Example sentences of "they had be [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differences emerged between the manufacturing and service sectors , however , with 44 per cent of the former saying that they had been affected by green concerns , as against just 29 per cent of the latter . |
| 2 | Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development . |
| 3 | Some trade unionists later felt that they had been misled by private assurances from the Prime Minister that there would be an early election . |
| 4 | In recent years the British Government has attempted to extradite terrorist suspects from Belgium and The Netherlands after they had been discovered by British intelligence . |
| 5 | The dramatic effectiveness of the timing of the bombs lead to wide suspicion that they had been planted by British agents . |
| 6 | However , progress was made , in co-operation with the EC monitors ' team , on evacuating Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) garrisons from Croatia where they had been blockaded by Croatian forces , as Croatia agreed to lift the remaining blockades on garrisons in Zagreb . |
| 7 | On ITV , for example , the channel which caused most concern , 17 per cent said they had been offended by bad language , and 11 per cent each by scenes of sex or violence . |
| 8 | Orton and Vera said they had been abducted by Malawian agents during a visit to a Zambian town close to the Malawian border . |
| 9 | Both during training and after qualifying some people said that they had been encouraged by senior colleagues to work with disabled people or in areas of medicine of low prestige . |
| 10 | Stewart Raynsford and Peter Kemp were found slumped in their unlocked cell just hours after arriving at the jail and it was assumed they had been attacked by fellow inmates . |
| 11 | Under Russian rule many native communities were deprived of such rights by sheer seizure of land ( zakhvat ) or by forfeiting territory as a result of pernicious debtor-contracts into which they had been duped by unscrupulous settlers . |
| 12 | With regard to their own work , three of the four women said they had been criticised by White feminists for ‘ too much sex ’ or for ‘ collusion in the exploitation of women for the male gaze ’ , a criticism which they all felt was inappropriate and indicative not just of Western ignorance vis-à-vis questions of representation and cultural difference , but also of institutional and political constraints . |
| 13 | Both of them had been influenced by Dutch stock : the Hervé of central Liège originated from Dutch Friesians crossed to local red-pied cattle in the mid-nineteenth century , while the Polders of western Antwerp and northern Flanders was in effect the Dutch Black Pied in Belgium . |