Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 2 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 3 | Erm I think before I start , it 's very very important , as has been pointed out by the previous two speakers , that we actually make a practical response to the closure of Hospital . |
| 4 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 5 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 6 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 7 | But Koch , sporting a crew shirt with a bullseye target on the back — ‘ when anything bad happens I seem to get blamed ’ — said his camp had been caught out by the light winds in the semi-final . |
| 8 | First , some of our clients have been caught out by the different definitions for Pay As You Earn and National Insurance Contributions purposes . |
| 9 | It 's also potentially the most disastrous — even Rainey has been caught out by the painful highside crash . |
| 10 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 11 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 12 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 13 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 14 | No I 've been picked out by the British Market Research Bureau |
| 15 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 16 | This work has been carried out by a small group of volunteers ( three to four persons ) . |
| 17 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 18 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 19 | Certain aspects of environmental monitoring have long been carried out by the private sector , notably that of crop states on a world-wide basis . |
| 20 | Much of the insurgent activity was believed to have been carried out by the United Lao National Liberation Front . |
| 21 | Yeah , well John 's been done down by the black people ! |
| 22 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 23 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 24 | The ban has been pushed through by the Labour group which regained control of the county council in May . |
| 25 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 26 | However , the Jordanian government considered that a further US$40,000,000 owed to Saudi Arabia since the mid-1980s had previously been written off by the Saudi ruler King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz . |
| 27 | Neff 's approach was to produce corporate performance charts of his firm 's most successful clients , indicating that their fortunes had been turned around by the strategic recruitment of executives headhunted for them by Spencer Stuart . |
| 28 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 29 | PLANS to convert a house in Palace Avenue , Rhyl , into separate flats have been turned down by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 30 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |