Example sentences of "been a [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |
| 2 | It is not actually brought to the United Kingdom and if it is brought then it is brought by the lender and , following Carter v Sharon 20 TC 229 , that will not have been a remittance by the relevant taxpayer . |
| 3 | At home in Northumberland long ago , there had been a painting by Sickert whose poignancy and brilliance had stopped him nightly on his way to bed . |
| 4 | There has been a campaign by Customs & Excise , intensifying as the year has gone on , with valuable assistance from the accountancy profession , Sitpro ( Simpler Trade Procedures Board ) and similar bodies , to ensure that businesses buying or selling goods within the European market know what the changes to the collection of VAT and related statistics will entail . |
| 5 | For the Securities and Investments Board , which neogtiated the original sorry deal , and for the AFBD , the episode has been a baptism by fire . |
| 6 | It had been a baptism by fire , but she had come through . |
| 7 | Recently , there has been a movement by leasehold flat owners to band together , form a management company and buy up their own freeholds , thus ensuring that their ground rents remain low . |
| 8 | Interestingly , Hardy thinks this may have been a set-up by a protective Burton to put his new posh friend off acting altogether : for Philip discouraged Hardy . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 10 | Similarly , there has often been a reluctance by specialist departmental officers to accept the decisions of non-specialist chief executives and management teams . |
| 11 | In recent years , the Committee has noted , with disappointment , that the new Legal Aid Board was not ‘ a Legal Services Board with overall responsibility for legal aid and legal services ’ ; that the present system could not be said to constitute a ‘ comprehensive system of legal services offering good early advice ’ ; and that in considering reform to the legal profession , there had been a failure by government ‘ to examine the place that lawyers ’ services should occupy in the field of legal services as a whole . ’ |
| 12 | The only government support so far has been a recommendation by the Rural Development Commission , part of the Department of the Environment , to establish a pilot scheme . |
| 13 | During the course of the decade , with or without partners , Noell took on the farming of more revenues , and in 1657–9 he was co-postmaster-general with John Thurloe [ q.v. ] , who may have been a relative by marriage . |
| 14 | There has been a move by the Norwegian government to try to tax the Lapps on the basis of reindeer numbers , and almost overnight the Arctic was denuded of animals , at least on paper . |
| 15 | His wife had been an islander by birth and after she died he decided to live there where they had spent many happy holidays . |
| 16 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 17 | A spokesman said this afternoon ’ There has been an error by Thames Valley Police . |
| 18 | Indeed this could be their base value for capital gains tax purposes by virtue of s17 TCGA 1992 if there has been an acquisition by management in consideration for or in recognition of their services in any office or employment , though usually management will resist any such argument . |
| 19 | It may have simply been an offer by Roe which he could n't afford to ignore . |
| 20 | Behind the decline in asylum applications to France has been an effort by the French government to clear the backlog . |
| 21 | The motive for Nepomuk 's canonisation appears to have been an attempt by the Jesuits to set up an alternative national hero to the heretical Hus . |
| 22 | An exciting development in the women 's movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women . |
| 23 | Troon , who had first presented the government with the findings of his investigation in September 1990 , also stated that he believed that there had been an attempt by Biwott and top-level security officials to hamper his investigations . |