Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To ease the credit policy , the Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates to their lowest level since November 1964 after chairman Alan Greenspan admitted that January 's and February 's surge in growth may have been caused only by a mild winter after all . |
| 32 | One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government . |
| 33 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 34 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 35 | Meanwhile a row of ten cottages has been put up by a local builder at a cost of twenty five thousand pounds.And although they 're made of plywood , there 's already been one prospective purchaser : |
| 36 | It was like a machine where every single bit was perfectly made , but had been put together by a one-handed nome in the dark . |
| 37 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 38 | An official inquiry by the Pakistan military and US army experts determined that sabotage had caused the crash and that Zia 's pilots had been knocked out by a poisonous gas . |
| 39 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 40 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 41 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 42 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 43 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 44 | Nelson 's column unexpectedly has now been taken over by a large , bearded Welshman , called Davydd . |
| 45 | The work of fostering and supporting such groups has now been taken over by a national organization called Cope , which works closely with local social services departments and adult education departments to spread the approach across the country . |
| 46 | This theme has also been taken up by a new Member who recently made a substantial contribution to the constitutional debate , Ian Duncan Smith , Member for Chingford . |
| 47 | The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker . |
| 48 | Babies ' christening robes were particularly affecting ; they might have been blown together by a soft breeze , so invisible was their stitching . |
| 49 | It might almost have been planned deliberately by a machiavellian priesthood trained in deep psychological indoctrination techniques . |
| 50 | And , in case that was n't enough to show the people where their duty lay , had n't the Church 's ban on Fenianism been reinforced later by a papal decree ? |
| 51 | Hemisphere imbalance may seem to explain schizophrenic symptoms , but like a good deal of the information on the development of schizophrenia , it has not yet been backed up by a convincing aetiological model . |
| 52 | They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud . |
| 53 | And he understood that in that enjoyment would lie his final freedom from a death camp called Sobibor whose memory had remained as the bars to his personal cage decades after its walls and huts and grim enclosures had been overtaken again by a Polish forest . |