Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] by [art] new " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1970s , all of the familiar themes associated with the postwar new-critical programme had been appropriated by the new right and the humanistic sense that English departments might play a central and autonomous role in the transformation of the general " quality of life " in society had all but collapsed . |
| 2 | They had been wrongfooted by the new ruling on bouncers , which places a limit of one per over per batsman ( and over shoulder height ) . |
| 3 | He had been hit by a new wave of depression . |
| 4 | On this occasion it was to be hoped that humiliation and hurt pride had been assuaged by a new pair of shoes and a many-stranded jet necklace — like early travellers taking presents to the natives , Sophia felt . |
| 5 | The Tramway Engineer , Mr. Freddie Field , was responsible for the display , and his centre-piece was the creation of an illuminated Venetian Gondola from the remains of car 28 , which had been replaced by a new Standard car of the same number . |
| 6 | The old powers and the impenetrable secrecy that protected them had been breached by the new liberties . |
| 7 | But they were alarmed to discover that sanitarians had been displaced by a new force in sexual politics : the militant voice of articulate middle-class women who pointed to men as the root cause of immorality . |
| 8 | The Longhorn faded into relative obscurity quite quickly , once it had been overshadowed by the new Shorthorns , but the latter spread to many parts of the world , improving local cattle and forming the basis of countless new breeds . |