Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ritchie has been told by legal counsel that this new evidence in their opinion provides substantial grounds for Mr Lang to order a retrial or a full reinvestigation of the case , but assessment of the appeal documents is at an early stage . |
| 2 | Monday May 11th saw the new timetable introduced and with the withdrawal of InterCity from Shrewsbury , a basic hourly service from Birmingham to Shrewsbury has been provided by Regional Railways to Shrewsbury with alternate services onwards , one going to Aberystwyth and the other to Chester . |
| 3 | If he thought last summer 's trip down under was demanding , Wright has been warned by fellow internationalist and Boroughmuir colleague Sean Lineen to expect the ‘ toughest eight weeks of your life ’ in New Zealand . |
| 4 | The trial of Winnie Mandela had been marked by intense media and public interest , and was widely seen as having brought about the collapse of her personal popularity among ANC followers . |
| 5 | The apothecary had lied and Lady Eleanor had been murdered by other means . |
| 6 | This project is looking at the way in which plant-breeding at public sector institutes in Scotland , Wales and England has been influenced by various interest groups : government ( via the Agricultural Research Council ) , the private sector ( including farmers ' organisations and seed companies ) , and the academic community . |
| 7 | The last of these was ironic , not to say cynical , for much of the manpower used in the building of the Valle de los Caídos had been provided by political prisoners , who were allowed to redeem part of their sentences in what was , effectively , a labour camp . |
| 8 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 9 | Savings by the NHS have been made by switching funding for respite care and long stay nursing care to the social security budget . |
| 10 | PILOT projects for a safety system aimed at preventing disasters like that at Clapham last December have been approved by British Rail . |
| 11 | The next morning the Prior brought a letter for Corbett ; a simple note which said that Benstede had been attacked by unknown assailants the previous morning , that he was safe but advised Corbett to be most cautious . |
| 12 | We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations . |
| 13 | ‘ What happens , ’ he asked the darkness , ‘ if Sir Ralph has been killed by secret peasant leaders ? |
| 14 | A guide to the production and use of social message video in sub-Saharan Africa has been published by National Video Resources ( NVR ) , based in New York , USA . |
| 15 | For instance , Bell-Ingram has been appointed by Clackmannan District Council to undertake a review of its property portfolio , which is believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland . |
| 16 | Progress in production methods at Barlaston has been matched by far-sighted management and a vigorous design policy . |
| 17 | This orientation can be characterised by certain basic attitudes , chief among which are ( 1 ) a continued and strict adherence to the tenets of Judaic law ; ( 2 ) a recognition of Jesus as Messiah in the original Judaic sense of the word ; ( 3 ) a repudiation of the Virgin Birth and an insistence on Jesus having been born by natural processes , without any divine intervention ; and ( 4 ) a militant hostility towards Paul and the edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 18 | On this occasion Beaton thought that the movie would join the list of those that had ‘ paralyzed the box office ’ because Vidor had been forced by United Artists to film Elmer Rice 's stage play on a very confined studio set , the implication being that this movie of gossip , family disagreements , sidewalk philosophy , and sociological theorizing needed a more realistic and expansive setting . |
| 19 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 20 | The flight to Paris had been punctuated by periodic bouts of turbulence and consequently neither of them had managed to get much sleep . |
| 21 | Support for the DLP had declined since its 1986 victory under the late Errol Barrow , and the forthcoming vote was seen as a key test of confidence in the leadership of Sandiford , Barrow 's successor , whose stewardship of the DLP had been marked by factional fighting . |
| 22 | Even where TNCs have been attracted by regional policy to locate new investments of the 1980s in assisted areas , the yield of additional jobs has been meagre . |
| 23 | Dr Rodwell has been commissioned by English Heritage to produce a similar book on Wells Cathedral . |
| 24 | Merseyside has been enveloped by sporting influence more than almost anywhere else in Britain , due to its two major football clubs . |
| 25 | In this Marx has been proved by subsequent anthropology to be quite right , and many anthropologists would argue that the attribution of the profit motive to people who do not have it has been the greatest hindrance to an understanding of pre-capitalist societies . |
| 26 | PERMISSION for the addition of a bedroom and bathroom at Long Reach , 12 Lymington Bottom Road , Four Marks has been granted by local planners . |
| 27 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 28 | ( Bush had been forced by Congressional pressure to abandon his controversial proposals to reduce capital gains tax in 1990 — see p. 37036 . ) |
| 29 | However , in January 1948 Don Juan had been advised by American representatives to mend his fences with Franco , and in August he accepted an invitation to meet Franco on board the latter 's yacht , the Azor . |
| 30 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |