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 . |