Example sentences of "have be [verb] by a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 24-year-old man has been cleared by a Liverpool Crown Court jury of possessing about £1.5m worth of ecstasy tablets . |
| 2 | Although some footage has been shot in Vietnam , the film has been hampered by a US embargo and complex negotiations with the Vietnamese government . |
| 3 | For instance , the original vibrato unit has been replaced by a Washburn Wonderbar , and the nut has been swapped for what looks like graphite , presumably to aid tuning stability . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A CHARITY which takes deprived children on camping trips has been helped by a Middlesbrough hotel . |
| 6 | Returning to the jungle he finds he has to kill Lowery who has been stung by a Varga . |
| 7 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 8 | He understood , he said , that the groom had been attacked earlier , in Toronto , when he foiled the kidnapping of a horse , but he had insisted on making the journey nevertheless , having been bandaged by a Miss Richmond . |
| 9 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 10 | Le Pen , meanwhile , had been cleared by a Versailles court on July 2 of " publicly insulting " the Minister for Public Services , Michel Durafour in September 1988 , by using the word-play " Durafour-crematoire " ( " four crematoire " having been the normal description for the furnaces used for burning bodies in Nazi Germany ) [ see pp. 36230 ; 37683 ] . |
| 11 | In February 1988 he had been indicted by a Miami grand jury for having conspired between 1981 and 1986 with the Medellín drugs cartel of Colombia to traffick drugs into the USA . |
| 12 | An important part in the arrangements for the security to be given had been played by a Mr. Bruce , a solicitor acting for the bank who had also , at one time , acted for the husband . |
| 13 | His eyes were like black pools of water , his hair a hoary white , prickly and short , with a parting down the middle which looked as though it had been cut by a Stanley knife . |
| 14 | Even Poole , the District 's own Organising Secretary in Norfolk and Norwich , had been asked by a Cambridge Board officer not to go ‘ … into towns or villages where there was or had been Extension work ’ . |
| 15 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |
| 16 | A warrant for Honecker 's arrest to face manslaughter charges [ see pp. 37828-29 ] had been confirmed by a Berlin court on Nov. 30 , 1990 , and the last of three appeals against the order had been lost the week before . |
| 17 | Egyptian references maintain that the whole body was recovered , but Plutarch says that the penis had been eaten by a Nile fish and through her magic Isis had to create a substitute . |
| 18 | This document revealed that ever since her father 's death , Miss Honey had in fact been the rightful owner of a property on the edge of the village known as The Red House , which until recently had been occupied by a Miss Agatha Trunchbull . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | The Dewar Challenge Trophy — awarded for the most meritorious performance of the year in any trial under the Long-Distance Trials Regulations — was presented to Cadillac that year , the first time the trophy had been won by a US car maker . |
| 21 | The explosion had been filmed by a BBC TV cameraman , Bernard Hesketh , but was over too quickly to have any impact . |
| 22 | This charge also applies to items which would normally have been returned but which have been guaranteed by a Barclays Connect card or cheque guarantee card . |