Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 2 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It looked like Postine had been crushed instantly by the collapsing temple . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The miracle accounts have been developed both by the early Church and the Evangelists to say something important about Jesus . |
| 8 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 9 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 10 | On 3 April , Raybestos denied in a statement that any irregularities had taken place : ‘ The condition of the waste disposal site has been checked frequently by the proper authorities , Cork County Council and the IIRS . |
| 11 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 12 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | First , some of our clients have been caught out by the different definitions for Pay As You Earn and National Insurance Contributions purposes . |
| 15 | It 's also potentially the most disastrous — even Rainey has been caught out by the painful highside crash . |
| 16 | No profession wor-thy of the name has ever been impelled merely by the monetary reward . |
| 17 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 18 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | No I 've been picked out by the British Market Research Bureau |
| 21 | Certain aspects of environmental monitoring have long been carried out by the private sector , notably that of crop states on a world-wide basis . |
| 22 | Much of the insurgent activity was believed to have been carried out by the United Lao National Liberation Front . |
| 23 | They complained pursuant to section 83(1) of and paragraph 1 of Part III of Schedule 12 to , the Act to the first defendant , the ombudsman appointed under the Building Societies Ombudsman Scheme set up under the Act that their valuations had been prepared negligently by the professional valuers , who in each case were employees of the plaintiff societies , who were all members of the scheme . |
| 24 | It had been prepared originally by the secret society he had joined two years earlier after being forced off his own rice lands for nonpayment of taxes , and he had copied it out dozens of times already in trying to win new recruits for the society in remote jungle villages far from Saigon . |
| 25 | Yeah , well John 's been done down by the black people ! |
| 26 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 27 | This technique has been applied extensively by the present project to the problem of discriminating between different candidate words in a single sentential position ( rather than different senses of the same word ) . |
| 28 | The ban has been pushed through by the Labour group which regained control of the county council in May . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |