Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | On personal recommendation , Alison has recently been approached by Sir David Brooke of Brooke Bond fame and Sir Howard Guinness . |
| 2 | And his plans for deregulating the economy continue whilst US aid to Pakistan has already been cut by 2/3 last October . |
| 3 | A headhunter for ten years , Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client , which speaks volumes . |
| 4 | Philpott had then been contacted by Graham personally on the advice of the Delta Commander . |
| 5 | Mr Seselj has often been used by President Milosevic to advance his own ends . |
| 6 | Bosnia and Herzegovina had both been administered by Austria-Hungary since 1878 but had been formally annexed only in 1908 . |
| 7 | It is true that much of England had already been enclosed by 1760 , but in some areas , notably in the south and east Midlands in counties like Northamptonshire , Cambridge and Oxfordshire , more than half of enclosures took place after 1760 under acts of parliament . |
| 8 | Léonie had never been bothered by the prohibition ; there were so many other intriguing sites for play . |
| 9 | The firms which have joined ISA have usually been formed by consultants with experience in the major international search firms , who wish to remain independent but adhere to the same ethical standards of the majors . |
| 10 | In recent times , farm incomes in disadvantaged rural areas such as upland N E Scotland have only been maintained by a reduction in farm numbers , an increase in farm size and a fall in farm employment . |
| 11 | Marek Dabrowski , a former deputy finance minister in Poland and an adviser to the Russian government , takes the argument to its logical conclusion : comparison with Poland 's experience in switching from communism to capitalism shows that the ailments afflicting Russia have not been caused by the imposition of shock therapy . |
| 12 | Two of its leaders were arrested in 1989 and Qibla has now been broken by the security police . |
| 13 | Interactive shared development of the product with Segue Software Inc , Santa Monica , and launched the product back in 1990 ( UX No 281,285 ) for Intel-based machines , with Peter Norton Computing taking royalties ( Norton has since been acquired by Symantec Corp , Cupertino , California ) . |
| 14 | But Syria 's original token force of 3,200 men in Saudi Arabia and 600 in the United Arab Emirates has now been augmented by the arrival of a nearly-complete armoured division with Soviet-made tanks . |
| 15 | Hart has formally been nominated by the Auckland union , but he has informed Auckland and several other unions who support him that he wants more time to decide whether he really wants the toil and trouble of being the All Black coach . |
| 16 | SGI 's Iris GL has already been endorsed by large sections of the industry , including DEC , IBM , Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp , as a standard for their high-end graphics developments . |
| 17 | Da Costa had reportedly been captured by Indonesian forces in January . |
| 18 | In all her years in St Mary 's Eve Malone had never been seen by the other girls to perform one menial task . |
| 19 | It came from Thomas and Josiah Wedgwood — rich sons of the famous potter — to whom Coleridge had recently been introduced by Tom Poole . |
| 20 | Tom had recently been referred by his mainstream school to the psychological Service for assessment under the 1981 Act because teachers felt they should receive additional support for Tom 's periods in mainstream school . |
| 21 | If only Clive Rice had not been dropped by South Africa , maybe I could have persuaded the England selectors to give me a chance … |
| 22 | The decision in Gillian has now been overruled by statute : see section 2(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 ; Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union v. Times Newspapers Ltd. [ 1980 ] Q.B. 585 ; but that in no way detracts from the persuasive force of what was said by Uthwatt J. in Gillian . |
| 23 | Credit rationing in the UK has not been favoured by The Conservative government of the 1980s and early 1990s . |
| 24 | There are now few areas in the world where the impact of the TNCs has not been researched by someone and good examples of this type of study are Kowaleski ( 1982 ) on the Caribbean , Onimode et al. |
| 25 | Even so , the decision to cover Hong Kong has now been overtaken by developments . |
| 26 | Taking on the presidency at a low point in Italian political life ( his predecessor , Giovanni Leone , had resigned over the Lockheed scandal , and Prime Minister Aldo Moro had recently been assassinated by the Red Brigades — see pp. 29053-55 ) , Pertini was credited with restoring the country 's confidence and self-respect . |
| 27 | Erm the Japanese presence in the south was , was more just along the coast , they , they , they 'd taken the trading ports erm and they had some of the interior but on , on the whole south China had not been dominated by the Japanese , th th th their base was very much the north China plain and , and spreading across towards the communist areas . |
| 28 | The book had been published in March 1990 , and the case against Hamid had previously been dismissed by a civil court in May 1991 . |
| 29 | The point he seems to have missed is that even if the BBC had not been outbid by Sky for coverage , it was , I think , unlikely that we would have seen ( a ) ball-by-ball-by-ball coverage ( not highlights ) during social hours on the following day . |
| 30 | Mrs Smith said her daughter Catherine had twice been seen by a doctor at her home since the accident . |