Example sentences of "been [verb] by that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In fact , I may have been lulled by that into an unwise bravado . |
| 3 | Mr Major said at question time : ‘ Decent families everywhere will have been sickened by that cold-blooded attack on innocent people going about peaceful business on a spring Saturday lunchtime . ’ |
| 4 | Maybe , however , someone 's memory will have been nudged by that photo flashed on television screens six weeks ago . |
| 5 | It has been prepared by that august body , the Industrial Society and indicates that many secretaries feel trapped in their jobs . |
| 6 | I 'm delighted that justice has been done by that poor horse ) |
| 7 | However , studies have shown ( Hood , 1962 , 1972 ; Parker et al. , 1999 ) that the chief formative influence on sentencing practice in magistrates ' courts is not the law or the advice received from other professionals in court , nor even the way similar cases have been decided by that particular court in the past . |
| 8 | 1982 No. 1676 ) ) regulating the practice on appeal to the Judicial Committee , an appeal from the Court of Appeal of New Zealand can be entertained only if leave to appeal has been granted by that court or if special leave has been granted by Her Majesty in Council . |
| 9 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 10 | Nonsense , because almost without exception the candidates themselves will have been selected by that supposedly indifferent party machine . |
| 11 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 12 | The capitalism of the Chicago meatyards has been replaced by that of the information system ; ‘ … organizations have shed more than one million managers and staff professionals since 1979. … technology will enable senior management to monitor and control large organizations more effectively … |
| 13 | I refer to trading in stolen documents with the Labour party — a practice that has not , I believe , yet been condemned by that party . |
| 14 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 15 | She had thought her daughter was pure and good , and she had been gratified by that . |
| 16 | Mr Rowland 's bitter campaign of vengeance has been driven by that affront . |
| 17 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 18 | Well John Hume 's meetings with Gerry Addams have been overshadowed by that meeting between the prime ministers of Great Britain and the Irish Republic , overshadowed and overtaken , according to Mr Major , I talked about that to John Hume a little earlier this morning , but I began by asking for his reaction to the latest murders . |
| 19 | However , AJ had been identified by that police officer and another officer ( who did not identify TJ ) ; and the correct identification of AJ was in itself relevant to the accuracy of the same witness 's identification of TJ ( Castle [ 1989 ] Crim.L.R. 567 ) . |
| 20 | His voice was low , easy , the faint accent she 'd barely noticed before more pronounced now , unless it was just that her senses had been heightened by that devastatingly thorough kiss . |
| 21 | If the machine has not been delivered by that date , the buyer can treat the failure to deliver as a breach of a condition and he can cancel the contract as time for delivery is usually construed as being a condition ; see Hartley v Hyams [ 1920 ] . |
| 22 | Over the last 12 years , he claims , the council has been short-changed by that amount on its housing allocation demands . |
| 23 | It 's been killed by that old mad woman . |
| 24 | It is usually easier , however , to turn to an early volume of the Victoria County History of England ( in counties which have been covered by that enterprise ) , where all the nineteenth-century data are listed in tabular form . |
| 25 | In ‘ The disappearance ’ , Imamu has to prove that he had nothing to do with Perk 's disappearance by finding her dead body in someone else 's house having been murdered by that person and Boo has to risk his own life in order to save that of Scout 's before his most ignorant neighbours realise he 's not a squirrel eating monster . |
| 26 | A familiar scene , yet one that had changed subtly since yesterday — just as everything else had been changed by that newspaper item , the whole of her life being undermined making her feel that nothing was quite as it had seemed . |