Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 3 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 4 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 5 | They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 6 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 7 | A first assessment of the non-market benefits of woodlands has been completed by the Forestry Commission . |
| 8 | One study which goes a long way towards identifying dimensions of the culture of the shop floor , and the political relatedness of workers to their enterprise has been completed by Paul E. Willis . |
| 9 | Once the test flying schedule has been completed by Mark Hanna the Spitfire will be operated on the airshow circuit by the Duxford-based Old Flying Machine Company , flying alongside their Eagle Squadron schemed MH-434 . |
| 10 | A SECOND 3D seismic survey covering offshore Vietnam has been completed by XFI . |
| 11 | Construction work on the world 's largest hydroelectric project , in Northern Quebec , Canada , has been halted by a ruling from the National Energy Board that the project must comply with federal guidelines on the environment . |
| 12 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 13 | A planning application has been lodged by Caithness Charcoal for the construction of a factory on the edge of the Dubb Lochs of Shielton site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) . |
| 14 | An official objection to National Grid Company plans for a high-voltage overhead line from Teesside to Shipton , near York , has been lodged by the department . |
| 15 | Recent comment has been disfigured by a good deal of misinformation . |
| 16 | Now , at 19 , I do n't believe my life has been impaired by having aged parents . |
| 17 | Tea and spices have played their part in making this unforgotten paradise a priceless jewel which has been snatched by the Portuguese , Dutch , and finally the British . |
| 18 | If the company has the right to decide whether or not to award a bonus , you will not be entitled to compensation for its loss , unless the bonus has been declared by the date of your dismissal . |
| 19 | Now mo motion one O three has been withdrawn by the , the Northern Region . |
| 20 | Actually Pembo 's yellow card for that tackle has been withdrawn by the ref in question — the first time such a thing has happened . |
| 21 | So far the choice has been fudged by declared commitments to both EC technological collaboration and more competition . |
| 22 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 23 | That has been opposed by Mr Oscar Arias , President of Costa Rica , who will chair the summit meeting . |
| 24 | Finally , inward investors find attractive the measures that we have taken to improve training and skills , almost every one of which has been opposed by Labour . |
| 25 | A proposal by brewery giants , Guinness , to put up the price of the pint by 2p has been opposed by the Vintners ' Federation of Ireland , which represents 6,000 publicans outside the Dublin area . |
| 26 | A SUPERSTORE development on the outskirts of Middlesbrough has been opposed by Cleveland planning officials . |
| 27 | Scottish Office officials said yesterday that a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) could be operational by 1996 , although its creation has been opposed by 40 local authorities and six of the seven river purification boards . |
| 28 | This has been explained by analysis of the metal which reveals that copper is also present in the alloy . |
| 29 | The extent to which British industry has been damaged in the '80s has been explained by Lord Prior , once a dissident in the Thatcher cabinet , now chairman of GEC . |
| 30 | Models nevertheless existed in some parts of Europe and variation has been explained by the use of forms of the lost-wax or -lead process ( Capelle and Vierck 1975 ; Vierck 1976 ; Arrhenius 1973 ; 1975 ; Dickinson 1982 , pp. 21–2 ) . |