Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Plouviez commented : ‘ The hoard must have been hidden by a wealthy family around 1,600 years ago . |
| 2 | The book had been published in March 1990 , and the case against Hamid had previously been dismissed by a civil court in May 1991 . |
| 3 | Appeal lost AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB , to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 4 | AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 5 | In the 1989 case , magma was forced into two arms of an underground fissure network ( northeast and south-southeast of the southeast crater ) but may have been stopped by a structural boundary ( the caldera del Piano ) seen on the surface as a break in slope and encompassing the southeast crater and stations Belvedere and TDF ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 6 | The woman has turned down the offer of a caravan , and an attempt to buy her a seventy thousand pound house has been stopped by a public outcry . |
| 7 | Fundamental policies have been overturned by a remote headquarters ( ie the Scottish Office ) in a fashion that is neither accountable nor responsive . |
| 8 | Myeloski had been joined by a young woman in her early twenties . |
| 9 | However , in recent years Conservative ministers have been irritated by a steady trickle of government defeats in the Upper House . |
| 10 | Hugh was not an absolutely brilliant solicitor but he knew when he 'd been out-manoeuvred by a ruthless opponent . |
| 11 | One day , soon after the girl 's departure , Tom had complained of pains in his chest after digging the new potato patch , a job which had formerly been undertaken by a youthful employee who had also disappeared into the army . |
| 12 | Clearly , the specialists who see most cases are either venereologists or dermatologists , but many 's the case of secondary syphilis that has been treated by a general practitioner or physician with a variety of ointments or creams to great effect — syphilis having the doctor-flattering attribute of ‘ getting better ’ whatever the treatment . |
| 13 | Second , there is personal experience of homoeopathy through having been treated by a homoeopathic doctor , or through having had a member of the family so treated , and being impressed by the results . |
| 14 | ( This is consistent with the existence of the 14-km-wide Lappajârvi crater in Finland , apparently the result of an impactor of carbonaceous chondritic composition ; this crater would have been excavated by a carbonaceous asteroid 1km in diameter . ) |
| 15 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 16 | In particular , concern over the country 's widening trade deficit had been compounded by a sharp fall in foreign exchange reserves from a peak of US$1,007 million in February 1989 to around US$450,000,000 in March 1990 . |
| 17 | Recently , he confesses , he has been plagued by a recurring dream in which all these Hollywood types he barely knows are asking to borrow his toothbrush . |
| 18 | A novel approach has recently been developed by a Japanese group . |
| 19 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
| 20 | And none of them fails to recognise where these negative feelings come from , that such feelings have been taught by a particular upbringing and environment . |
| 21 | If the act should have been foreseen by a reasonable man as likely , it would not break the chain of causation . |
| 22 | His whole being had been consumed by a passionate longing to return . |
| 23 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 24 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 25 | The number of recorded hearths may even be a clue as to whether or not a house had been completed by a particular date . |
| 26 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 27 | For years , I , too , have been hounded by a strange man and am currently following Bonham Carter 's example by marking out a map excluding him from my life . |
| 28 | Judge Crawford , 55 , has been carpeted by a senior judge . |
| 29 | However , price movements were said to have been exaggerated by a distinct lack of spare stock , with many market makers struggling to fill a series of programme and basket trades . |
| 30 | ‘ This tendency has been exaggerated by a steady increase in the number of art journalists , while true critics , the sort of committed people who , twenty years ago , were instrumental in influencing public tastes , are in decline ’ . |