Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , there were some who had been bought by ORDEN , even secondary school pupils who were members of the Paramilitary groups . |
| 2 | The clearest example of this is patient 203 from family 2 who has been shown by molecular studies to possess the faulty APC gene . |
| 3 | : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ . |
| 4 | He was conspicuously trying to be brave , but it was quite clear he had been devastated by the experience . |
| 5 | Bristol University Student Union declined to join the protest , afraid it had been hijacked by extremists . |
| 6 | CD describes a ‘ piece of water in the midst ’ but although there was originally a fountain there , by 1780 it had been displaced by the plinth of the present statue of William III added in 1808 , BR 70 . |
| 7 | Ever since he was two years old he had been captivated by the pictures of the fiery beasts in The Octarine Fairy Book . |
| 8 | The legislation , which amounted to a substitute for that which had been vetoed by Bush in November 1990 , required written presidential approval before covert action was undertaken by any component of the US government . |
| 9 | The bill , which was likely to be considered by the full Senate after the summer recess , was similar to that which had been approved by the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives on June 30 . |
| 10 | Another approach to the problem of chronic prescribing is that which has been developed by Vithoulkas in Greece , Orthega in Mexico , and Masi and Paschero in Argentina — that of finding the essence of the remedies , or the scarlet thread or idea running through all the various aspects of the remedy picture . |
| 11 | Intellectual honesty may well require a better explanation as to why an act is unreasonable than that which has been provided by the courts using traditional techniques of review . |
| 12 | The last words in the manual before the index read ( p 232 ) : ‘ By legal definition , correct first aid practice is that which has been approved by the Voluntary Aid Societies for publication in this book , where this has been used in the training of the First Aider . ’ |
| 13 | She was most amusing , and described how much she had been abused by reviewers and how one man wrote to her asking her to explain what on earth her books were all about , and enclosed a stamped and addressed envelope for her reply — ‘ I used it when I was paying a bill ’ . |
| 14 | It was only now that she was happy with the girls in Littlewood 's Pools that Joe realised how much she had been hurt by the cattiness in her previous job . |
| 15 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 16 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |
| 17 | After the death of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway at the battle of Svold in 999 it had been ruled by Earl Eric of Lade and his brother Swegen under the sovereignty of Cnut 's father ; according to later Scandinavian tradition , Eric married Swegen Forkbeard 's daughter Gytha . |
| 18 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 19 | Dot was glad she 'd been warned by the dancing man because there was no warning from Gloria . |
| 20 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 21 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 22 | By and large they 've been replaced by computers now . |
| 23 | Each one had been accompanied by a love letter and she 'd kept them all . |
| 24 | In June 1830 , the Duke of Bedford presented a small bronze bust of Samuel Whitbread II which had been executed by George Garrard in 1820 . |
| 25 | The hearts of all who have been moved by Lizzie 's singing go out to Brian in his loss . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation ; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague . |
| 27 | He was of course referring to the members of the Legitimist aristocracy , still loyal to ‘ Henry V ’ , the last of the elder Bourbon line , the grandson of Charles X who had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 and who lived in exile at Frohsdorf in Bohemia . |
| 28 | For systems which have evolved on the basis of operational experience rather than those which have been created by a formal design process , job analysis rather than task analysis may be the starting point of human factors studies . |
| 29 | The Rules of the Fire Offices ' Committee and the Fire Offices ' Committee of Ireland for the Construction of Buildings are those which have been adopted by the Insurance companies , members of the Committee , for the classification of buildings and are based on two grades of construction . |
| 30 | The vines must not be suffering from any disease , nor should the leaves be those which have been distorted by herbicides . |