Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State . |
| 2 | ORPHANS in Romania have been helped by a compassionate gesture from International Paint 's Retail Division . |
| 3 | A spokesman for Royal Mail said the incident in Middlesbrough had been caused by an oversight . |
| 4 | Two new night taxi ranks in Middlesbrough have been approved by Cleveland County Council 's highways sub-committee . |
| 5 | It 's the first time the diaries , film scripts and private photographs of the 1950's star who was born in Swindon have been seen by the public . |
| 6 | A plan by Durham City Council to build five old people 's bungalows on land at Front Street in Coxhoe has been approved by planning chiefs . |
| 7 | A PROPOSAL for a first floor extension at 2 Crossways Road in Grayshott has been refused by district planners . |
| 8 | The paintings on show in Washington have been chosen by Diane de Grazia , Curator of Southern Baroque Painting , in consultation with Sir Denis Mahon . |
| 9 | Ivan Polozkov , the conservative CPSU first secretary in Krasnodar kray ( territory ) who in May had been defeated by Boris Yeltsin for the post of President of the Russian Federation [ see pp. 37459-60 ] , was elected to the post of first secretary of the Russian Federation CP on June 23 . |
| 10 | The third week in May has been earmarked by Hewlett-Packard for the launch of a new addition to its top-end HP 9000 RISC server line that should boost its performance range up to the mainframe level . |
| 11 | On returning to London he found the entry lock to his block of flats had been changed to keep out squatters from a neighbouring residence , forcing him to wait outside with his suitcases and ‘ coffin ’ for hours , and then he learnt that his house in Worcester had been vandalised by his tenant . |
| 12 | Since early 1919 , agitation against Britain 's support for the various anti-Soviet armies in Russia had been co-ordinated by a Hands Off Russia Committee run by the far left , but supported by UDC intellectuals , Quakers and many Liberals . |
| 13 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 14 | A quarter of waste dumps in England have been closed by companies in attempt to sidestep new pollution control rules , leaving a toxic legacy which could cost councils millions of pounds to clean up . |
| 15 | An Advanced Certificate in Stonemasonry has been developed by SCOTVEC in collaboration with Glasgow College of Building and Printing , and Telford College . |
| 16 | We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations . |
| 17 | The corn of Italy that was sown in Tigre has been reaped by Abba-Dagnaw and given to the birds . |
| 18 | On July 24 , following its return from Brazil , a request to unload its contents in Rotterdam had been refused by the Netherlands Environment Ministry . |
| 19 | BELOW : The walled kitchen garden at Fenton House in Hampstead has been restored by the Trust over the last ten years ( National Trust Photographic Library/Ian Shaw ) |
| 20 | Recent political developments in Guinea have been dominated by plans for the introduction of multiparty democracy . |
| 21 | He was expected , quite unrealistically , to foster British trade throughout Europe ; but by the first years of the twentieth century the attaché in Paris had been supplemented by others in Berlin , Vienna , Constantinople , Madrid , Pekin and Yokohama . |
| 22 | The Krypton gas-peril of the new reprocessing plant in Cumbria has been exposed by the Mirror . |
| 23 | Attempts to establish a British colony in Virginia had been made by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s . |
| 24 | GRANTS totalling more than £37,000 for a host of projects being run by organisations in Cleveland have been agreed by the county council . |
| 25 | Various reasons have been offered for this decline , but the most likely explanation is that the general conditions of recession in Britain have been exacerbated by other factors peculiar to the recording industry . |
| 26 | The arguments for disabled employment rights in Britain have been fuelled by a number of factors . |
| 27 | The post-war period in Britain has been characterized by the development of geriatric medicine as a legitimate medical specialism . |
| 28 | The gross cost per trainee in Britain has been cut by 10 per cent since 1985 . |
| 29 | The existence of a stable political culture in Britain has been ascribed by some to the effectiveness of government . |
| 30 | The problem of racial tension in Britain has been exacerbated by the fact that , though the total black population is small , it is largely concentrated in certain urban areas , notably London , Leicester , Birmingham , and various West Midlands towns . |