Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 2 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 3 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 4 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic . |
| 7 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 8 | They 've been replaced by the L and the M series . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yet they are n't fakes , for it would appear that they 've been printed by the county 's National Mint . |
| 11 | If someone knows they 've been contaminated by a needle or a knife , for instance , then I think the testing certainly is available . ’ |
| 12 | But hospital staff say they 've been vindicated by the inquest verdict . |
| 13 | There was a bit in the paper today about er Ratners , in the Samuels outlet selling carriage clocks for three hundred pounds and claiming that they are solid mahogany cases , but as they 're chipboard with a mahogany veneer , and er they 've been had by the Trades Descriptions Act , three , who would pay three hundred pounds for a mahogany one anyway ? |
| 14 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 15 | Already because they 've been approved by the board . |
| 16 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 17 | Thames Valley Police say they ca n't comment on the figures until they 've been discussed by the relevant committee next week . |
| 18 | But this week they 've been confronted by a whole host of vegetarian dishes . |
| 19 | They 've been encouraged by the response to a new artist 's impression of a man seen in the village . |
| 20 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 21 | The Bishop of Ely claimed Benwick as part of his chase : they had been met by the bishop 's bailiff , leading three priests in full vestments , with Bible , cross and candle , ‘ so that they could make no inquest there that day ’ . |
| 22 | in 1195 , when King Richard Coeur de Lion was at Chinon , no less than fifteen so-called Assassins were apprehended , and confessed that they had been sent by the King of France to kill him . |
| 23 | In the immediate mode on BBC Micro , all control codes ( with the exception of |
| 24 | I thought that those were wise words when I read them and was delighted to find that they had been written by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border ( Mr. Maclean ) in The Lake District Herald only this week . |
| 25 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 26 | That was true , and if it suggested they had been alerted by the security pass and not by a friend in the underpaid BBC World Service , then so much the better . |
| 27 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 28 | Plans for the so-called " three gorges dam " on the Yangtze river were reportedly resurrected in August 1990 over a year after they had been shelved by the Chinese government [ see also p. 37003 ] . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |