Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [noun pl] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A particular emphasis has been placed on drivers by way of the national ‘ Speedwatch ’ campaign and further campaigns will deal with the wearing of seat belts and drinking and driving . |
| 2 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 3 | There are also Roman siegeworks which may have been used for exercises by troops from nearby temporary camps still visible around Pennymuir . |
| 4 | Official figures were that 2,876 had been approved as candidates by April 2 , including 52 women . |
| 5 | While Forest are into their fourth month rooted to the bottom of the Premier League , Parker 's form for the new title favourites , Aston Villa , has been rewarded with call-ups by Graham Taylor for England 's first two World Cup qualifying ties against Norway and Turkey . |
| 6 | In the spring of 1990 a number of SF shareholders , including Rubio and former Finance Minister Miguel Boyer , appeared to have been protected from losses by means of insider knowledge . |
| 7 | A similar DOE has been found in experiments by Edwards , Jagielo , Zentall and Hogan ( 1982 ) , who used different types of grain to differentiate the outcomes , and by Peterson and Trapold ( 1984 ) who presented ( in the correlated condition ) food after a correct response for one trial-type and just a feedback tone for a correct response for the other type of trial . |
| 8 | Examples of the latter have already been introduced on PEPs by Fidelity and Gartmore . |
| 9 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 10 | Great pressure has recently been put on clinicians by hospital managers and politicians to reduce waiting times . |
| 11 | Painting in ripstop nylon has been taken to extremes by Tom Casselman . |
| 12 | That 's been foisted on women by men . |
| 13 | About 2000 had been submitted by doctors by August 1981 . ’ |
| 14 | Of course Red Indian ( Native American ) women have often been kissed in movies by cowboys and soldiers , but how do we think a six-foot-three-inch Masai , almost naked , kissing a French woman will play ? |
| 15 | This extreme view was not even sustained by Smith himself , although it has been repeated at intervals by people who should have known better . |
| 16 | Until then he had suspected that the whole bizarre affair might have been kept under wraps by Morton and his cronies in the secret services , to see how it turned out . |
| 17 | Direct tests of this suggestion have been conducted in experiments by Westbrook , Bond , and Feyer ( 1981 ) , by Bond and Westbrook ( 1982 ) , and by Westbrook , Provost , and Homewood ( 1982 ) , in which the duration of the initial pre-exposure trial was varied . |
| 18 | The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston . |
| 19 | Various aspects of the CORINE project have been described in papers by Rhind et al. ( 1986 ) , Wiggins et al. ( 1987 ) , Briggs and Martin ( 1988 ) , Briggs and Mounsey ( 1989 ) and CEC ( 1990c ) . |
| 20 | A debate on the issue had been prompted by strikes by teachers and students in higher education , calling for greater democracy and improved working conditions . |