Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] [vb pp] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of the getaway car had been noted by witnesses and car itself was found abandoned nearby . |
| 2 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 3 | Thomas Linehan of the IDA stated in court that a fencing contractor had been warned by pickets at the dump , one carrying a sign reading ‘ We want justice not asbestos ’ , not to go on the site or there would be trouble . |
| 4 | One long green stretch had been named by airmen familiar with this route ‘ The Million Dollar Valley ’ . |
| 5 | Quite simply , the movie had been overtaken by events . |
| 6 | Crime had been portrayed by positivists as a pathology , requiring the application of psychological or sociological technology to put it right ; criminals were seen as a kind of societal waste product requiring hygienic processing . |
| 7 | Although some reports suggested that the need for a smaller force had been dictated by plans to reduce NATO forces by up to 30 per cent by the mid-1990s , a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting said that defence spending in real terms " should not be expected to reduce substantially in the near term " . |
| 8 | Already , by February , the unity of the committee had been disrupted by disputes over the incursion of some of its leading members into politics during the Stormont general election . |
| 9 | Up until that time much of the work in steel-making had been done by individuals or groups of steel-making master craftsmen on a jobbing or sub-contracting basis . |
| 10 | By now , probably half the small ads in the current issue had been placed by aliens . |
| 11 | A debate on the issue had been prompted by strikes by teachers and students in higher education , calling for greater democracy and improved working conditions . |
| 12 | Enforcement , such as it was , consisted largely of the rights of borrowers ( or , in practice much more often , lenders ) to sue in the courts ; and the rights of borrowers , if sued , to claim that the law had been breached by lenders . |
| 13 | Other reports indicated that the proposed law had been prompted by fears that recent events in Algeria would encourage Islamist parties , who won one-third of the seats in parliamentary elections held in November 1989 [ see pp. 37052-53 ] , to mount an extra-parliamentary challenge . |
| 14 | A British Airways spokeswoman said the damaged windscreen had been removed by engineers and taken away for examination . |
| 15 | He was also well versed about historic homes , in many of which he had stayed , an interest he shared with Roddy , who even as a boy had been fascinated by pictures and architecture . |
| 16 | The company admitted responsibility , but managing director Peter Barrell said the gauge had been damaged by trespassers . |
| 17 | Bone marrow is the source of immune system cells , and the transplant of new marrow was given after the patient 's own bone marrow had been destroyed by doses of radiation and chemotherapy . |
| 18 | Somebody said the girl had been taken by Chiricahuas on a raid and held four or five weeks before a patrol out of Fort Thomas surprised their rancheria and found her . |
| 19 | But this was not the approach where security had been given by wives in support of their husbands . |
| 20 | Napier complained that this post had been solicited by friends on his behalf , acting in the belief |
| 21 | However , during a visit to the spill site on Jan. 2 , the French Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , said that the delay in managing the crisis had been caused by days of " haggling " between the Iranian government and the Dutch company over fees to be charged for the salvage operation . |
| 22 | The move had been preceded by police visits to the printers of It , Oz , and Rolling Stone . |
| 23 | The national radio , Voix du Zaïre , reported that in Kinshasa on April 10 a peaceful student demonstration calling for a national conference had been dispersed by troops using tear gas . |
| 24 | But the alternative — to have him believing her poor showing had been caused by drugs , was equally untenable . |
| 25 | Once the body had been viewed by members of the Privy Council and others to confirm that life had ceased and that the king was dead , word went out to summon the surgeons , apothecaries and wax chandlers ‘ to do their duties in spurging , cleansing , bowelling , searing , embalming , furnishing and dressing with spices the said corpse ’ . |
| 26 | Twenty minutes later the band had been augmented by violins and drums , and several new girls had joined the party . |
| 27 | It was feared that the bomb had been planted by terrorists and residents of Fairfield , Liverpool were evacuated . |
| 28 | It was at first feared that the car bomb had been planted by terrorists and nearby residents in the Liverpool suburb were evacuated while Army bomb disposal experts examined the scene . |
| 29 | He denied that his departure had been prompted by disagreements with other senior staff . |
| 30 | The outcry over declining profit margins seems to show that British commercial enterprise had been sapped by decades of trading on advantageous terms as the only great exporter of manufactured goods . |