Example sentences of "been [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the total retail trading area is unchanged at the period end there are in fact two different underlying elements new footage has been laid down in France but this has been off set by a net reduction in the retail trading area in the U K. The sales per square foot which excludes retail sales and is based on the waiting average trading area shows an increase of seven point two percent A low margin of fifty five point six per cent was down from fifty eight point five per cent in the same period last this , this was mainly due to a drop in in-house manufacturing participation and adverse exchange rates . |
| 2 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 3 | The Christian town of Zahle , which had been under siege by leftist militias , was now open to visitors and traffic , the Syrians cooperating openly with the local Phalangist defenders . |
| 4 | ‘ A particular blackspot was the port of Kaffa in the Crimea , which had been under siege by the Mongols . |
| 5 | The Fort had been under siege by guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE — the main Tamil separatist group ) since the eruption of the recent bout of hostilities in June [ see pp. 37529-30 ; 37611 ; 37654 ] . |
| 6 | On Jan. 8 the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) announced that the village of Rashaf , situated on the edge of the zone , had been under siege by the SLA since late December . |
| 7 | Copies of the transitional government 's broad economic programme , which had been under discussion by the Council of Representatives in October and November , became freely available to the public in early December . |
| 8 | The alleged conspirators had been under surveillance by customs officers for some time before arrest . |
| 9 | Kayley had been under observation by Nurse Motley and Beverley Allitt , 24 , who denies murdering four child patients and attempting to murder nine others , including Kayley , at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991 . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have thought they would have been in contact by now , ’ said secretary David Bowen . |
| 11 | For example , suppose that last year people expected a rate of inflation this year of 10 per cent ; if the actual rate turns out to be 16 per cent , the expectation will have been in error by 6 per cent . |
| 12 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 13 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 14 | Of course we 've been in touch by phone but I wanted to see how things were … |
| 15 | If he has n't been in touch by phone in a week , I 'll phone him . |
| 16 | The day when Britain 's independent power producers will be able to sell competitively and freely into a European grid as a matter of right would seem to be a long way off , despite the fact that this was all supposed to have been in place by the end of 1992 . |
| 17 | This particular model 's been in use by the RAF since 1958 . |
| 18 | A million copies are estimated to have been in circulation by 1524 . |
| 19 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 20 | Then , too , a demand for a public inquiry into drug safety was turned down — the minister was Dr David Owen — as it had earlier been over thalidomide by David Ennals . |
| 21 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |