Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 2 | Interestingly , emphasis has been placed by the decision-makers within these bodies on the individuality of the complainant . |
| 3 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 4 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 5 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 6 | The search for characteristics which are common to all services has floundered and attempts to treat the services as a homogeneous group have been plagued by the differences between services , in the kinds of labour involved , the type of work performed and the nature of the product . |
| 7 | Small notebook systems have already been developed by the likes of Tandy Grid , NCR and Apple , and some of them are already use for simple form filling applications like supermarket stocktaking or car fleet management . |
| 8 | The teaching equipment on WISE VI has been developed by the Faculties of Engineering and Environmental Studies , and the WISE Vehicle Programme Unit . |
| 9 | Léonie kept her hands outside the covers as she had been taught by the nuns at her primary school . |
| 10 | The distinction is explicable on the basis that directorship has not been regarded by the courts as a profession , and hence a director is not expected to satisfy a higher standard , for example that of the reasonably competent business manager , simply by virtue of holding office . |
| 11 | Both those obstacles had been foreseen by the anti-Keynesians at the Treasury thirty years before . |
| 12 | They have been gulled by the promises of the men that they will have better work , better wages , better conditions . |
| 13 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 14 | It is obvious that the remaining members of the Commission of Enquiry must have been shaken by the events in God 's Gift . |
| 15 | Several complaints from local residents have been received by the police regarding the unsocial behaviour and vandalism of youths in the park . |
| 16 | Last night Liverpool council commented in a statement : ‘ These matters have now been resolved by the courts after one of the most thorough investigations ever undertaken into any council 's affairs . ’ |
| 17 | If many of the key issues which had divided the Whigs and the Tories during Charles II 's reign had not been resolved by the events of 1688 – 9 , their context had certainly been altered . |
| 18 | We will be tracing its pervasive effects below , firstly in relation to the largely untrammelled sentencing powers that have traditionally been enjoyed by the courts in England , and secondly in inhibiting policy initiatives that have sought to substitute an element of strategic planning for the policy vacuum that continues to characterize the English sentencing system . |
| 19 | SINN FEIN president Gerry Adams has been attacked by the parents of Warrington bomb victim Tim Parry for refusing to meet them face-to-face and explain why their son died . |
| 20 | A police strike in Caracas was ended on June 10 when 600 troops were sent into police stations which had been occupied by the strikers for two days in protest at low wages and the dismissal of 10 officers . |
| 21 | The place had been occupied by the Americans for ten days or more , but 9th Air Force was flying missions down to the south and Czechoslovakia until the end of the month . |
| 22 | The place which they once occupied on the constitutional stages has now been occupied by the organs of local government . |
| 23 | If Turenne and Gustavus were the leading soldiers on the Protestant side , then Tilly and Wallenstein were the leading figures in the armies of Ferdinand , who had himself been educated by the Jesuits at Ingolstadt . |
| 24 | This brought a titter , although not from the ‘ chair ’ , who had herself been educated by the successors of Miss Beale and Miss Buss . |
| 25 | Many of the victims were in poor health and , in some cases , had been incarcerated by the police on the assumption that they were drunk when in fact they were suffering from diseases which were life-threatening when treatment was withheld . |
| 26 | The question of justifiability has been considered by the courts in a number of employment cases , where it has been construed most recently as meaning that the discriminatory effect of the requirement or condition must be weighed against its ‘ reasonable necessity ’ for the purposes of the business enterprise in question . |
| 27 | In the PC world , the usability debate has been hijacked by the purveyors of graphical user interfaces , such as Microsoft 's own Windows . |
| 28 | For almost half a century the housing question had been dominated by the problems of insanitary , unfit dwellings and the association with overcrowding and ill health . |
| 29 | Bristol had been dominated by the Whigs since 1695 , and had fallen to the Tories only in 1710 in the Sacheverellite backlash , so Daines had good reason to believe that a careful cultivation of the electorate could pay dividends . |
| 30 | The strike was continued for another four days , partly to show that it had not been panicked by the killings into throwing up its responsibilities and partly to ensure that persons on unemployment insurance and social benefits received payment for a full week . |