Example sentences of "been the [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent relevant development has been the decision by the House of Lords and a lower court to refer the relevant questions of Community law to the European Court . |
| 2 | In fact , the more economical methods may have led to stronger liquors being discharged because the water has been the vehicle by which unwanted impurities have been removed from the textiles and put down the drain . |
| 3 | One of the more interesting of recent developments has been the initiation by large firms of local compact schemes whereby they , as employers , guarantee to provide employment for young people leaving local YTS schemes , providing the graduates have gained a predetermined qualification . |
| 4 | The fuel for this growth has been the demand by users to share applications and data , and to connect disparate information systems and environments , rather than computing in isolation . |
| 5 | The most significant welfare change , both in terms of numbers of people affected and the sum saved in public expenditure , has been the method by which this Government has calculated increases in social security . |
| 6 | What has been the reaction by C&P employees to the quality improvement process ? |
| 7 | A major reason for this has been the move by customers away from cash transactions to cheque and credit card transactions . |
| 8 | As many search consultants were to become after him , Boyden had been the instrument by which a group of directors had removed an unwanted leader . |
| 9 | A key aspect for the Bundesbank will have been the acceptance by the unions of the need for moderate pay increases in order to prevent the slide into an inflationary spiral . |
| 10 | The essence of the prosecution case would have been the use by the respondent of excessive force towards two members of the family of the Murphy brothers in the course of removing them from the vicinity of a police van into which the brothers were being placed . |
| 11 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 12 | In both railways , the machinery has been the means by which the unions have come to exert a profound influence over the conduct of railway activities . |