Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point I think that has to be understood about EuroDisney , which perhaps has n't been properly perceived yet by the public is that it is very much a destination for the British public . |
| 2 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 3 | Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year . |
| 4 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 5 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 6 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 7 | The Labour Party course has been deliberately misrepresented both by the government and by much of the press . |
| 8 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 9 | These have been partly filled in by the composer himself , but though the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival is included , neither ‘ When I have often heard ’ nor ‘ O let me weep ’ [ the famous Plaint ] … is to be found in it . |
| 10 | It also has to be said that the number of residencies and placements have been severely curtailed recently by the cost-saving measures of many authorities and organisations . |
| 11 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |
| 12 | SINCE Raymond Fletcher and David Howes joined forces nine volumes ago the game has been well served statistically by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook , and the standard remains impressively high . |
| 13 | And now it 's been lovingly found again by the management of the hotel to welcome him . |
| 14 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 15 | ‘ The proposals have been fully thought through by the local education authority , the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool and Roman Catholic Archdiocese . |
| 16 | Millions of mothers have been shamefully let down by the government which , 13 years ago under Margaret Thatcher , promised a nursery place for every child who wanted one . |
| 17 | In the early 1960s the American containment ring around the Soviet bloc had been seriously breached only by the Soviet acquisition of military facilities in Cuba . |
| 18 | I shall , however , be content for the purpose of this appeal to adopt the narrow approach , which avoids the need to discuss the proper scope of the rule , a point which has not been argued before your Lordships and has hitherto been seriously discussed only by the academic writers . |
| 19 | Mrs. Mott had been very put out by the long time the builders had stayed in the hall ; the chattering of the girls was the final straw . |
| 20 | A fortnight ago , she had been too taken aback by the idea to absorb what it could imply , but before anything was fixed there were matters which she and Vitor must discuss , parameters to be defined , agreements which needed to be cut and dried . |