Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , one member of the joint traffic management sub-committee who has been closely associated with all of these three issues is county councillor Tony and I must say , Mr Mayor that I am surprised to say the least by the way in which councillor appears appears to have been treated by some members of the labour party in this city . |
| 2 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 3 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 4 | The British Isles have been conquered by all manner of people from the Vikings , to the Picts , the Celts , the Saxons , the Romans and the Normans . |
| 5 | An appeal by the Chairman to chambers for extra pupillage places was undertaken during May after a questionnaire had been completed by all students of the Inns of Court School of Law regarding their pupillage position . |
| 6 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 7 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 8 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 9 | In fact , modern biblical scholars concur that the letter ascribed to Jude is of too late a date to have been written by any contemporary of Jesus . |
| 10 | The source at the magazine confirmed later : ‘ Paris Match has been approached and pictures of that nature have been seen by some members of staff . |
| 11 | Moreover , the instinctual ( or ‘ drive reduction ’ ) model has been embraced by all shades of opinion , from the conservative moralist anxious to control this unruly force to the Freudian left ( Wilhelm Reich , Herbert Marcuse , Erich Fromm ) wanting to ‘ liberate ’ sexuality from its capitalist and patriarchal constraints . |
| 12 | The nominal differences in real social product per head , therefore , have been corrected by this set of estimates to yield the figures in column ( 2 ) of the table . |
| 13 | The higher civil service has been accused by many writers of being a major cause of Britain 's weak economic performance [ Allen , 1976 ] . |
| 14 | Marlborough 's art work has been accused by some critics of being too prescribed , a charge Robin Child refutes , insisting that ‘ there has to be a starting point , a language learnt ’ . |
| 15 | He admitted that the company had been accused by some customers of sexism , but rejected the criticism . |
| 16 | The door had been opened by some sort of electric release , but two Negro footmen in grey silk — complete with stockings — stood inside the door and said , ‘ Good evening , sir , ’ in unison . |
| 17 | I wished to make the simple point that the Labour party 's ’ Fair Rates ’ document makes no reference to students , and to add that , in my view , our proposals offer students the best deal that they have been offered by any system of local finance . |
| 18 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 19 | This notion has been challenged by all manner of grassroots organisations , often as part of their struggle for political emancipation . |
| 20 | However , the view that there was a predestinarian orthodoxy in the Elizabethan church has been challenged by another group of historians , which includes Peter White , Kevin Sharpe , and George Bernard . |
| 21 | Older fans have been irked by this change of direction . |
| 22 | The larger part at the front often opens directly onto the street , but may have been protected by some form of veranda . |
| 23 | Erm and and I know you I 'm not expecting you to comment on your colleagues , but let me quote something else that Peter Lilley said , The massive expansion of the welfare state since the war , has not been accompanied by any diminution of social problems . |
| 24 | But both overlook the important point that while there is an apparent shift away from the limiting aim of integrating the archaeological and historical data , this has not been accompanied by any reassessment of the appropriate aims and methods of studying the archaeology . |
| 25 | Developments in the reform of children 's services do not appear to have been influenced by this body of knowledge to the same extent as the reforms of ‘ adult services ’ . |
| 26 | The old quarrel , sprung from a tract of land in dispute , had been fomented by many acts of hostility since . |
| 27 | They have been supported by both sides of the House for many years . |
| 28 | Traditionally , the Aquino presidency has also been supported by those elements of the PDP-Laban Party ( Aquilino Pimentel ch. ) which chose to remain outside the LDP ; and the bulk of the Liberal Party ( established in 1946 , but split in 1988 when supporters of Kalaw joined the GAD — see below — Jose ( Jovito ) Salonga l . ) . |
| 29 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 30 | ‘ It could have been caused by some sort of disaster or accident . |