Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his death in March 1984 , the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery under the leadership of Brig. -Gen. ( now Maj.-Gen. ) |
| 2 | After his death in March 1984 the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery ( CMRN ) . |
| 3 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 4 | He had apparently been adopted by a wealthy industrialist . |
| 5 | Legal theory has long been bedevilled by a sterile debate between positivists and natural lawyers . |
| 6 | The officers had already been convicted by a military tribunal in January [ see p. 37959 ] but the civilian court , which was required to confirm these sentences , showed itself to be more lenient . |
| 7 | On the subject of local histories — especially town histories — it is very possible that the ground will have already been explored by a previous researcher and the results of the study published . |
| 8 | By 1982 , then , when The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail appeared in print , the waters had already been disturbed by a fresh wave of material pertaining to the historical Jesus . |
| 9 | In the case of a company limited by shares , normally the only liability imposed on a shareholder as such will be to pay up the nominal value of the shares and any premium in so far as payment has not already been made by a previous holder . |
| 10 | The game had already been enlivened by a sumptuous Derrick Lee break-off scrum ball ( and a neat assist by Andrew Garry ) , therefore it was little co-incidence that the stand-off , who had enjoyed an adventurous afternoon , was instrumental in the first try . |
| 11 | To enable larger amounts of data to be handled , some hyper-text systems have already been augmented by a conventional relational data-base system as for example with the commercial system OWL [ 9 ] . |
| 12 | Sergeant Elie Tardivel tells how in June seven men from a neighbouring platoon had just been killed by a single French 155 shell . |
| 13 | Well , that very technological breakthrough has just been made by a British company . |
| 14 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 15 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |
| 16 | It had just been wiped by a sullen black woman in a nylon overall , from whom the sergeant tried in vain to extract a smile , and the police officers sat back to allow it to dry before resting their elbows on the surface . |
| 17 | President Reagan 's Strategic Defense Initiative , announced in 1983 , has always been accompanied by a strong element of criticism of existing US nuclear policy , but it may turn out to be a good deal less than the promised means of freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weaponry . |
| 18 | His memory of her , which for years , a traitor to grief and to their love , he had resolutely tried to suppress because the pain had seemed unbearable , had gradually been replaced by a boyish , romantic dream of gentleness and beauty now fixed for ever beyond the depredation of time . |
| 19 | In most liberal democracies it has gradually been supplemented by a new plebiscitary politics , based on the cult of charismatic leaders built up through the mass media . |
| 20 | He did n't believe it up to the moment that he found himself outside a half-house that had once been graced by a classical loggia . |
| 21 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 22 | His throat had nearly been cut by a Jewish Communist in Lambeth , as he struggled nobly and outnumbered against the forces of international Bolshevism . |
| 23 | One day , soon after the girl 's departure , Tom had complained of pains in his chest after digging the new potato patch , a job which had formerly been undertaken by a youthful employee who had also disappeared into the army . |
| 24 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 25 | The development has also been supported by a substantial staff development programme and co-operative work between the five colleges in the region . |
| 26 | This observation has also been supported by a recent report on healthy volunteers , showing that sudden awakening is accompanied by a strong increased in segmental motility from the colon . |
| 27 | Arminianism had also been adopted by a small group of clerics within the Jacobean church who , as well as questioning the doctrinal basis of Calvinism , had sought to reintroduce into church worship certain decorational features and ceremonies most commonly associated with Catholicism . |
| 28 | So far as Bragg could see , the man had clearly been killed by a crushing blow to the head . |
| 29 | Whatever internal dissent there might have been had clearly been silenced by a unifying sense of outrage over the city 's 37 dead . |
| 30 | It has now been replaced by a new colonnade . |