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 | There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jack speculated that perhaps there had been some interference by a superior , or that vandals may have seen the lonely outpost as a target for action . |
| 6 | There have been dark mutterings by conspiracy theorists about the election result . |
| 7 | I would n't have been much competition by the side of sexy George , but still , a man has his pride . |
| 8 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 9 | There had been intensive campaigning by the proponents of each city over the preceding months . |
| 10 | On we went , it must have been three hours by now . |
| 11 | Essentially there have been three methods by which new subject areas have joined the Modular Course . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |
| 15 | There have been occasional sorties by the BNP in local by-elections , but none has been a particularly significant performance . |
| 16 | For example , a statement by the vendor that there have been various disputes by the employees completely undermines the warranty . |
| 17 | Has there been any attempt by anybody to real budget or has |
| 18 | Since the group of seven meeting in Venice there have been several statements by the group referring to the world economy and the need for intensified policy coordination . |
| 19 | In West Germany , on the other hand , there has been greater emphasis by unions upon legislative enactment to further their general objectives since , historically , the unions accepted the republic created after World War I as being ‘ their ’ state and consequently pressed for government legislation in the social and labour field ( Günter and Leminsky , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Is it simply been financial restraint by all those companies that that there is n't . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even back then , when the world was connected differently , it had been seven miles by road to the nearest town of any size , and that easier to get to by the river . |