Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The small practitioner has been frightened by the spectre of the JMU into throwing the baby out with the bathwater . |
| 6 | The committee has been concerned by the high numbers of planning applications granted by six Welsh councils in defiance of published development plans . |
| 7 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 8 | Mr. Wright added that the committee had been impressed by the prompt action by Teiman . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The issue had been complicated by unclear statements from the DoH . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When working for Reuters , a colleague revealed that their boss had been impressed by his hobby . |
| 13 | 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$ ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Graham Greene does this so thoroughly that the country of his imagination has been dignified by the name of ‘ Greeneland ’ . |
| 16 | Attempts by the city council to force him from office had proved unsuccessful , and the process had been complicated by frequent changes of mind by Gates over when and whether he was willing to step down . |
| 17 | In the case of a dust grain the number of tracks indicates for how long the grain has been unshielded by other material . |
| 18 | Mr Parfitt 's brother , Phil , confirmed that his wife had been worried by cancer scares — but had been given the all-clear . |
| 19 | He wondered if the Irishman had been surprised by the roughness of her nipples and the prickly coarseness of her pubic hair against his skin . |
| 20 | Detectives investigating the assault have been shocked by the attack . |
| 21 | Many a visitor has been embarrassed by the fact that Reykjavik airport is different from Keflavik . |
| 22 | The drawing suggests that the reception area has been pre-empted by a completely inadequate shape . |
| 23 | Prof Alderslade said Trent Regional Health Authority had been appalled by Allitt 's crimes , and pledged that the parents would be fully informed of the inquiry 's findings . |
| 24 | BROTHER CADFAEL had made one journey to the hamlet of Preston in search of the young man Aldhelm , only to find that he was away in the riverside fields of the manor of Upton , busy with the lambing , for the season had been complicated by having to retrieve some of the ewes in haste from the rising water , and the shepherds were working all the hours of the day . |
| 25 | Harriet and Adam 's success has been remarkable by anyone standards . |
| 26 | Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions . |
| 27 | Cool-headed and light-hearted about life , Zeelenberg is not the sort of man to have been worried by the doubters . |
| 28 | When asked by an interviewer if he was pleased with the performance of the British plants , the President had replied that although past performance had been bad by traditional British standards , he was now happy to say that in recent months a marked improvement had taken place . |
| 29 | The question of Israel 's continuing refusal to let IAEA experts inspect its civilian nuclear industry was overshadowed by the Gulf crisis , and efforts to exclude South Africa because of its continuing apartheid policy and its unwillingness to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty had been pre-empted by the announcement on Sept. 27 that the South African government intended to sign the treaty in due course . |
| 30 | Six weeks before the assault on Verdun , the French Second Army had been relieved by the rapidly expanding British Army , and was pulled back out of the line to form a general reserve . |