Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] been [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most importantly , since the rail links to Verdun had been severed by artillery fire , he enlarged the road for trucks between Bar-le-Duc and Verdun the ‘ Sacred Way ’ the only supply line to the front . |
| 2 | There were reports on March 12 that Najaf and Karbala had been recaptured by government forces after heavy fighting during which large numbers of civilians had died . |
| 3 | Lacey had been appointed by Attorney General Barr in October [ see p. 39136 ] with the specific brief of determining whether a fuller investigation was warranted . |
| 4 | In August 1964 President Johnson claimed , falsely , that the USS Maddox had been attacked by North Vietnamese gunboats . |
| 5 | Irish champion Charlie Swann had been approached by trainer Homer Scott to ride the horse but Swann has been claimed for Cahervillahow trained by Mouse Morris . |
| 6 | In his capacity as world-wide planning coordinator , Mueller had been invited by Nate Cocello to attend the meeting as an observer . |
| 7 | On May 31 the EPLF vice-chairman Tamirat Laynie told relief officials at a meeting in Addis Ababa that priority would be given to relief operations : the port of Assab had been reopened by agreement with the EPLF and all relief agencies should within a week submit details of their future projects , he said . |
| 8 | A major scandal erupted in early November 1989 with the discovery that cattle on some 1,800 farms in the UK and the Netherlands had been affected by lead poisoning , following the illegal sale of rice bran which had been accidentally tainted with lead . |
| 9 | If Liza had been racked by guilt , now , in a way , so was she . |
| 10 | Denktash had been rebuked by Boutros-Ghali on Nov. 6 for being " in total opposition to all UN resolutions , to the society of nations and to the Security Council " , refusing to accept the return of refugees , insisting on two separate states and separate sovereignty , rejecting the proposed map and refusing to hand over Varosh , the Greek suburb of Famagusta , to UN administration . |