Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] by [num] " in BNC.

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1 Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted .
2 Erm , are now in the process of following up to see if who has made er the switch to the new regime , and I have been approached by one project leader who has two programmers who refused to change , and has asked for help .
3 Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms .
4 But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another .
5 In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ .
6 Lady Dawn Kennedy , 31 , was remanded in custody accused of falsely claiming she had been raped by three men .
7 We 'd been visited by 700 people .
8 The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way .
9 And it has been followed by two other families with the synchronous/asynchronous Mach three and four families .
10 It has been increased by 27 posts .
11 It has been cited by one analyst as ‘ the green stock par excellence ’ .
12 The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas .
13 My sense of honour and enjoyment in taking part in it has been enhanced by one sentimental memory .
14 It has been suggested by one author that , for instance , written records of staff training should be kept .
15 Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average .
16 The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs .
17 It has been signed by 5,851 people .
18 In this study it has been shown by two independent methods that histamine increases the in vitro proliferation of the two gastric tumour cells ; MKN45 and MKN45G but not the two colorectal lines ; C170 and LoVo .
19 As of Oct. 31 , 1989 , it had been ratified by 15 states ( see pp. 35984 ; 36565 for Turkey 's ratification in February 1988 ) .
20 And the County Ground Hotel was warned that it had been targetted by 150 United supporters .
21 And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’
22 Although he had suffered only a broken arm , it had been feared by two doctors at the scene that he had suffered serious head injuries .
23 At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting .
24 A post mortem showed he had been hit by five bullets and had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets .
25 He died , ‘ a wasted skeleton ’ , 4 August 1818 in Galway , where he had been befriended by two black soldiers of the 77th Regiment .
26 He had been passed by two or three cars , but consoled himself that their drivers would have no idea who he was .
27 My stomach feels like it 's been kicked by hundreds of yobs wearing hob-nailed boots . ’
28 I mean they , and also a lot of people are shy to once as erm , someone 's put up someone else and it 's been seconded by two people on the committee they feel there 's no point in
29 He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated .
30 might have also mentioned that the number of scholarships and the funds available for them have been increased by 50 per cent and 500 per cent respectively .
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