Example sentences of "been [vb pp] by [det] [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | The EDC treaty had not been ratified by any state when the proposed Political Community treaty was published . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The birch forests of Siberia , so upright , so elegant in autumn , had been broken by this winter campaign . |
| 13 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 14 | There is mounting suspicion , too , that Britain 's market in cars , car parts and servicing has been poisoned by this system . |
| 15 | A letter has been received by each objector stating that arrangements have been made to hold a Public Local Inquiry which will begin on 4th November 1991 . |
| 16 | To prove contrary evidence it was necessary to have either positive proof that the document was returned to the sender or , if sent by recorded delivery , that there was no acknowledgement of receipt , or if there was evidence of the document having been received by some person , there was proof that the person was not the intended recipient and that he had not brought the document to the notice of the person required to be served . |
| 17 | Here we know that the enclosure of the open fields began in the 1570s , and had been completed by some date in the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | But the Wills Act 1968 provides that if a will is already duly executed with two other qualified witnesses , the attestation of any person who would have been caught by this rule must be disregarded . |
| 19 | As in Sonia 's case , the Home Office have turned down Prakesh 's application to stay in this country , saying her case has been fully considered , despite the fact that she has never been interviewed by any Home Office officials , and despite the fact that there are compassion circumstances to be considered . |
| 20 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 21 | That fact that , since Vendelin Gajdusek had apparently never been interviewed by any journalist , he would not see anything out of the ordinary in her particular interviewing technique . |
| 22 | He could get items that had once been owned by this author or that author , and there was a market for these , particularly for letters . |
| 23 | The internal politics of the profession in a recession economy have not been resolved by this scheme ( Smith and Thomas 1978 ) but it illustrates the irrecon-cilable tensions between individual economic advancement , collegiate unity and community/client interest , tensions which were recognised by our respondents . |
| 24 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 25 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 26 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 27 | These camps have been attacked by both government forces and the SNM , with at least 241 refugees killed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 30 | The only occasion upon which they appear to have been considered by this court was in Reg. v. McNiff [ 1986 ] Crim.L.R. 57 , in respect of which we have been helpfully provided with a transcript of the judgment . |