Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 2 | And surviving missals and other documents of the Celtic Church prove to be riddled with excerpts from Judaic apocryphal books and additional texts which had long and rigorously been forbidden by Rome . |
| 3 | Such risks have rarely been emphasised by telephone salesmen at Harvard and elsewhere , except through the compulsory wealth warnings stamped on all Harvard 's contract notes . |
| 4 | For example , they have found that " there is considerable evidence that attitudes to comfort are important in estimating the user 's contribution to conservation … yet these have rarely been explored by research on the effects of feedback " . |
| 5 | This view has rarely been developed by Freud 's critics . |
| 6 | The Corporation of the City of London had long maintained a non-denominational burial ground , though it had predominantly been used by Dissenters . |
| 7 | Sovereignty over the strategically important peninsula of Gibraltar was granted to the United Kingdom by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht but this has since been disputed by Spain . |
| 8 | It served , however only to churn up the sodden land , whose drainage system had long since been destroyed by years of artillery fire , into a vast morass of craters filled with water , through which the British were expected to advance . |
| 9 | It has since been followed by D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles ' The Media Centre and Collett Dickenson Pearce 's CDP Media . |
| 10 | Some of the changes affecting Liphook were announced by county councillor David Clark at the recent annual parish meeting and others have since been confirmed by HCC transport officials . |
| 11 | Morocco immediately occupied the area and has since been harassed by Polisario guerrillas on a broad front in Western Sahara and also inside Morocco proper . |
| 12 | Even during the All Black tour of South Africa Ant Strachan , the surprise-packet of an All Black halfback this year , realised he was not likely to displace Jason Hewett , the World Cup no.2 halfback who has since been rejected by Mains and his selectors , from the Auckland position . |
| 13 | He has since been sacked by Nalgo and has debts of £10,000 . |
| 14 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 15 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 16 | He acquired the rudiments of the game in a tougher prep school than many of his Western contemporaries who have long since been cosseted by snooker 's new-found respectability . |
| 17 | Mark has since been accused by New Zealand teacher Heather Tonkin of being the father of her six-year-old daughter , though he has denied paternity . |
| 18 | Higher readings than expected have since been found by monitors along the coastline near Sellafield , and even in the dust inside seaside houses . |
| 19 | He has since been praised by managers at his new job with Smith 's Dry Cleaners for his honesty . |
| 20 | Many were built as focal points of vistas that have since been obscured by trees ; others stood in the centre of a grove of trees . |
| 21 | The crucial moment when children realise that their parents are younger than they are had long since been passed by Martha . |
| 22 | Interactive shared development of the product with Segue Software Inc , Santa Monica , and launched the product back in 1990 ( UX No 281,285 ) for Intel-based machines , with Peter Norton Computing taking royalties ( Norton has since been acquired by Symantec Corp , Cupertino , California ) . |
| 23 | BARNSLEY HOUSE GARDEN Barnsley , Nr Cirencester , Gloucestershire The original garden at Barnsley was laid out in 1770 and has since been replanted by Rosemary Verey . |
| 24 | and has since been paid by Col. Roberts . |
| 25 | Nevertheless I have since been informed by Richard Buckley that ( if the concept is not entirely meaningless in the circumstances ) the Co-op gives ‘ the best value for money ’ , in terms of materials used in their coffins and the general finish and quality of the handles and name-plate etc . |
| 26 | Another outstanding Box feature was SIMON AND LAURA ( 1956 ) a comedy about live television production starring Kay Kendall and Peter Finch whose wit and sharpness has not since been rivalled by films on similar themes . |
| 27 | Commentators noted that the leadership restructuring was likely in practice to curtail still further the role of both the politburo and central committee in influencing state policy ( already the politburo had effectively been supplanted by Gorbachev 's new Presidential Council — see pp. 37298-99 ) . |
| 28 | And we 've all been in situations where we 've walked into an area , whether it be , sort of a car park is poorly lit , or you 've gone down a lane that 's perhaps been overgrown by bushes and things like that we generally do n't feel as confident . |
| 29 | The directive , which had hitherto been opposed by West Germany , Greece and Spain , was due to come into effect at the end of 1994 ; the Commission aimed to reach agreement on a single passport for insurance companies during 1990 . |
| 30 | The discovery of chemical substitutes led to the founding of a dyestuffs industry and helped the mills develop into extended factory production , gradually mechanizing processes which had hitherto been done by outworkers in their own homes . |