Example sentences of "been [verb] by many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These disciplines have been joined by many others from different fields , from Law to Business Studies , to Social Administration , to Gender Studies , to Forestry , Religious Studies and Natural Resources . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The true facts of the matter have been clouded by many cases where the exact nature of the staccato did not greatly matter and where consequently Mozart made no deliberate effort to distinguish the two types . |
| 4 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 5 | Apart from the obvious benefits to those who , like myself , suffer with-gall stones , I was surprised to read so many other benefits to health that had been enjoyed by many volunteers . |
| 6 | Experiments aimed at investigating this issue have been reported by many workers ( e.g. Anderson , O'Farrell , Formica , and Caponigri 1969 ; Anderson , Wolf , and Sullivan 1969 ; Dexter and Merrill 1969 ; Bouton and Bolles 1979 ; Lovibond et al . |
| 7 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |
| 8 | The above equations ( 10.62,63 ) are exactly those for the vacuum Gowdy cosmologies that have been considered by many authors . |
| 9 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 10 | We have been approached by many members and friends who wish to contribute towards some form of memorial in thanksgiving for the life and work of our late founder and President Molly Braithwaite who died on 19th January this year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Video-tapes of searches have been made by many organizations and institutions of higher education . |
| 13 | That point has been made by many business organisations . |
| 14 | He has been seen by many vets , and a dermatologist , who have prescribed a range of treatments including antibiotics and anti-inflammatories . |
| 15 | This advocacy , he said , " has been seen by many countries as tainted with a political desire for delay in agreeing further emission reductions " . |
| 16 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |
| 17 | The Geneva Conference had been attended by many SE Asia countries who wished to see a split Vietnam . |
| 18 | It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For example , the idea of functional dispersal among a group of villages has been adopted in the structure plans for North Yorkshire , Gloucestershire and Cumbria , and a more flexible approach to allowing housing development outside key settlements has also been adopted by many counties ( Derounian 1980 ; J. M. Shaw 1982 ) . |
| 21 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 24 | The higher civil service has been accused by many writers of being a major cause of Britain 's weak economic performance [ Allen , 1976 ] . |
| 25 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 26 | It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning . |
| 27 | When it is said in Psalms that the enemies will be smitten in the ‘ hinder parts ’ it has been thought by many people to refer to haemorrhoids , but the description could equally refer to the anal manifestations of secondary syphilis , condylomata lata . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For instance most of this debate would not have been understood by many people in my parish . |
| 30 | 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 . |