Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been conflicting opinions by individual judges on whether injuries must be sustained by a living person before next-of-kin could sue . |
| 2 | For those who have already been married , there had been pre-marital cohabitation by 62 per cent of women remarrying aged under 25 years , and 74 per cent remarrying between 25 and 34 years . |
| 3 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 4 | There have been dark mutterings by conspiracy theorists about the election result . |
| 5 | There had been intensive campaigning by the proponents of each city over the preceding months . |
| 6 | But there has been endless comment by members of the Labour Party leadership as well as others about the outcome of the election and it is still going on . |
| 7 | You yourself provided detailed pointers to the inner workings of ‘ The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors , Even ’ , in ‘ The Green Box ’ , which is a sort of instruction manual , and there have also been numerous commentaries by critics . |
| 8 | There have been occasional sorties by the BNP in local by-elections , but none has been a particularly significant performance . |
| 9 | For example , a statement by the vendor that there have been various disputes by the employees completely undermines the warranty . |
| 10 | Is it simply been financial restraint by all those companies that that there is n't . |
| 11 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |
| 12 | Although an official inquiry had found in October 1988 that there were no grounds to conclude that the DTI 's handling of the affair had caused the investors ' losses , in his report the Ombudsman had identified five areas in which there had been significant maladministration by the DTI of the Barlow Clowes affair . |
| 13 | The Monastery of Santa de Nogueira had been imported stone by stone from Portugal to the Gila Desert , Arizona , in 1819 , and abandoned after the Mexican-American War . |