Example sentences of "[ex0] had been [noun] by " in BNC.

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1 The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct .
2 There had been visits by the Royal couple to several foreign countries also , including Communist countries at a time when there existed grave doubts about relationships with those countries .
3 Mr Griffiths also claimed there had been interference by the DTI as far back as December , when it pre-empted the OFT by giving the bid the all-clear at an early stage in the proceedings .
4 In early September there had been allegations by Catholic bishops in the south that government soldiers in Juba were burning homes , killing suspected SPLA sympathizers , mining roads out of the town and using civilians as human shields .
5 There had been invasions by descendants of the deposed Stuarts in 1715 and in 1745 and , though neither had been successful , both of them had been rather alarming .
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