Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 2 | But he has been influenced by Old Masters . |
| 3 | Show Geoff some charity I WOULD like to draw to the attention of all regular shoppers and visitors to Liverpool , who have heard the lovely voice of Geoff Caddick who does lots of charity work for the Newborn Baby Appeal , to the fact that he has been harassed by certain local business people who wish to move him on . |
| 4 | Here , Pip has realised what a disaster he is and he has been hit by hard consequences as a result of his greediness . |
| 5 | He has been idolised by fictional characters from Dean Moriarty in Kerouac 's On the Road to Barley in Le Carre 's The Russia House , and he is one of only two people looked up to by Miles Davis . |
| 6 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 7 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 8 | MacLink also has a role to play in the translation of information once it has been transferred by other communications systems ; simple serial links , modem or Email based file transfer or the third main method for getting files between Macintoshes and PCs , disk exchange . |
| 9 | This was , admittedly , the rather indeterminate ‘ walking speed ’ , though in more recent years it has been followed by widespread adoption of 30 km/h limits , especially in Germany . |
| 10 | It is submitted that these conclusions are wholly unjustified ; it has been rejected by other United States courts and it is difficult to see what purpose would be served by the inclusion of Article 10(a) in a convention on service of process if that was not its subject-matter . |
| 11 | It has been fertilised by German blood and sweat , and owes its culture to Germans . |
| 12 | But the concept of mutual mate choice has remained untested experimentally , although it has been supported by recent modelling . |
| 13 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 14 | The thickness of the Stinkdolomit in areas where it has been affected by late leaching is about 40–60 m and of this , about 10–20 m might be expected to constitute potential net pay . |
| 15 | An official announcement was expected at the end of the week , following a final meeting at Pirelli 's Milan headquarters , but it has been delayed by contractual difficulties with some of the company 's existing Italian agencies . |
| 16 | But if there is a distinctive female verbal culture — and here we need to bear in mind that women themselves are not a homogeneous group — I would argue that it has been shaped by patriarchal conditions , including the restrictions placed on women 's lives and words . |
| 17 | Of course , it is different if we intervene solely to restore the material condition of a work of art after it has been damaged by external forces such as an accident or vandalism . |
| 18 | It has been suggested by Australian authors that , because of all the gauge problems , Australians have always had an inferiority complex about their railways . |
| 19 | It has been rediscovered by dynamic psychology in the twentieth century , but it is an ancient insight and has been in the Bible all along . |
| 20 | This in itself suggests that it has been overtaken by other schedules currently being piloted , which directly involve service users . |
| 21 | It has been overtaken by local practices and informal agreements — and that has been the case since mechanisation of the industry began in the 1950s . |
| 22 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 23 | Now it has been acquired by US-based FMC corporation and its businesses will complement FMC 's existing line of phosphate esters made in West Virginia . |
| 24 | If expenditure is contained within a budget it implies that it has been approved by top management and no further approval is required . |
| 25 | Clearly , war is an instrument of policy , and the different forms which it takes are influenced by social and cultural conditions . |
| 26 | Ever since Europe 's largest theme park opened eighteen months ago , it 's been cursed by financial problems . |
| 27 | Sadly , this has gone , but it 's been replaced by comprehensive diagnostic program on both the L and M ranges . |
| 28 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 29 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 30 | Try telling that to Niall — a practised afternoon riser back home — at breakfast after he 's been assaulted by crack-of-dawn alarm calls . |