Example sentences of "[vb past] been put [prep] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said her own worries had been put into perspective by a visit shortly before his death of Lord Cheshire . |
| 2 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 3 | In response to a pervasive loss of faith in mid-Victorian economic liberalism , a string of measures had been put through Parliament by Conservative and Liberal Governments in concession to the case against unregulated laissez-faire and for intervention on social grounds by the state . |
| 4 | But at that and the second Westminster election , he had been put in office by the DUP . |
| 5 | The managerial arrangements that Sir Roy Griffiths reviewed in 1983 had been put in place by the reorganisation of 1974 . |