Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the plaintiff passenger 's damages were reduced by 20 per cent because he had been out drinking with the defendant driver and a lot of beer had been consumed by both the plaintiff and the defendant . |
| 2 | The second approach , occupational structure , has been invalidated by both the population turnaround and the loss of agricultural employment already discussed , but it did once allow a reasonable classification to be made consisting of agricultural-rural , rural and rural-urban ( Robertson , 1961 ) . |
| 3 | A situation like this could have been resolved by either the workers in the marketed sector accepting lower wages , or the employers accepting lower profits or a combination of the two . |
| 4 | This has been done by both the BBC and the " Sunday Times " . |
| 5 | The appeal had been lodged by both the prosecution and the defence . |
| 6 | The by-election had been billed by both the NP and the CP as a test of white opinion on constitutional change . |
| 7 | The management of our schools has been conditioned by both the ideology and practice of hierarchy and control to a point at which , in some cases , it must attract the pejorative term of managerialism , a condition under which the artificial needs of managers , organisations , systems , bureaucracies or routines assume dominance over the real needs of children . |
| 8 | Foremost among these are the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) which , along with the parks , had been proposed by both the Dower and the Hobhouse Reports . |
| 9 | On Jan. 14 Richard Goldstone , chair of an independent judicial commission of inquiry established in September 1991 under the terms of the national peace accord [ see p. 38422 ] , said that he had been asked by both the government and the ANC to investigate allegations of SADF complicity in killings in black townships . |
| 10 | These elections , the first to be called since 1963 , had been opposed by both the PLO and Jordan . |
| 11 | The distinction had been criticised by both the Law Society and the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee from its inception . |