Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] by the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 8 | Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ONCE again , we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 13 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 18 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 19 | It could , because you could put and a sailing boat might have been pushed on by the tide . |
| 20 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 21 | The moves were the first steps in a longer-term support package for the former Soviet republics , estimated at US$24,000 million , which had been mapped out by the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38888 ] . |
| 22 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 23 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |
| 24 | Later , it emerged that Caledonian Mining had sought a controlling interest rather than an outright takeover , but had been turned down by the consortium . |
| 25 | ‘ But we are a bit concerned that they have been barricaded in by the Coal Board , so even if they want to , they can not get out . |
| 26 | The tribe has suffered from repeated massacres by prospectors and settlers and their land has been opened up by the construction of the Carajás railway . |
| 27 | Panalpina have been handed down by the House of Lords . |
| 28 | I think that is an absolute fantasy and I think that it is er perhaps going too far in our denigration of members of local authorities to think their attitude towards their police force would be in any way changed , were some of the members to be appointed from a list which had been drawn up by the Home Secretary . |
| 29 | The disclosure letter had been drawn up by the defendant on this belief and by its actions the plaintiff was estopped from complaining that the fact should have been included in the disclosure letter . |
| 30 | Suppose now that Pry and the seller of the house have reached agreement on the sale , but no formal acceptance of Pry 's offer has been drawn up by the seller 's solicitors . |