Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] by the [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 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 5 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | First , some of our clients have been caught out by the different definitions for Pay As You Earn and National Insurance Contributions purposes . |
| 8 | It 's also potentially the most disastrous — even Rainey has been caught out by the painful highside crash . |
| 9 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 10 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No I 've been picked out by the British Market Research Bureau |
| 13 | Certain aspects of environmental monitoring have long been carried out by the private sector , notably that of crop states on a world-wide basis . |
| 14 | Much of the insurgent activity was believed to have been carried out by the United Lao National Liberation Front . |
| 15 | Yeah , well John 's been done down by the black people ! |
| 16 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 17 | The ban has been pushed through by the Labour group which regained control of the county council in May . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | A proposal by the unit to investigate engineering research has recently been turned down by the Social Science Research Council . |
| 22 | A major mining project has been turned down by the Australian Labour government in favour of preserving species unique to the area and defending the land rights of Aborigines . |
| 23 | He said Mr McGuigan had applied for a weapon and been turned down by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 24 | Inflation has taxed most Russians massively ; but whereas households have suffered these losses in full , Russia 's state-owned enterprises have , in effect , been bailed out by the central bank . |
| 25 | Further proposals for defence cuts had been drawn up by the armed forces in November 1989 on Cheney 's orders , in an effort to save some $180,000 million in the period to 1994 . |
| 26 | Last week , in a stormy session , the European Parliament threw out a voluntary code proposed by officials at the European Commission , which had been drawn up by the baby-food companies themselves . |
| 27 | The elections were to a 360-member House of Representatives as stipulated under the Constitution which had been drawn up by the military and promulgated in December 1991 [ see p. 38681 ] . |
| 28 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 29 | Plans to charge businesses for the pollution of Britain 's waterways have been drawn up by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) for implementation in July . |
| 30 | These achievements have not been wiped out by the past year . |