Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything upon which her eyes focused was obscured by a heavy veil . |
| 2 | An indictment , issued by a Californian grand jury on Feb. 23 and kept secret until after the arrests , stated that payment for the krytrons had been authorized by the Iraqi embassy in London . |
| 3 | Human beings he found , yet again , were not nearly so interesting as animals and besides , his bare legs had been stung by the nettles that grew thickly round the boathouse . |
| 4 | But Labour 's Shadow Foreign Secretary Jack Cunningham slammed the claim as ‘ hogwash , ’ saying the Lib Dems had been conned by the government . |
| 5 | In order to discover how recently-acquired items being consulted by readers had been obtained by the Library , all post-1976 imprints issued ( that is , all issues published in the five years preceding the Call-slip analysis exercise ) were identified , and their method of acquisition determined by examining the Library 's stamp on the verso of their titlepages . |
| 6 | But as well as her being uncomfortable with lying , her eyes had been trapped by the intensity of his gaze and telling him anything less than the truth , the whole truth , had seemed impossible . |
| 7 | So severe was the weather that many of the ties had been postponed by the Friday . |
| 8 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha said that the funds had been approved by the Cabinet because " we were against SWAPO " . |
| 9 | Mr Abdul Rehman , the local polling agent for Janata Dal , told how his supporters had been attacked by a marauding band of Congress workers , some of them with guns . |
| 10 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
| 11 | Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime . |
| 12 | The scale of the losses had been anticipated by the City , and the shares were unchanged at 56p . |
| 13 | The Green Paper showed that ten declarations had been made by the Certification Officer upholding complaints , but in no case had the complainant then sought an enforcement order from the |
| 14 | Forest 's last words had been accompanied by a guffaw , and Edward 's half-formed comment was drowned by the slamming of the door as the grinning man left . |
| 15 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 16 | Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov on Feb. 12 made the astonishing announcement that January 's sudden withdrawal of Rbs50 and Rbs100 banknotes had been prompted by the discovery of a Western plot to flood the Soviet economy with billions of roubles to create artificial hyper-inflation . |
| 17 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |
| 18 | The elliptical clause means the electricians had been blamed by the contractors . |
| 19 | An offer last August of 3% for 12 months had been followed by a lengthy period when voluntary severance had been negotiated with the Bank . |
| 20 | We learned later that many listeners had been moved by the simple eloquence of Gladstone Murray 's broadcast . |
| 21 | The first neutrons detected were generated by a solar flare on 21 June , 1980 , although the satellite data was not analysed until later . |
| 22 | A Dec. 21 announcement by the authorities that a new border police force was to be created and military patrols strengthened was followed by the deportation of thousands of Albanian nationals over the next week . |
| 23 | The fifth and sixth defendants had been employed by a group of companies of which the plaintiffs were a part in senior positions for short periods before being dismissed . |
| 24 | The background to this injunction , as is apparent from its terms , was that the defendants had been ordered by a subpoena duces tecum issued in New York on 24 July 1990 to produce the documents referred to in the injunction . |
| 25 | Three possible sites had been earmarked by the company one next to the 275,000-volt substation at Lackenby but all had been rejected by the council on health grounds . |
| 26 | I recall a fine falconry work where some plates had been extracted by the owner for this purpose , a Peter Pan Portfolio despoiled by a feminine hand , and a number of other examples . |
| 27 | On this point THE HOME SECRETARY said that there was no reliable evidence that the abolition of the death penalty in foreign countries had been followed by a significant increase in the number of murders . |
| 28 | Only weeks before the death of Cato , tensions had been inflamed by the publicity given to a speech by Leonard Jeffries Jr of the City University of New York , one of the country 's leading black academics . |
| 29 | On April 29 the JNA occupied the village of Kijevo , near Knin , where ethnic tensions had been heightened by the Croatian government 's new policy of establishing new Croat-manned police stations to reassert Croatia 's authority in the districts controlled by the Serb separatist militants . |
| 30 | When I was told this , I recalled hearing it said , back in the 1930s , that these visits had been observed by a young writer or two who , out of rather callous curiosity , would follow Eliot at a discreet distance , and observe him to turn round , as he approached the door , in order to see whether anybody had been spying on him . |