Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 2 | Exploitation of AI techniques has been limited primarily by the scarcity of AI skills among RAF personnel . |
| 3 | This has been refuted both by the success rate of absent healing and trials on non-suggestible organisms such as the sick cress seeds healed by Boltwood in recent experiments at London University . |
| 4 | The scene had been altered only by the season . |
| 5 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 6 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 7 | We never had had them , and we 've been criticized recently by the Inspector , because of that . |
| 8 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 9 | Her entrance had clearly been arranged beforehand by the Headmistress . |
| 10 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 11 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 12 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 13 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 14 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 15 | Lord 's silence over Lamb has been broken only by the swish , frantic swish of sweeping every inconvenient fact under the Long Room carpet , now piled so high that Chris Bonnington might not scale it ! |
| 16 | He carried a stick to aid his ailing right leg which had been broken deliberately by the STB while he was in prison . |
| 17 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 18 | The artwork and mission tallies had been stripped away by the end of September . |
| 19 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 20 | Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects . |
| 21 | Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line . |
| 22 | In fact , Caernarfon is the nearest building Wales has to a royal palace having been owned continuously by the Crown ever since Edward I established it in 1283 . |
| 23 | The housewives and small restaurateurs who rely upon the professional skill of charcutiers and pâtissiers for a part of their supplies see to it that the pâtés and sausages , the little salads for hors-d'oeuvre , the galantines and terrines and fish quenelles , the hams and tongues and pies , pastries and fruit flans , the petits fours and the croissants maintain high standards of freshness and excellence , and that any popular regional speciality of the district continues to be cooked with the right and proper traditional ingredients , even if the methods have been speeded up by the introduction of modern machinery . |
| 24 | ONCE again , we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns . |
| 25 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |
| 26 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 27 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 28 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 29 | No p what Peter said was , if it has n't been picked up by the lab and it 's an internal problem , it can be dealt with internally . |
| 30 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |