Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 2 | However the balance has been somewhat redressed by recruitment to the BA courses and by in-service courses for qualified teachers which in 1982 raised its student numbers to about 385 . |
| 3 | But would n't cricket have been better served by frankness from the outset and an early investigation of suspicions concerning Pakistan ? |
| 4 | In each of these appeals it has been rightly accepted by counsel for the contemnor that the hearing below of the committal application was impeccable , that the sentence imposed for the contempts of court found proved can not be criticised and the committal order properly specified each of the contempts for which the contemnor had been sentenced . |
| 5 | The staircase was ornamented at intervals with classical figures , chastely draped , and there was still a sweet primness in the graceful propriety of their attitudes though some were lacking a hand or an arm and others had had their noses rot away or even been entirely decapitated by exposure to the elements , and all were soot-stained and weather-beaten . |
| 6 | Peter , having been dismissed because his work as a traffic clerk has been largely supplanted by use of a computer program for traffic Mows , vehicle scheduling and so on is eligible for a redundancy payment . |
| 7 | Apart from the GCC states , where public opinion has been generally conditioned by fear of Iraq , Arab reactions to the war and to Western proposals for security have been virtually unanimously hostile . |
| 8 | For every pair of tickets purchased , you will receive a free cassette/CD , entitled Flowers in Music , which has been specially compiled by Music for Pleasure , a division of EMI Records ( UK ) . |
| 9 | Before leaving this interesting adjective behind , we may note that it introduces a minor discrepancy from a rather general tendency of qualification which has been gradually emerging by implication in the text so far . |
| 10 | Among them was George Donaldson , one of Scotland 's leading deaf men , who had been totally deafened by injury during the First World War . |
| 11 | ‘ Hum — Perdita 's problem , ’ sighed Daisy whose tongue had been totally loosened by drink on no lunch . |
| 12 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the lower unit appears to have been extensively replaced by anhydrite to the point that on the original completion log , at least half of it was incorrectly attributed to the Z1 Anhydrite ( up to the arrow in Fig. 19 ) . |
| 14 | One of the largest rehabilitation schemes will be in the 600,000-hectare Danube delta in Ukraine and Romania , which is amongst Europe 's most important bird breeding areas , but has been severely damaged by reclamation of land for cultivation . |
| 15 | ‘ Since neither the Canadian or the British governments are in a position to produce the element ‘ 49 ’ ( code name for plutonium ) or ‘ 25 ’ ( code name for uranium-235 ) our interchange has been correspondingly restricted by order from the top . ’ |
| 16 | Many of the new bishops and other senior ecclesiastics had been strongly influenced by Calvinism during their exile abroad in Mary 's reign . |
| 17 | Though participants have said that they find these quizzes enjoyable , they have not been well supported by comparison with the more usual lectures and no further quiz is planned for the moment , though I shall try to keep a few questions in hand in case a speaker is delayed or fails to arrive for some reason . |
| 18 | The integrity of this method of labelling the meal has been well established by incubation of labelled scrambled egg with simulated gastric juice at 37°C and monitoring the rate of release of the label into the liquid phase . |
| 19 | It would be surprising if less prosperous sections of the community had not been equally attacked by disease at this time , and casualties of that extent would certainly have set back any recovery of the population . |
| 20 | Manpower calculates that the average period for which a person works for it ( presumably the average of all spells of employment ) is four months , although it also points out that " many " temporary " workers have been continuously employed by Manpower for several years and three and five year service awards for temporaries are a frequent occurrence " ( Manpower , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Dutch football has been increasingly dogged by hooliganism over the past few years . |
| 22 | Dutch football has been increasingly dogged by hooliganism over the past few years . |
| 23 | And this for the very good reason that the only relevant decision on the fiduciary duty — Prescott v. Birmingham — had been immediately negatived by Parliament in its application to the power of local transport authorities to fix the level of fares . |
| 24 | Earlier , on Aug. 31 , 1989 , the non-executive President , Wee Kim Wee , had been unanimously re-elected by Parliament for a four-year term . |
| 25 | After reference to the unfortunate existence of the BSP , he stated that it had been completely destroyed by amalgamation into the Communist Party ‘ pledged to follow the Bolshevist dictatorship of Lenin' . |
| 26 | Ignoring the fact that it does n't seem to have much harm to British Telecommunications Plc or to the UK , France 's Minister for Posts & Telecommunications , Emile Zuccarelli , says that privatising France Telecom would hurt the company , its users and the entire nation : he particularly worries about service in sparsely-populated areas , a problem that appears to have been satisfactorily solved by regulation in the UK market ; privatisation of France Telecom is anyway not on the agenda of Valery Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 27 | Though the tenor part was originally missing , it has been faithfully restored by analogy with the motet to make a glorious addition to the recorded repertory of Tallis 's music . |