Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 2 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 3 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
| 4 | A factory worker has been describing how he tried in vain to save a colleague who 'd been overcome by toxic fumes . |
| 5 | The fifty nine year old singer who 'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday . |
| 6 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 7 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 8 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 9 | Pc Geoff Towle , secretary of the federation 's Derbyshire branch , said the quota system had been operated by senior CID men who did little to conceal it . |
| 10 | Where previous discussions about the Britishness of British films had been coloured by official concerns about national status , and cinema 's role in boosting American economic might , filmmakers increasingly focused on the possibility that good stories might be British stories . |
| 11 | When its near discordant notes gave way to Rooster and the driving beat of early Rolling Stones music , it was as if the the group and the whole theatre had been struck by benign lightening . |
| 12 | P cepacia was not recovered from the external surface of the spirometer handpiece , or from the arms of a wooden chair that had been grasped by each patient during spirometry . |
| 13 | By one year , 12 recurrences had been diagnosed by ultrasonagraphy but only seven had been detected by oral cholecystectography . |
| 14 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 15 | Those undertaking health promotion saw this as evidence that sexual behaviour could be changed and that educational messages about safer sex had been heeded by homosexual men . |
| 16 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 17 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 18 | Croll managed the day to day administration of the office until he retired in 1881 by which time he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and had been honoured by learned bodies at home and abroad . |
| 19 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 20 | The Milwukee Project broke into the national news , when S. P. Strickland implied , in the July 197 I issue of American Education , that the IQs of children in Heber 's study had been raised by 33 points . |
| 21 | A £2,000 reward had been raised by local people after the killings for information leading to those responsible . |
| 22 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 23 | Opened for signature at UNCED in Rio in June 1992 [ see ED 59-60 ] , the biodiversity convention had 160 signatories to date , and had been ratified by six countries ; it thus needed 24 more ratifications in order to come into effect . |
| 24 | As of Oct. 31 , 1989 , it had been ratified by 15 states ( see pp. 35984 ; 36565 for Turkey 's ratification in February 1988 ) . |
| 25 | The Social Charter , which had been adopted by 11 member countries in December 1989 [ see p. 37132 ] , continued to draw much criticism from the UK during this period , particularly with regard to the rights of employees to consultation in the workplace . |
| 26 | By the publication of the second edition the scheme had been adopted by 75 libraries , many outside the UK . |
| 27 | Des Shepherd , of Sunrise , launched in November 1989 , said : ‘ It showed how the needs of an affluent and up-and-coming Asian community had been ignored by mainstream broadcasters . ’ |
| 28 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 29 | Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before . |
| 30 | Banana exports of $6,500,000 had been lost by early May and the coffee trade had been seriously disrupted . |