Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [adj] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They suspect that she may really be able to hear — but has been struck dumb by some sort of shock . |
| 2 | They suspect that she may really be able to hear — but has been struck dumb by some sort of shock . |
| 3 | Like Peru , it has been made poorer by persistent misgovernment . |
| 4 | Alton has been put first by alphabetical chance , not for preference . |
| 5 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 6 | It is shown that there was very often little to be gained from approaching government institutions with attitudes which would have been considered proper by British administrators . |
| 7 | A decade ago this sight would have been deemed impossible by most readers . |
| 8 | Dance seems to have been affected most by psychological studies initiated by Freud and others and first exploited by Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman . |
| 9 | Under a dark pullover without elbows he was wearing a Levi shirt that appeared to have been sucked colourless by some dog . |
| 10 | The migrations had been made possible by geological changes temporarily removing barriers such as the English Channel , or opening up new routes through the creation of land-bridges . |
| 11 | This phrase , the force of which may be lost on the present generation , had been made familiar by another Miss West , the buxom and sultry film-star ; the similarity of nomenclature was a coincidence of which Eliot took full advantage . |
| 12 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn hit back saying the Tories were rattled by the campaign and the people of Darlington had been made poorer by 13 years of Conservative misrule . |
| 13 | Pangenesis was never , however , to meet the vera causa evidential ideal , as Darwin himself was keenly aware , and he published it only after natural selection had been launched unencumbered by any such conjectural causation for generation . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's probably sour grapes after they 've been beaten 4-2 by nine men . |
| 15 | Conditions have been made worse by intense heat and the continuing drought . |
| 16 | It would appear that the above problems have been made worse by some of the recent frequency reallocations , and the lack of awareness of the Authority concerning these matters is quite astounding . |
| 17 | Observation and participation in the installation ceremonies are to be the major tools of research and have been made possible by earlier field-work . |
| 18 | A politics of the future has to engage with , learn from , the new , never to be simply satisfied with tracking opinion polls or empty gestures but empowering those who have been left cold by all our agendas . |
| 19 | Inevitably you will hear the cries of squabbling amongst your forces and realise that , once again , your best laid plans have been laid low by some dispute in the ranks . |
| 20 | He says transport is very very cheap for firms and it 's been made cheaper by successive governments building more roads to help freight and also by raising the weight limits so that we 've got bigger and bigger lorries . |