Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
7 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
12 | Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ONCE again , we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
18 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |
21 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
22 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
23 | In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer . |
24 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
25 | A reconnaissance stream sediment survey has been carried out by the MRP over much of the orefield ( MRP 5 ) . |
26 | Perhaps the most sustained research into speech recognition has been carried out by the IBM speech group which started work on the production of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system in 1972 . |
27 | The ground will be the first all-grassed cricketing venue in Spain , and both the installation of an irrigation system and the seeding of the site have been carried out by the members themselves . |
28 | The groundwork had been carried out by the Southampton Special Unit and Vigilant and Venturous had been deployed to cover the approaches to the Solent and Poole Harbour . |
29 | I can not prove that but I do not think that the tests which have been carried out by the County Council refute that possibility . |
30 | ( 10 ) If the property is leasehold : ( a ) please confirm that the seller has complied with all the covenants in the lease ; ( b ) does the seller know whether any items of substantial expenditure for decoration , maintenance or repair have been carried out by the lessors recently but not yet charged to tenants , or are any such contemplated in the near future ? ( 11 ) Is the seller aware of any overriding interest under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ? ( 12 ) Please confirm : ( a ) that all gas and electrical installations are the seller 's absolute property and are included in the purchase price ; ( b ) that the electric light installations down to the bulb holders will be left intact ; ( c ) that all furniture , furnishings and fittings not included in the sale and all rubbish will be removed before completion . |