Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [adj] by [det] " 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 | A decade ago this sight would have been deemed impossible by most readers . |
| 4 | Under a dark pullover without elbows he was wearing a Levi shirt that appeared to have been sucked colourless by some dog . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |