Example sentences of "[verb] been behind [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rowland , chief executive of Lonrho , the conglomerate which owns the Observer , has been behind a long-running campaign against the Al Fayed brothers , whose acquisition of House of Fraser and Harrods , its flagship store , was heavily criticised in a Department of Trade report in 1990 . |
| 2 | Police say a battle for territory between crack cocaine dealers has been behind a series of recent shootings in South London . |
| 3 | After last year 's franchise battle and now this takeover most of the interest in ITV has been behind the scenes , not on the screens . |
| 4 | Suggestions that the Bank of England may have been behind the operation were rejected by market professionals . |
| 5 | MARK ROE might well have been behind the TV cameras at the GA European Open , but at the Lancome Trophy he was back in his rightful place — on our screens . |
| 6 | Men who might have been behind the assassins . |
| 7 | Police have searched the house They think robbery may have been behind the attack and they note that the house was open and there 's no evidence of a fight . |
| 8 | Well when I , I saw him come in door at this end and I thought oh well , I 'll follow them see if they 've gone back and they were sat , well it must have been behind the back |
| 9 | The chap on the Britannia stage was referring , almost certainly , to a recent threat by the IRA in Derry to kill two people who they allege to have been behind a ‘ major drugs ring ’ in the city . |
| 10 | There was no clear indication of which group had assisted in his escape , with reports attributing a motive variously to the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , the left-wing December 20 ( M-20 ) guerrillas , or the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) , of which Gaitán had been a commander , and which was believed to have been behind a number of bombings since the US invasion . |
| 11 | This is what seems to have been behind the ‘ skinhead ’ or ‘ boot-boy ’ phenomenon that has been a part of football hooliganism . |
| 12 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |
| 13 | But Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam was furious with the FA and seems to have been behind the change of heart . |
| 14 | In the run-up to the elections Fujimori sought to present himself to the public as the defender of democracy , claiming that opposition politicians had been behind a coup attempt on Nov. 13 aimed at preventing the CCD elections from taking place and restoring the 1979 Constitution . |
| 15 | He would track down the boardroom where the orders were issued , and he would declare all-out war on whichever Japcorp or state authority had been behind the singe . |
| 16 | It had been the Jews , together with Prussian militarism , that had been behind the Russian Revolution . |
| 17 | I noted from Gergiev 's conducting CV that he had n't escaped the grip of the Union of Composers : the works or its secretary- general , the ogre-figure of Tikhon Khrennikov who had been behind the 1948 denunciations of Prokofiev and Shostakovich , are a fairly regular feature . |
| 18 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 19 | Because the whole neighbourhood-thanks to Gittel 's big-mouthed elder sister-knew exactly who had been behind the curse , although even the sister was too much of a prude to tell anyone the reason why . ’ |
| 20 | It had been behind the purchase of some of the BCR 's rolling stock in 1867 , when the available property of the line was sold in order to try and satisfy the claims of its creditors . |
| 21 | The authorities discounted the possibility that the former East German state security police ( " Stasi " ) had been behind the attack , despite confirmation on March 26 by the federal prosecutor that the Stasi had sheltered and trained RAF members since 1978 . |
| 22 | Rejecting recent allegations in the Bulgarian and Italian press concerning the supposed involvement of Konstantin Karadzhov , a former mayor of a Sofia municipality , Danov stated that he was inclined to believe the scenario put forward in some sections of the Western press that forces inside the Vatican had been behind the assassination attempt . |
| 23 | Many possible direct effects were ruled out by the test program and Mayo eventually concluded that a complex emotional chain had been behind the productivity changes . |
| 24 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 25 | One of this periodical 's editors , the radical journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii , had been behind the publication of Kavelin 's work in The Contemporary and was finding many subtle and not so subtle ways to advance reform in the St Petersburg press . |
| 26 | Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ? |
| 27 | We 've been behind the scenes of the Society , which is funded entirely from public donations . |
| 28 | The only body of people who have been behind the Bill have been the principals of the colleges , and what did they say ? |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Harp Lager who have been behind the new building all along , are to be congratulated on their commitment to Down Royal and also for making sure that the flagship of racing on the track , the Ulster Harp Derby , has been boosted financially as well as given a new look . |