Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Stone had belatedly launched a publicity campaign at the end of January , claiming that it would adopt " environmentally-sound " , labour intensive logging techniques , and reforest areas which have been cleared by slash-and-burn farmers . |
2 | All these movements have had before them as a model the existing nation states , and have been influenced by nationalist ideas already formulated and widely disseminated . |
3 | Most of the views dealt with in the following sections have been influenced by Marxist or Weberian theories of stratification . |
4 | Koriyama Museum 's collection will also include Japanese artists who have studied art in England and have been influenced by British art as well as local artists ' work . |
5 | Many cultural historians have too readily appropriated literary writing as cultural documents , subduing the problems about what language actually represents which have been examined by other forms of theoretical inquiry , notably deconstruction . |
6 | The varied forms in which status is available have been recognised by social controllers , and have made them wary of too much reliance on stigmatisation : conventional stigma can provide deviant status . |
7 | Refunds will NOT be made where such charges have been levied by non-bank bureaux de change . |
8 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
9 | These issues have been debated by American feminists like Linda Nicholson , Nancy Fraser , Christine di Stefano in much the same terms already , and there have been special issues of the journals Feminist Studies and Signs on the topic . |
10 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
11 | Maps that use these peculiar motions to build up pictures of the amount of matter in space have been prepared by various researchers over the past year or so . |
12 | Thus responsibility for the discharged patient often ends up with the GP , whether this outcome is planned or not , and few GPs have been prepared by vocational training for a more involved role in community care services . |
13 | Most of the attention , however , was focused on the nine days ahead of battling over the direction of economic reform in Russia and over a new constitution , several drafts of which have been prepared by different factions . |
14 | All the plans have been prepared by top garden designers at Individual Gardens Ltd , whose managing director David Stevens designed the award winning B and Q garden at this years Chelsea Flower Show . |
15 | Many ‘ designer ’ potatoes , elegant , expensive and almost extinct , have been reprieved by public interest and a certain novelty value . |
16 | A rather more realistic approach would be to point out that there are certain conventions which have been imposed by traditional working methods . |
17 | Although functionalism has often been attacked as a conservative sociological tradition , some of its terminology and certain aspects of its analysis have been appropriated by Marxist and radical theorists . |
18 | Grants to help offset the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by volunteers in geological conservation work have been announced by English Nature — the English branch of the now disbanded Nature Conservancy Council . |
19 | I understand that 500 jobs losses have been announced by Bass breweries today . |
20 | Only a handful of T&S outlets have been affected by Sunday-trading supermarkets , he said . |
21 | Safety officials at the Harwell laboratory near Didcot are denying staff have been affected by radio-active contamination following a recent accident . |
22 | Carboniferous sediments have been affected by low-amplitude Hercynian folding , Mesozoic rift faulting and Cretaceous inversion-related compression and fault re-activation . |
23 | Thus the perceptions of older people themselves concerning old age , as well as the rest of society , have been affected by age-based retirement and pension policies . |
24 | Field and moorland alike have been affected by deliberate management . |
25 | A later related study will deal with the more specialised question of how involvement in unionism may be changing in sunrise firms , and how employee relations have been affected by different management strategies . |
26 | Burberrys ' UK stores have been affected by declining numbers of tourists during the recession though parent company Great Universal Stores , which also owns upmarket woollen goods chain Scotch House , returned increased profits overall in 1991 . |
27 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
28 | Sales of luggage and leather goods have been affected by difficult market conditions , notably in Japan , but their overall profitability has been maintained . |
29 | The concern of Marland ( 1986 ) and Tickle ( 1987 ) about the lack of research quoted earlier is one of the signs of how the arts are being starved of funds whilst other curriculum areas , most notably the development of the ‘ balanced science ’ curriculum programme through the Secondary Science Review ( Association for Science Education , 1987 ) , have been aided by ethnographic research supported by the DES . |
30 | The Empire has laws which forbid contact with planets which have been contaminated by certain substances . |