Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [vb pp] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My knowledge of this period of history is rather hazy so I am not going to make an issue of it either way , for the simple reason which I suspect is shared by many of you , that I do n't care . |
| 2 | I 'm delighted it it 's a Conservative erm er resol er erm amendment that I think is agreed by all the council . |
| 3 | In the past year I 've been invited by many of you to meet branch members and to make shop visits all over the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Perhaps I 've been infected by those damned journalists . ’ |
| 5 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 6 | I have been sought by this remarkably beautiful creature who is offering herself to me … |
| 7 | I have been asked by several Society members what it was like to take a ride on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and the best description that I know of is the account by the late Sir Jasper More in his book , ‘ A TALE OF TWO HOUSES ’ , published by Sir Jasper in 1978 . |
| 8 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 9 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 10 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 11 | All mail received in respect of the children to whom you refer was sent by this office to workers involved directly with the children . |
| 12 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 13 | She had thought her daughter was pure and good , and she had been gratified by that . |
| 14 | She had been guaranteed by several people and entered Michael Hall School . |
| 15 | You have been struck by some particular type of person and have found a plausible set of circumstances in which a person of that type would commit a murder . |
| 16 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 17 | ‘ And you have been persuaded by these arguments ? ’ |
| 18 | She 's been reduced by this encounter , Lee was thinking . |
| 19 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 20 | It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 22 | The air we breathe is shared by all life on our planet . |
| 23 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 24 | We have been approached by many members and friends who wish to contribute towards some form of memorial in thanksgiving for the life and work of our late founder and President Molly Braithwaite who died on 19th January this year . |
| 25 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 26 | The organisers hope their movement , which they say is supported by many Muslim organisations , will persuade the Government to order an inquiry into the Rushdie affair . |
| 27 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 28 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 29 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 30 | Writing to the archbishop of York after the Council , he told him he could send only the ‘ headings ’ ( the Capitula ) of the decrees because he did not wish to circulate the fuller texts until they had been approved by those who were present . |