Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [be] raised " in BNC.
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| 1 | Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime . |
| 2 | ( Such a theory involved denying the claims of James 's son , but doubts had been raised as to whether the Queen had really conceived the child , it being widely believed that the baby had been smuggled into the bed-chamber in a warming-pan . ) |
| 3 | The two English ladies , they explained , had had a most regrettable , a most serious disagreement , during which voices had been raised and charges of murder , yes , murder , had been uttered . |
| 4 | The minimum threshold for parties to win seats had been raised since the 1988 election from 1 to 1.5 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | At the time the analysts and the client were somewhat concerned that it was not practicable to implement fully either of the FAOR technical solutions , as expectations had been raised about the final outcome before the implications of these solutions were known in any detail . |
| 6 | The Revenue said questions had been raised about whether these assets qualified for deferral if all other conditions were met and , while it could be argued they lie outside the scope of the provisions , ‘ the better view was that they are within them ’ . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister was also questioned once again about his role in the Recruit-Cosmos scandal which had forced his resignation as Finance Minister in 1988 [ see p. 36463 ] , but about which new questions had been raised in December 1991 . |
| 8 | The senior component of what became The East Surrey Regiment under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms had been raised in Huntingdonshire in 1702 as The 31st Regiment of Foot . |
| 9 | Mr Ryan declined to name the embassies or the foreign countries he had approached or to specify what sums had been raised . |
| 10 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 11 | Those customers still paying peanuts for their waste disposal may one day wish prices had been raised moderately against them now rather than slammed up later . |
| 12 | The place was as it had always been , a downland in miniature , a terrain of small green hills on which little dolmens had been raised , pink granite , white marble , a slab or two of grey stone . |
| 13 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 14 | President Vaclav Havel referred to a smear campaign against Vales , whose alleged associations with the former Communist secret police had been raised repeatedly by parliamentary deputies and journalists , although no concrete evidence had been published . |
| 15 | Whether these children had been raised by wolves or simply abandoned and left to their own devices in the forest is unclear . |
| 16 | Most of the points had been raised before and those which had not been raised most certainly could have been . |
| 17 | His hesitation created disillusionment among the blacks whose hopes had been raised by Kennedy 's election . |