Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 2 | So far the choice has been fudged by declared commitments to both EC technological collaboration and more competition . |
| 3 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 4 | Finally , inward investors find attractive the measures that we have taken to improve training and skills , almost every one of which has been opposed by Labour . |
| 5 | Scottish Office officials said yesterday that a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) could be operational by 1996 , although its creation has been opposed by 40 local authorities and six of the seven river purification boards . |
| 6 | this appearance has been explained by multiple tiny bubbles produced by rotation of the impeller . |
| 7 | Furthermore , its application to class differences has been recognised by many commentators , most notably in the work of Basil Bernstein ( 1971 ) on whom Greenfield leans heavily . |
| 8 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |
| 9 | The importance of accountability relationships to economic success has been recognised by those writers who point to the rise of the Japanese version of ‘ collective ’ capitalism . |
| 10 | The rape victim was able to give such a good description , that an artist 's impression has been recognised by several people . |
| 11 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 12 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 13 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 14 | Much has been written by social anthropologists against the materialist approaches in ethnographic analysis . |
| 15 | The book , entitled ‘ The Land of the Roe ’ , has been written by local school teacher Mr Samuel Mitchell and has been produced in association with Limavady Borough Council mainly as a resource for schools and colleges in the council area . |
| 16 | RE must endeavour to revive the natural awareness and sensitivity which most likely has been lost by middle junior school , and apply this recovered awareness to the religious vocabulary which pupils need to understand in order to make sense of religion . |
| 17 | Much has been lost by various people in many different ways . |
| 18 | We therefore conclude that an element important for neuronal-specific expression has been lost by this deletion and as a consequence that the transgene is more sensitive to position-effects . |
| 19 | In five out of the last seven years the success rate for this type of appeal has been the first or second highest for all categories and almost one in every two appeals has been lost by local authorities . |
| 20 | Mark Twain fancifully observed that God had modelled heaven on Mauritius , a thought which has been echoed by thousands of travellers who have since discovered the untapped beauty and raw charm of this lovely isle . |
| 21 | A man can enjoy outdoor exercise on all but five days in a year " [ and this ] has been echoed by most energetic Englishmen … |
| 22 | The plan has been finalised by high-ranking officials of the Environment Protection Agency , although EPA Administrator William K. Reilly is still said to be " looking at the options " himself . |
| 23 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 24 | Sarah Sabin , 27 , who has a studio in Trinity Street , Colchester , has been assisted by local people in creating a map of the area , including roads , buildings and other major landmarks . |
| 25 | Women often are as important as men in making and keeping these links , which is one reason why the importance of the kin network in employment frequently has been missed by other researchers , who have looked for people with the same surname . |
| 26 | A more optimistic note on house prices has been struck by big builders Wimpey . |
| 27 | Historically , as we have seen , the country has been rent by various upheavals , sometimes of a quite violent nature . |
| 28 | Royal Insurance has bought 75 IV workstations for its UK and Republic of Ireland branches and uses various programs , including Writing for Results , a guide to good business writing which has been developed by IIS . |
| 29 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 30 | A new instrument for measuring ozone levels in the air has been developed by Austrian scientists . |