Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 2 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 3 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 4 | ‘ So far in our investigation we are aware of at least ten loyalist prisoners who have been interviewed by the same policemen . |
| 5 | I believe the Gold Award has never been won by the same publication two years running , so after our success last year I thought BNFL news would be out of the frame . |
| 6 | It incorporated a common interface component allowing the use of different operating systems and this part had been added by a former employee of the plaintiff who had a similar program and interface . |
| 7 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 8 | They do not , like other fines , go into the public purse but into the pocket of victims who have already been compensated by the same jury for damage to their reputation . |
| 9 | They could have been made by the same craftsman . |
| 10 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 11 | Two building societies and a bank have been robbed by the same man in less than three hours . |
| 12 | The Government has been told by the former Lord-Justice General that its appointment of temporary judges in Scotland 's courts could lead to miscarriages of justice . |
| 13 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , where substantial quantities of the same material equipment or products are discovered , archaeologists tend to assume that they must have been produced by the same people . |
| 15 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 16 | If several actions have been performed by the same people then , if the sentences describing the events are active , the same subject will have to be repeated , e.g. : |
| 17 | The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints . |
| 18 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 19 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
| 20 | We should be careful not to look only at our friends and colleagues whose style may have been affected by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 21 | We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 22 | In this respect his art and that of the New Sculptors differed little from the earlier romantic neo-classicism of a sculptor like , whose work would nevertheless have been decried by the same practitioners as cold and outmoded . |
| 23 | The Bavaria brand bottles and Royal Dutch Post Horn Lagers , which are both sold mostly in corner shop off-licences , have been hit by the same problem affecting Heineken Export Lager . |
| 24 | Two other garages have been hit by the same man in just 6 days and a police helicopter is on standby to track him next time he strikes . |
| 25 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
| 26 | From the beginning Jarrad had been run by the same directors as Jesner and run in good faith in what the directors perceived to be in the family 's interest . |
| 27 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |
| 28 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 29 | This group of regna had seldom been ruled by the same person before 840 ; and after 840 , continuing or permanent union was not foreseen . |
| 30 | Strictly speaking , the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was a new state , yet most of its components were ancient and had long been ruled by the same family . |