"have been shadowed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is the past tense passive form of the verb "to shadow," meaning to follow or watch closely. Example: The private investigator revealed that the CEO had been shadowed by a suspicious individual for weeks before the company's financial data was leaked.
The budget negotiations have been shadowed by the question of compliance with the court order on education.
The box office may have remained robust, but all year the enterprise of moviemaking and the practice of movie watching have been shadowed by fatigue and irrelevance.
Armstrong, whose triumphs have been shadowed by doping allegations, subsequently called Simeoni a liar in a French newspaper interview in 2003.
It is a book that should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States' quick military victory has given way to an increasingly virulent insurgency and nearly daily reports of car bombings and suicide attacks, why even post-election hopes have been shadowed by worries about the continuing violence spiraling into a Lebanon-style civil war.
However, still missing is a comparably good set of records of less intense effects (<6 EMS98), which either were not considered worth reporting by contemporary observers, or simply have been shadowed by those who left testimonies on the heavily struck places.
To complicate matters further, in his version of events, Robert claims also to have been shadowed and sometimes impersonated by a mysterious, charismatic figure who calls himself Gil-Martin.
We have been shadowing the Carnegie medal and are eagerly waiting to hear who has won.
That night, two enigmatic Spaniards who have been shadowing him all day offer him an envelope of cash if he will refuse to treat Vallejo.
A small number of users in Ireland have been "shadow banned" by the site's moderators after pro-choice tweeters complained about their posts.
In recent weeks, business executives have been shadowing educators and school administrators to observe and share strategies under a program sponsored by the Long Island Works Coalition.
