Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [adj] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal for a new trading zone and for regional economic co-operation had first been mooted in 1989 by Turkey , which was responsible for convening this meeting . |
| 2 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there is no doubt that the USM 's distinct identity has been eroded since 1990 by convergence in the regulation and cost of joining the Official List and the USM . |
| 4 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is the view from beneath an archway of the castle , which takes in the parish church , said to have been built in 1363 by John of Gaunt himself . |
| 6 | An earlier bridge on this site , the Judith Bridge , had been built in 1170 by Vladislav II but was destroyed by flood in 1342 . |
| 7 | The first such claims had been made in 1987 by Ivan Boesky , a United States arbitrageur , during federal investigations into allegations of insider dealing for which he was subsequently imprisoned [ see p. 36017 ] . |
| 8 | Apart from these , a small and inadequate map had been made in 1772 by T. Tinker , junior , called A Plan of Manchester & Salford . |
| 9 | Surely hotels should be held to contract when payment has been made in full by clients ? |
| 10 | Until recently the plates were on long-term loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh , having been lent in 1956 by collector and supporter of the North Carolina Museum , Robert Humber who purchased them in 1938 . |
| 11 | Cliff 's tally of 20 League goals in 1963–64 , when he was joint-top scorer with Peter Burridge , has only been exceeded since 1961 by Mark Bright in 1988 and Ian Wright in 1989 , but Cliff again headed our list of scorers in Division Two in 1964–65 with 11 more goals , and he did so in spite of spending several games at centre-half . |
| 12 | Chloroform had already been employed by Dr James Simpson , Professor of obstetrics at the University of Glasgow ; ether had first been used in 1846 by Dr Robert Liston for an operation at University College Hospital in London . |
| 13 | Cheverel Manor , in one of her Scenes of Clerical Life , has been transformed in 1788 by Sir Christopher Cheverel , from a plain brick family mansion into a Gothic manor house , thus anticipating ( in George Eliot 's view ) ‘ that general reaction from the insipid imitation of the Palladian style ’ . |
| 14 | In the Shatt al-Arab , Iran had been accommodated in 1975 by Iraq 's acceptance of the thalweg principle as applicable throughout the length of the waterway ( and not in part only , as under the provisions of Constantinople ( see below ) in 1913 and the treaty negotiated between the two countries in 1937 ) . |
| 15 | Churchward was determined to provide Swindon works with the best and most modern plant and machinery possible , the works having been founded in 1842 by Brunel and ( Sir ) Daniel Gooch [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | The theatre was built on the site of the old church of Santa Maria della Scala which had been founded in 1381 by Beatrice della Scala , wife of Bernabo Visconti . |
| 17 | The college had been founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck as a ‘ Mechanics ' Institute ’ , enshrining those virtues of self-improvement and industry which corresponded with the best qualities in the character of William Joyce . |
| 18 | Ridley also confirmed that the DTI had been contacted in 1988 by SE and WS , but that " on the information available at the time " it had been decided that export licences were not required . |
| 19 | This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports . |
| 20 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 21 | The following notes have been reproduced in full by courtesy of the London Chamber of Commerce which are organising this mission . |
| 22 | One possibility lies in the proposal for a nuclear-free zone in Southeast Asia , which has been promoted in particular by Indonesia and Malaysia . |
| 23 | The Children 's Book Circle has just celebrated its 30th birthday , having been started in 1962 by Grace Hogarth . |
| 24 | The semantics of what was originally conceived as a specialist-generic debate have been explored in particular by Vickery ( 1973 ) and by Hey ( 1979 ) . |
| 25 | It had been begun in 1928 by Padre Mazzetti , of the Dominican fathers in the Santuario , but had never been finished or occupied up until now . |
| 26 | The interior of this beautiful yacht has been up-graded in 1987 by Nautor in Finland . |
| 27 | State of Fear : Censorship in Burma is one of the 28 ‘ Country Reports ’ that have been published since 1989 by ARTICLE 19 . |
| 28 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 29 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 30 | The action was started last week by solicitor Michael Freeman and , on Thursday , Lloyd 's submitted Mr Randall 's preliminary findings which showed reinsurance arrangements had been changed in 1988 by syndicate 290 but the facts were concealed from the auditors . |