Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 2 | The corollary is seen where alien plants , contrary to expectation , appear to oust native plants in species-rich environments , where every ‘ niche ’ would appear to have been filled by species evolving more or less in situ to fit those environmental factors . |
| 3 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 4 | TWO senior strategic positions in BNFL have been filled by women . |
| 5 | The gap has been filled by Bill Rear 's excellent volume . |
| 6 | The post , in the Lending Services Division , has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride , BA , ALA , who comes to NLS from East Lothian District Council 's library service where she was Bibliographic Services Librarian . |
| 7 | The new post of Customer Services Officer in Lending Services has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride . |
| 8 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 9 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 10 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 11 | Their positions have now been filled by Mr Namadra Singh and Mr Giljod Singh , neither of whom , surprisingly , are related to the chairman . |
| 12 | His role as director of Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems has been filled by Tom Jarosh , formerly vice president in the company 's General Sector Division . |
| 13 | While today 's soul singers tend to reflect the mores of a new black middle class , their erstwhile role — as an authentic voice or urban black experience — had been filled by rap artists . |
| 14 | They had reached the grave , and Ace obediently turned to face the crowd , so that they could n't see her freed hands , which had previously been hidden by Petion 's body . |
| 15 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 16 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 17 | Zhang Taiheng , who had been dismissed by Yang Baibing as Chengdu MR commander in late 1991 . |
| 18 | The plan has been dismissed by ecologists as both gimmicky and technically unviable . |
| 19 | A case could be made for such a ritual being enshrined in the legend of Lady Godiva of Coventry , riding through the city on a white horse ( fig. 13.1 ) , though this idea has been dismissed by Hilda Ellis Davison in her otherwise full and admirable account of the legend . |
| 20 | Particularly when it was discovered — as it would be — that she was the mother of a bastard child , the daughter of a man who had left Frizingley heavily in debt , and had already been dismissed by Miss Ernestine Baker for her loose behaviour in a public street . |
| 21 | Bakatin , although he had been dismissed by Gorbachev as Interior Minister in December 1990 as a result of conservative pressure , was seen as the Soviet President 's candidate whose role was to win enough votes to deny Yeltsin a first round victory . |
| 22 | N-E FEARS that tumbling property rents in London could lead companies to think again about relocating from the South-East have been dismissed by property agent Grimley JR Eve . |
| 23 | And now the production has been re-staged by Stephen Medcalf for the Glyndebourne tour with a new cast ( some of the occupants of minor roles in the festival have been promoted : Alison Hagley 's Barbarina is now Susanna ) , a different orchestra , the London Sinfonietta , and a new conductor , Sir Peter Maxwell Davies . |
| 24 | The estate 's legal battles have been waged by Gerard Basquiat , the artist 's father , and the attorney Michael Ward Stout . |
| 25 | Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks . |
| 26 | We have only looked , in this chapter , at a small subset of the parameter values that have been examined by researchers in recent years . |
| 27 | The slow progress towards acceptance of television by the Commons has been examined by Dr Bob Franklin in previous articles in this journal . |
| 28 | The differences between these waves have been examined by Lewis ( 1931 ) . |
| 29 | The site has already been examined by planners from Stroud District Council , one of the most environmentally conscious authorities in the country . |
| 30 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |