Example sentences of "they have been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 2 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 3 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 4 | It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them . |
| 5 | If someone knows they 've been contaminated by a needle or a knife , for instance , then I think the testing certainly is available . ’ |
| 6 | But this week they 've been confronted by a whole host of vegetarian dishes . |
| 7 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 8 | The tyres on the locomotive 's driving wheels were found to be of different sizes after they had been reprofiled by a well-known company in South Wales . |
| 9 | However , the authors qualify their findings by pointing out that the group of exposed women was , in fact , only presumed to have been exposed since they had been selected by a computer matching of topical tretinoin prescriptions to pregnant women 3–4 months after their estimated dates of conception . |
| 10 | He had cut off the girl 's head and put it next to her father 's on the garden path , where they had been found by a neighbour . |
| 11 | Their complaint that they had been betrayed by a Committee ‘ set up as a result of the pressure by the NFOAPA upon individual MPs ’ was , however , some way wide of the mark . |
| 12 | They had been bought by a well intended but misguided woman who found that she could no longer afford to keep them . |
| 13 | Christie slashed her own thighs with the knife and told police they had been attacked by a mystery man . |
| 14 | Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields . |
| 15 | The accident happened after a stolen red rover car accelerated away into King edwards avenue , when it 's occupants realised they had been spotted by a police patrol . |
| 16 | They have been inspired by a reverence for the so-called ‘ feminine ’ , an essentially patriarchal construct which participates in the whole Madonna/whore syndrome . |
| 17 | They have been joined by a host of small ‘ micro brewers ’ producing a limited barrelage but adding variety and choice in the genuine free trade . |
| 18 | This means they have been inspected by a team of professional experts and the standard of their work has been approved . |
| 19 | And they have been characterized by a Western bias that permeates education in general . |
| 20 | They have been replaced by a Labour leadership keen to blame many of their problems at the Government 's door . |
| 21 | They also hamper the search for factual reality in sciences , where they have been tackled by a powerful culture of verification . |
| 22 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 23 | A bad Goshiki is a hotchpotch fish , whose colours look as though they have been mixed by a five-year-old and applied with a wet rag . |
| 24 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 25 | They have been attracted by a combination of the environment at the Research Park and proximity to the University facilities . |
| 26 | Councillors said they have been approached by a number of people about the poor repair of the road . |
| 27 | The listing particulars may not be published until they have been approved by a competent authority in the member state ; the competent authority in the UK is the London Stock Exchange . |
| 28 | ‘ Our comments have gone unheeded by central government but surely they must pay attention now that they have been reiterated by a person of his standing . ’ |
| 29 | The duo 's first album has Irish sales of 27,000 so far , and is also to be released Japan , of all places , where Kieran 's songs are so popular that two of them have been recorded by a local singer — the lyrics translated into Japanese . |
| 30 | If Aberdeen 's prospects of winning the only trophy left available to them have been weakened by a combination of indifferent form and disruption to Willie Miller 's squad , the picture was little brighter for the party who travelled south last night . |