Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 2 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 3 | Dot was glad she 'd been warned by the dancing man because there was no warning from Gloria . |
| 4 | Another possibility , also in view of your youth , was that you 'd been seduced by the idea of flouting convention by involving yourself with a married man . |
| 5 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 6 | Patrick himself made a statement to my sister which I 've got on tape , saying he 'd been discarded by the woman he married . |
| 7 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 8 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |
| 9 | He 'd been hired by the man 's parents but still faces up to 20 years in gaol . |
| 10 | She 'd been lured by the old-fascination of ships and water . |
| 11 | Much of the substantial loss which Coleridge suffered was borne by the uncomplaining and insufficiently thanked Cottle , whose verdict on the Watchman was brief and to the point . |
| 12 | I also hated being beaten by the wind and was frustrated by my lack of progress . |
| 13 | The data collected were analysed by the department of general practice at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas 's Hospitals . |
| 14 | The courses taught were validated by the University of Birmingham which approved these syllabuses , designed by those who were to teach them . |
| 15 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 16 | On the fifth of September nineteen thirty nine a control of timber ordered was made by the Ministry of Supply , followed by controls on all raw materials used by the furniture industry and allied trades . |
| 17 | ( I kept on remembering Penny Lester 's grisly dormitory stories about how her mother survived being raped by the Japanese , I kept on saying , do n't resist , do n't resist . |
| 18 | A Dec. 21 announcement by the authorities that a new border police force was to be created and military patrols strengthened was followed by the deportation of thousands of Albanian nationals over the next week . |
| 19 | The depth of the resentment Mrs Thatcher aroused was occasioned by the challenge she represented . |
| 20 | ‘ We were doing certain things we felt were recommended by the Institute and they did n't understand that . ’ |
| 21 | Blake closed his eyes but kept being kicked by the Doctor , attempting to escape from his bonds . |
| 22 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |
| 23 | In 33 of these the diagnosis offered was confirmed by the consultant , giving a diagnosic accuracy of 61% compared with the 27% quoted by Russell Jones . |
| 24 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 25 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
| 26 | The post-war economic policy which they preferred was articulated by the Federation of British Industry ( the predecessor of the CBI ) in 1944 . |
| 27 | It is abundantly clear that there was no enthusiasm amongst the English nobility for a renewal of war , and the triumphant campaign that now ensued was prepared by the king himself and a small group of his military supporters , notably Henry Percy of Alnwick and William de Clinton . |
| 28 | If no date had been fixed by the end of 1997 than the European System of Central Banks had to be established by July 1 , 1998 , and stage three would begin by Jan. 1 , 1999 , at the latest . |
| 29 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |
| 30 | I had gone to visit the RSPB 's osprey reserve at Loch Garten , and had been struck by the symbolism of that site , where the birds flew free and the humans were , in effect , in a cage . |