Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 2 | The DUC condemned the sabotage , which was widely believed to have been carried out by militants from outside the local area . |
| 3 | Successful tests of bullet-proof shields have been carried out by members of the Liverpool City Police Force … policemen armed with these , faced with equanimity revolver bullets fired by colleagues . |
| 4 | Secondly , I shall discuss textual analysis of the bible which has been carried out by feminists in recent years . |
| 5 | The Middle East International of Aug. 16 said that it was " virtually certain " that Leyraud 's abduction had been carried out by dissidents from within radical Shia circles . |
| 6 | The shortfall has been made up by grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and the British Museum Society . |
| 7 | The actual payment or receipt of the option premium is effected when the position is closed , at the rate prevailing at that time , with the difference between that and the option price at the outset having been made up by payments of variation margin . |
| 8 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Hartlepool Labour candidate Peter Mandelson has been called in by trainees from Billingham 's Astra Training Centre . |
| 10 | Hundreds of thousands of acres have been swallowed up by developers since ( 1985 ) nineteen eighty five . |
| 11 | That is something to do with Traidcraft that they erm they quite often work with groups who have been set up by carriages from Europe . |
| 12 | An incident room 's been set up by police in Aylesbury . |
| 13 | However , the process had been set back by delays in the assembly programme [ see p. 38706 ] . |
| 14 | This conversation , occurring shortly after the conversation with Patrick recorded above , was taking place at Ludens 's flat , where a scrappy supper had been laid out by Ludens after Gildas 's telephone call . |
| 15 | In earlier incidents , OMON units on Jan. 14 had briefly occupied a police station in Riga , and had tried to remove two of the barricades which had been put up by Latvians on main roads , bridges and around public buildings in response to events in Vilnius . |
| 16 | This was the very fringe of his parish , that part that would never become residentially ‘ desirable ’ because it was too near the railway , and many of the big gaunt houses had been taken over by families of West Indians . |
| 17 | Because of the present confusion in East Berlin , the owners of the buildings are unknown and many of them have been taken over by squatters from all over the world who make paintings , installations and sculpture frequently from old junk and scrap metal , create theatre and festivals , run parties and discos , bars etc . |
| 18 | Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family . |
| 19 | These policies have , in many cases , been taken out by individuals on low incomes merely to provide for the cost of funeral expenses . |
| 20 | In the wake of the disturbances , union leaders alleged that one of the men arrested , the Scottish Militant leader and Glasgow councillor Tommy Sheridan , had been singled out by police for special treatment , and that the force had been heavy handed . |
| 21 | ‘ They had been covered up by layers of varnish and paint over the years and no-one knew what lay underneath . ’ |
| 22 | In April 1987 the Channel Ferry Disaster Fund had received some £3.45 million of which about £300,000 had been paid out by Trustees in the form of interim payments . |
| 23 | Or perhaps another of the cai living quarters had again been burned down by coolies in one of the other villages ? |
| 24 | Despite its elegance , the collection managed to depict an image of women so passive that the designs would probably have been snapped up by Qantas as uniforms for its air hostesses in late 1972 . |
| 25 | All the members of the EC except Britain and Denmark have voted to ratify the treaty ( although in Germany the president 's signature has been held up by challenges in the constitutional court ) . |
| 26 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |