Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payment has been satisfied by the issue of 274,914 Savoy ‘ A ’ shares . |
| 2 | Delhi 's response has been complicated by the existence of the lame-duck Kashmiri state government of Dr Farooq Abdullah , who fought last month 's general election in alliance with the then governing Congress party , and which is deeply unpopular in the valley . |
| 3 | Each entry has been hand-crafted by a skilled specialist in lexical analysis . |
| 4 | Anybody who supposes that the events of 1983 in the Caribbean have left the humbug of the Commonwealth unscathed is as self-deceived as those who imagine that the humbug of the United Nations has been unscathed by the events of 1982 in the South Atlantic . |
| 5 | Since the book appeared in America , Rock has been surprised by the letters he 's received ‘ from people who live in the suburbs or small flats where the father is the king , where his armchair is the throne . |
| 6 | The small practitioner has been frightened by the spectre of the JMU into throwing the baby out with the bathwater . |
| 7 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |
| 8 | Lately , Georgina had been worried by the general deterioration in his appearance . |
| 9 | Visitors through the centuries have been impressed by the beauty and harmony of these proportions . ’ |
| 10 | Indians of many parties have been terrified by the prospect of escalating Hindu-Muslim violence , highlighted in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh during the first round of voting , when 19 people were killed . |
| 11 | The committee has been concerned by the high numbers of planning applications granted by six Welsh councils in defiance of published development plans . |
| 12 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 13 | Once we have separated the question of obligation from that of responsibility , we naturally begin to wonder whether the debate about the scope of contractual obligations has been confused by an inappropriate amalgamation of the issues . |
| 14 | Mr. Wright added that the committee had been impressed by the prompt action by Teiman . |
| 15 | If the Cubists had been surprised by the violent reactions which they had aroused previously , they seem to have been anxious to attract as much attention as possible with this exhibition . |
| 16 | If Gould had been disappointed by Sydney , he was amazed by Adelaide . |
| 17 | It was not until the early sixties that he was able to resume his film career , but his post-blacklist work had been undistinguished by two top-heavy Yul Brynner spectacles , Taras Bulba ( 1962 ) and Flight from Ashiya ( 1964 ) . |
| 18 | The issue had been complicated by unclear statements from the DoH . |
| 19 | However , the whole emotive issue had been complicated by the case of a 14-year-old rape victim , whom the Dublin High Court in February sought to debar from travelling to London for an abortion . |
| 20 | Some of the best of the comrades had been horrified by the indiscretion of Lenin in resorting to the aid of the Germans and making the trip through an enemy country . |
| 21 | Punch published two harsh cartoons and , when at the end of February 1858 the government was defeated , The Times , with possibly a touch of exaggeration , declared that Clanricarde had been able by his ‘ mere presence ’ in the cabinet to destroy an exceptionally strong administration . |
| 22 | In the winter of 1981–2 , at the time of the Crosby by-election , the Conservatives had been terrified by SDP threats to their support in south and east England and suburbia generally . |
| 23 | When working for Reuters , a colleague revealed that their boss had been impressed by his hobby . |
| 24 | Even when North Yorkshire sites have been short-listed by an investor on quality grounds the county has had no means of matching the financial incentives elsewhere . |
| 25 | Previous attempts to determine the binding specificity of CytR to DNA sites have been complicated by the fact that repression by CytR relies on both CytR-DNA interactions as well as on direct interactions with cAMP-CRP ( 2 , 10 ) . |
| 26 | The question now arises — has it cost the bank or benefited the bank to do this — that is , would a greater return have been available by placing the sterling sum on deposit instead of the US$ ? |
| 27 | Katie Jane 's been stricken by the acting but too , floating in as a jilted bride in wig and mask before revealing her new crop and slinging on the trademark tousled Ophelia barnet . |
| 28 | With practice you can tell how long a site has been vacant by studying its flora , although the exact species vary from town to town . |
| 29 | Graham Greene does this so thoroughly that the country of his imagination has been dignified by the name of ‘ Greeneland ’ . |
| 30 | Faber has been delighted by the response from booksellers to its £100,000 ‘ How to become a millionaire ’ spring promotion . |