Example sentences of "[verb] just been [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the unnatural occurrence is that my black-hearted old dad has just been striped by the Lloyds Bank Access card mafia , and is taking it quietly . |
| 2 | The latest version of DataClub — version 3.0 — has just been announced by Novell , which acquired the technology when it bought International Business Software Inc a year ago . |
| 3 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 4 | Jarman has just been honoured by Bafta with the Michael Balcon Award for outstanding achievement and Edward II was released on video last month . |
| 5 | Well , that very technological breakthrough has just been made by a British company . |
| 6 | The first global report on air and water pollution , food contamination and their effects on health has just been prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme . |
| 7 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 8 | His advertisement for the Hayward Gallery 's Doubletake show has just been vetoed by London Underground . |
| 9 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
| 10 | A headhunter for ten years , Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client , which speaks volumes . |
| 11 | English batsmen need to study the techniques of the likes of Javed Miandad and Salim Malik , even if the latter has just been dropped by Pakistan . |
| 12 | He is Richard Holmes , biographer also of Shelley , whose Coleridge : Early Visions has just been published by Hodder and Stoughton ( £16.95 ) . |
| 13 | Ian Richards ' book , How to Use a Computer to Improve Your Business , has just been published by Graham & Trotman ( £8.95 paperback ; £16 hardback ) . |
| 14 | A survey * of studies of costs has just been published by the OECD 's general economics division ( which shows how mainstream economists are being drawn into what was once a green ghetto ) . |
| 15 | Research in assessment IX has just been published by the Assessment Group of the Education Division . |
| 16 | A new book by Dr. A. A. Becker of Mechanical Engineering has just been published by McGraw-Hill Book Company . |
| 17 | A book of the same name has just been published by Pluto Press , and the exhibition will run until September 16th . |
| 18 | THE COMMITMENTS , Alan Parker 's wickedly funny tale of a fiery young band who bring soul music to Dublin , has just been released by FoxVideo ( £12.99 ) . |
| 19 | Keith Fuller has just been picked by the News of the World from 1,000 entries as THE British answer to the new President . |
| 20 | He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do ? |
| 21 | A hand mixer , claimed to produce 25–30kg of concrete in around 30 seconds , has just been introduced by Plysu . |
| 22 | Robert Burke , a Hartley regular , is Bill McCabe , a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl . |
| 23 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 24 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |
| 25 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 26 | you 're still interested in , I do n't know whether you 're still interested in speaking but erm , we 've just been approached by the A N C , they 're pulling everybody back , there 's , everybody 's going home . |
| 27 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 28 | Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ . |
| 29 | She had just been shaken by a ‘ terrible adventure ’ . |
| 30 | After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain . |