Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The rape victim was able to give such a good description , that an artist 's impression has been recognised by several people . |
| 5 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 6 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A man can enjoy outdoor exercise on all but five days in a year " [ and this ] has been echoed by most energetic Englishmen … |
| 9 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists . |
| 12 | It is a stance which has been nurtured by several things , family bereavement and an intelligent , contemplative nature amongst them , but was perhaps most impelled by the experience of coaching in Bangladesh in the winter of 1989–90 . |
| 13 | Funding to the Energy Efficiency Office has been cut by half . |
| 14 | A clearing processing system has been adopted by each exchange for which LCH clears , except the metal exchange . |
| 15 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 16 | Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 18 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 19 | This flexible approach to arranging help for childcare has been adopted by several companies . |
| 20 | The reliability of the sedimentation tube methods , as determined by good reproducibility of results from repeated analysis of the same samples and by analysis of multiple sub-samples from individual sediments , has been recorded by many workers . |
| 21 | Er the erm er fact of the matter was that er er as has been recorded by those less emotionally charged at that moment , I did n't flounce out of the cabinet . |
| 22 | The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position . |
| 23 | I 'm delighted that justice has been done by that poor horse ) |
| 24 | This type of model has been implemented by many other large organizations including American Greeting Cards , Amoco Chemical Company , Atomic Energy of Canada , Bell Canada , Electronic Surveillance Command of the United States Air Force , North-western Bell , and Union Carbide . |
| 25 | In Britain , for example , the evolving structure of the financial markets has been characterised by both processes of deregulation and reregulation : the former , in that barriers which impede competition and choice have been discarded ; and the latter , in the sense that new regulatory measures have been adopted to cater for problems arising from structural changes . |
| 26 | This second year in the life of the Enterprise Centre has been characterised by both innovative ‘ pilot ’ programmes of enterprise work and by future development of initiatives commenced last year . |
| 27 | Education , in recent years , has been characterised by less rigidity , less concentration and greater opportunities for mobility , but all these features become more apparent higher up the educational pyramid . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the British Red Cross has been contacted by many people across the region offering accommdation and help if more wounded from the former Yugoslavia are brought here in future . |
| 29 | The unchanging , unknowable , eternal wellspring of that energy has been called by many names in many civilisations : Brahman , Allah , God , The Absolute , to name a few . |
| 30 | Sport has been called by many , including such opposing writers as Robert Boyle ( 1963 ) and Paul Hoch ( 1972 ) , a ‘ mirror ’ reflecting , in often exaggerated ways , aspects of social life . |