Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by another " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1988 Field End had been joined by another specialist children 's respite care unit at Leigh Road . |
| 2 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 3 | The notion of man as an ‘ amplifier ’ which I take to mean that he enlarges programmes of skill , which have been developed by another , in order to manipulate machines is one that has far-reaching consequences as I shall try to show in this paper . |
| 4 | The Darwinians were also impressed with the discovery by Henry Walter Bates ( 1825–92 ) of a new kind of mimicry in South American insects , where an edible species copies the warning colours that have been developed by another species that is distasteful to birds . |
| 5 | That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 6 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 7 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 8 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 9 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 10 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 11 | ‘ Noelle is 5ft 6in and she 's already been approached by another agency , ’ she says ruefully . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 14 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 15 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 16 | That is any auditor of an authorised institution incorporated in the U K. It also covers auditors of authorised institutions whose place of incorporation is outside the European community and who 's initial authorisation has been granted by another regulator , even though such auditors may be appointed under a foreign law . |
| 17 | The three individuals were all ‘ phoned by a sultry female voice informing them that their bid had been matched by another . |
| 18 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 19 | Actually , the experiment is not perfect because , strictly speaking , Andersson only showed that the number of nests on a male 's territory was related to tail length ; the eggs could have been fertilized by another male , and the female then attracted to the territory of a male with a longer tail . |
| 20 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 21 | ( Teachers used to living in subject blinkers are sometimes startled to find that films chosen as " starters " for topic work in their subject may already have been shown by another teacher in a different context . |
| 22 | It is understood that the lease , furniture and fittings of two of the branches — on Rosemary Street in Belfast and on Shipquay Street in Derry — have been bought by another travel firm . |
| 23 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |
| 24 | However , the view that there was a predestinarian orthodoxy in the Elizabethan church has been challenged by another group of historians , which includes Peter White , Kevin Sharpe , and George Bernard . |
| 25 | QUALITY COUNTS in Lothian Regional Council and this has been demonstrated by another successful BS 5750 certification . |
| 26 | Buckhaven 's skills have also been enlisted by another pharmaceutical giant for an anti-asthma drug . |
| 27 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 28 | If the dismissed employee has been replaced by another employee this usually means redundancy . |
| 29 | They argue that the post-war period is best characterised as one involving policy change and instability , and that , since the crack-up of the consensus in the 1960s , one doctrinaire and mandated government has been replaced by another with scant regard to appeals to the middle ground of public opinion . |
| 30 | Such an " increment count and jump " instruction specifies an accumulator , index register , or store location whose contents are to be used as a loop counter ( and which will have been initialized by another instruction ) . |