Example sentences of "they have be [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 2 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
| 3 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 4 | The Hunt Saboteurs have admitted they 've been infiltrated by neo-Nazi groups . |
| 5 | The witnesses told the court since going to the police they 've been intimidated by certain people on the estate . |
| 6 | The witnesses told the court since going to the police they 've been intimidated by certain people on the estate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some trade unionists later felt that they had been misled by private assurances from the Prime Minister that there would be an early election . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The dramatic effectiveness of the timing of the bombs lead to wide suspicion that they had been planted by British agents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Orton and Vera said they had been abducted by Malawian agents during a visit to a Zambian town close to the Malawian border . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After all , people have always wanted to do violence to those who stood in their way when they were attempting to commit robberies ; but they have been bound by certain conventions of which they were unaware . |
| 20 | Though it used to be thought that internationalism was the preserve of the large , private corporation , today they have been joined by small firms and many state enterprises . |
| 21 | Many of these pioneer voluntary bodies still exist , and they have been joined by large numbers of organizations that have arisen in recent years to tackle the needs of particular groups among the disabled , so that voluntary effort continues to play a major part in meeting the needs of the handicapped . |
| 22 | In the meantime , however , many old breeds have already become extinct , largely because they have been absorbed by other breeds . |
| 23 | Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems , long after they have been replaced by good ones . |
| 24 | Allowances such as the Married Man 's , Single Person 's and Wife 's Earned Income all reflected judgements about different family responsibilities and income requirements , The estimated cost in 1989/90 of these allowances was £26.7 million , but since April 1990 they have been replaced by Independent Taxation ( see below ) . |
| 25 | loss or damage to china , glass , earthenware and other items of a brittle nature unless they have been packaged by professional packers . |
| 26 | They have been fed non-sexist , multi-cultural books and toys along with their strained apricots ; they have been treated by female GPs , they have sat and watched Kaffe Fassett knitting and sewing on TV , but their ideas of male and female roles are as sexist as if we had never made the effort . |
| 27 | The applications can not be processed by the Housing Executive unless they have been assessed by occupational therapists from the Department of Health and unless recommendations are made by the occupational therapy department . |
| 28 | These are a complexity of outcropping veins on which 17th Century miners worked but in places they have been modified by subsequent operators . |
| 29 | These rules still exist ( see pp. 146–8 ) , but they have been supplemented by statutory provisions which enable a trader to acquire by registration at the Patent Office the exclusive right to use a distinctive trade mark in connection with his goods . |
| 30 | A number of dimensions of child rearing emerged from this material , and of these two are worth special mention because they have been found by other investigators too . |