Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 2 | Ken and Orton had been introduced by Michael Codron in 1964 . |
| 3 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |
| 4 | When she reached there she found that Ann and Ruth had been joined by several other girls , including Sarah , and were just about to start their game . |
| 5 | A £15m scheme to upgrade the A1 between Bramham and Wetherby has been extended by nearly 1km at a cost of £1m to allow traffic to move freely by widening more of the southbound carriageway to Spen Common Lane . |
| 6 | This project is looking at the way in which plant-breeding at public sector institutes in Scotland , Wales and England has been influenced by various interest groups : government ( via the Agricultural Research Council ) , the private sector ( including farmers ' organisations and seed companies ) , and the academic community . |
| 7 | For the shoot , Colin , C and Jhelisa have been joined by the rest of the touring band , keyboard player Robert Graham and drummer Gavin Knight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A problem had occurred with the equipment on Monday and ScottishPower had been asked by Strathclyde Regional Council to help . |
| 10 | Despite the difficulties and the continuing insecurity of support , Linda concludes that life for Elizabeth and Helen has been improved by their time in the community and that the hard journey is worth it . |
| 11 | The extreme example of soft rock is probably provided by volcanic ash and a recession of almost one mile in the period 1883–1928 of cliffs composed of this material on the island of Krakatoa between Sumatra and Java has been observed by Umbgrove ( Guilcher , 1958 ) : this works out to a loss of over 30 m ( 100 ft ) per year at some points . |
| 12 | Up to this point the structuralism of Lévi-Strauss and Barthes has been characterized by a formal interest in the structure of signification which has its clear roots in structural linguistics . |
| 13 | Wordsworth probably never knew how his walks with Dorothy and Coleridge had been misrepresented by the garrulous old man , and would have been sorry to discover the truth . |
| 14 | In other words , I believe that the repetition in [ 25 ] achieves the same kind of non-propositional stylistic effects which Sperber and Wilson argue are yielded by [ 23 ] . |
| 15 | She still doubted whether Roirbak would betray her in this way , but perhaps Lennon was right and Quincx had been duped by Malamute . |
| 16 | It was believed that Western military preponderance throughout most of Asia and Africa had been undercut by the balancing effect of the Soviet Union , which made formal American military alignment with Third World states both more hazardous and anachronistic . |
| 17 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 18 | And Derek 's been replaced by a machine ! |
| 19 | Nomura and Nikko had been removed by the World Bank on Sept. 12 from a list of dealers eligible to bid for its bond underwriting business , and Nomura was under further examination by the Fair Trade Commission for possible breaches of anti-monopoly legislation relating to property transactions . |
| 20 | AN APPEAL for the Government to provide financial support to improve a road between Edinburgh and Midlothian has been made by Lothian Regional Council . |
| 21 | In recent decades communities in the United States and Europe have been confronted by the realisation that lead can severely retard the mental development of their children . |
| 22 | Study of the actions of PYY and NPY have been helped by the recent description of synthetic decapeptide amide antagonists , PYX 1 and PYX 2 . |
| 23 | Generally less well-educated than other ethnic groups , and more likely to lack jobs and live in grim houses , Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have been hit by the closure of run-down Bradford mills and ancient Birmingham factories . |
| 24 | CHILDLESS couples waiting for test-tube baby treatment in Tayside and Fife have been warned by their doctors that the service may be withdrawn . |
| 25 | If the English performances in Paris and Edinburgh had been executed by New Zealand they would be proclaimed as awesome and unstoppable . |
| 26 | In Wales , more than 40 per cent of children in West Glamorgan and Dyfed have been struck by flu in the past three weeks . |
| 27 | In Wales , more than 40 per cent of children in West Glamorgan and Dyfed have been struck by flu in the past three weeks . |
| 28 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 29 | Hilary reported on the Medau Teachers ' Whitsun Course in Coburg to which she and June had been invited by Jochen Medau . |
| 30 | Eadric Streona 's raid on St David 's in 1012 was not the first English incursion of Æthelred 's reign , and Cnut had been opposed by Welsh allies of Edmund Ironside in 1016 , and felt it necessary to settle several Scandinavian earls in the west midlands , one of whom , Eglaf , ravaged Dyfed in 1022 ; it is Welsh , not English , sources which record his flight from England after Cnut 's death . |