Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that Hanson may be preparing to bid for ICI has been met by a united front on the ICI board . |
| 2 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 3 | ‘ Michael Stein has been attacked by a guest . ’ |
| 4 | Such underdrawing has now provided a significantly more accurate way of dating the famous palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and El Castillo , Spain , and Niaux in the French Pyrenees has been developed by a team of French and Spanish scientists . |
| 5 | One of the French-based Skyraiders has been purchased by a well-known warbird operation based at Duxford . |
| 6 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 7 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 8 | French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling . |
| 9 | Consequently throughout its existence the NHS has been complemented by a residual system of private provision . |
| 10 | The backstreet site in the middle of Peterborough has been obliterated by a glass and concrete shopping centre . |
| 11 | But I heard ‘ Pamella Bordes has been discovered by a Sun reporter on the island of Bali ’ and I said , My God , now they know where I am , they 'll come down and get me . |
| 12 | SHREWSBURY manager John Bond has been forced by a Burnley hate mob to stay away from his side 's FA Cup tie at Turf Moor on Saturday . |
| 13 | Since early 1919 , agitation against Britain 's support for the various anti-Soviet armies in Russia had been co-ordinated by a Hands Off Russia Committee run by the far left , but supported by UDC intellectuals , Quakers and many Liberals . |
| 14 | Despite all their meticulous pre-tour preparation , England have been routed by a wicked combination of untimely injuries and sickness plus the loss of two vital tosses . |
| 15 | Up to this point the structuralism of Lévi-Strauss and Barthes has been characterized by a formal interest in the structure of signification which has its clear roots in structural linguistics . |
| 16 | Bowe has been tempted by a $20million offer to fight George Foreman in Peking in March , a deal that manager Rock Newman said is too good to reject . |
| 17 | THE opening of Britain 's £25m pavilion at the Expo 92 exhibition in Seville on Monday has been overshadowed by a dispute between Trafalgar House and the firms it hired to complete the project . |
| 18 | When he looked back he saw that Burun had been joined by a crowd of aides and counsellors . |
| 19 | The position of Agnos had been undermined by a large budget deficit ( much of it inherited ) , the effects of the country 's economic recession and the legacy of the 1989 earthquake [ see pp. 36970-71 ] . |
| 20 | When Amelia Putt entered the room into which Constable Aplin and Detective Eddy had been shown by a manor servant , she looked pale and upset and her expression was strained . |
| 21 | Mr Patten had been shaken by a ( to him ) unexpected decision by the courts not to declare the teachers ' action illegal , and by an NOP opinion poll showing that parents back the boycott . |
| 22 | The smile of recognition and welcome for Duncan had been followed by a fit of coughing . |
| 23 | For this reason the history of discussion between theists and atheists about the existence of God has been characterised by a great deal of mutual misunderstanding . |
| 24 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 25 | He shows the Captain where Garvey had been stung by a Varga thorn , a venomous biological creation found on only one planet in the skies … |
| 26 | But such matters are relative : the major currencies outside the EMS have been characterized by a high degree of exchange rate volatility , and the proper comparison is to consider the effect on intra-community exchange rates without the operation of the EMS . |
| 27 | And Derek 's been replaced by a machine ! |
| 28 | A MAYOR who criticised a planned output of BBC broadcasts from Stockton has been accused by a colleague of interfering . |
| 29 | This year , however , Britain has been faced by a tyrant much closer to home . |
| 30 | The point has been well put by Vivien Hart in comparing American and British approaches : " In America , " she wrote , " the emphasis has been on what democracy is and should be , while Britain has been characterised by a more pragmatic and less urgent emphasis on what democracy is and can be . " |