Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Titcombe 's nagging suspicions had been aroused by several points . |
| 2 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 3 | These disciplines have been joined by many others from different fields , from Law to Business Studies , to Social Administration , to Gender Studies , to Forestry , Religious Studies and Natural Resources . |
| 4 | The variation in size would have been enormous as the existing parish councils would have been joined by such cities as Sheffield as ‘ local councils ’ . |
| 5 | Now it had been joined by several cars and a coach was disgorging a gaggle of tourists . |
| 6 | By 1988 Field End had been joined by another specialist children 's respite care unit at Leigh Road . |
| 7 | I have received no request for a statement , but the hon. Gentleman 's point of order will have been heard by those Ministers with responsibility for such matters . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 10 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now , one member of the joint traffic management sub-committee who has been closely associated with all of these three issues is county councillor Tony and I must say , Mr Mayor that I am surprised to say the least by the way in which councillor appears appears to have been treated by some members of the labour party in this city . |
| 13 | The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists . |
| 14 | Airbus Industrie rejected any suggestion that the aircraft itself was to blame , but its sophisticated " fly by wire " computer system had been criticized by some experts as over-complicated , and Indian Airlines staff complained that pilots and maintenance crew had received insufficient training on the Airbus . |
| 15 | Naturally , differences have also been highlighted by these comparisons . |
| 16 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 17 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 18 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | More recently fast-breeder reactors fuelled with a mixture of plutonium and uranium have been developed by some countries . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking . |
| 22 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 23 | ‘ Yet again the depths of depravity have been plumbed by these people . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The ability of a prime minister effectively to call a general election has been regarded by some writers as the most important weapon in ensuring parliamentary support . |
| 26 | Ritual has been regarded by several anthropologists as a social event in which pent-up emotions can find some form of release . |
| 27 | The British Isles have been conquered by all manner of people from the Vikings , to the Picts , the Celts , the Saxons , the Romans and the Normans . |
| 28 | The birch forests of Siberia , so upright , so elegant in autumn , had been broken by this winter campaign . |
| 29 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 30 | Already huge controversy has been provoked by some researchers ' attempts to claim effective ownership of human genes through patenting and by a proposal to set up a UK national database of ‘ DNA fingerprints ’ to enable the rapid identification and capture of violent criminals . |