Example sentences of "they [verb] be [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a unanimous decision the Irish Supreme Court on March 13 refused to return to the United Kingdom two escaped prisoners , both members of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , on the grounds that they risked being assaulted by prison staff . |
| 2 | Berni 's problems began , he believes , when they started being influenced by marketing and introducing themes to the properties and designing the menus to match . |
| 3 | But erm , that 's the idea , you see , that these kids , er well , you know , they may be delinquent , and do lots of nasty things , but it 's only the way they 've been treated by society . |
| 4 | They 've been designed by sculptor John Buckley . |
| 5 | They had been joined by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Grierson . |
| 6 | In an emotional debate , all Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) deputies walked out in protest , claiming that they had been insulted by Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) leader Leszek Moczulski . |
| 7 | They had been annihilated by stealth , it was rumoured , or even by sorcery . |
| 8 | The immediate increase in those deposits will come from transfers from banks but the ultimate origin will be a diversion of funds away from the destinations to which they had been channelled by unit trust managements . |
| 9 | He indicated they had been killed by shelling , seeming to contradict reports that many in Zepa had starved to death . |
| 10 | They had been driven by brute necessity to defend one country . |
| 11 | They had been introduced by seed merchants putting them into their catalogues and invoices — and never objected to by farmers . |
| 12 | Just because they have been disowned by Labour has not stopped them hitching their star to its bandwagon . |
| 13 | In this upgraded version — 1.2 — not only are Typographica fonts not supplied , but they have been replaced by Adobe Type Manager 2. x and ATM fonts of the same style of the originals . |
| 14 | By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country . |
| 15 | By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country . |
| 16 | TWO more British Olympic medallists told yesterday how they have been hit by dole office meanies . |
| 17 | They have been tested by history . |
| 18 | They have been attacked by Parliament , with the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 providing that : |
| 19 | But , once they have been signed by world leaders , it 's still ordinary people who have to make these agreements stick . |
| 20 | If they have been lifted by frost , push them back down so their bases sit on the soil and refirm the soil . |
| 21 | She suggests that the ‘ subjective , intuitive , emotional ’ ( 1986 : 29 ) methods they defend are rejected by psychology because they are associated , not with lack of scientific rigour , but with femininity . |