been transfer-listed by Millwall at his own request and plans to settle in the North-East during or after his playing career . |
| 28 | Because complementary medicine has been unacknowledged by conventional medicine ( and hence also by governments ) , relatively little systematic information has , until recently , been obtained about its impact on society . |
| 29 | The committee has been concerned by the high numbers of planning applications granted by six Welsh councils in defiance of published development plans . |
| 30 | Graham Greene does this so thoroughly that the country of his imagination has been dignified by the name of ‘ Greeneland ’ . |