Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals . |
| 2 | I 've been joined today by Professor Mike Springford , Professor of Experimental Physics at the University , and Chairman of the Services for Industry Coordinating Group , and John Golds , the University 's Industrial Liaison Officer . |
| 3 | This was a region of hamlets and little towns which , in the Middle Ages at least , had been inhabited largely by aliens imported by borough patrons . |
| 4 | The ability to bind multiple sites in the gene 62 promoter had been recognized previously by Wu and Wilcox ( 27 ) using a 140k region 2 domain fusion protein ; our analyses utilizing a non-fusion 140k DNA binding domain polypeptide ( VT2 ) confirm and extend this observation . |
| 5 | The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use . |
| 6 | Again , tiger teeth found in Bornean caves are believed to have been placed there by man and not to indicate the former presence of the animal on that island . |
| 7 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 8 | You 're soft on those who 've been treated badly by life — and if you 're not very careful it might well be you . ’ |
| 9 | I have also been criticized fiercely by philosophers for using imaginary time . |
| 10 | The idea of using chemiluminescence has now been developed commercially by Amersham International . |
| 11 | These new insights have been developed mainly by researchers and activists in Latin America and the rest of the Third World , and WACC has played its part in that development . |
| 12 | Benjamin 's approach has been developed further by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . |
| 13 | Reptation theory has been developed further by Doi and Edwards and is being applied to both viscoelastic and solution behaviour . |
| 14 | This too had been given away by Brueckner and was surrounded by a German patrol . |
| 15 | Is not the Polaris fleet plagued with cracks to the nuclear reactor , and has not the game been given away by Mr. Reg Farmer , a former member of the Ministry of Defence safety of nuclear warships committee ? |
| 16 | It is a technique quite remarkably absent from the English game and has not yet been conquered even by Des Walker , whose introduction to Italy has been faltering . |
| 17 | It was their third attempt on the peak , having been repulsed twice by storms . |
| 18 | But Keebler , the troubled biscuits and snack maker , which accounts for about a third of UB sales , has been caught short by price competition in a recession-stricken US market . |
| 19 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 20 | I should make it clear that although these amendments have been grouped together by agreement , they do not all express the same point of view . |
| 21 | It has been stoked primarily by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Russian vice-president , who has warned that it may be time to review Khrushchev 's gift of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 , and by President Kravchuk , a Communist Party boss turned Ukrainian nationalist . |
| 22 | Owers ’ place on the right side of midfield has been occupied recently by David Rush , Peter Davenport and Brian Mooney , who naturally all have their own Cup final aspirations . |
| 23 | To Riego liberalism had been installed solely by officers : civilians had missed any title to glory by failing to raise Cadiz after the army had pronounced . |
| 24 | A similar finding , however , has been reported recently by Suzuki et al . |
| 25 | They 're destined for thousands of people whose lives have been torn apart by conflict … who 're now facing a cruel winter . |
| 26 | These are the human remains that appear in the picture of the priests , from bodies that had already been torn apart by dogs before they were found in the sand . |
| 27 | Some of the people looked as if they had been torn apart by animals with more in the way of teeth and claws than the Good Lord intended for them to have . |
| 28 | Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography . |
| 29 | Soil and vegetation systems have been considered together by Trudgill ( 1977 ) when he perceptively noted that : |
| 30 | The brother of Yucel Ozen , who died in custody on 24 November 1991 after interrogation at Beyoglu Police Station , claims that he had been telephoned frequently by police who made veiled threats and advised him no to press his complaint concerning his brother 's death . |