Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 2 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 3 | These had been broken up by the owls , and a collection of 1128 bones representing 27 individuals was compared with the bone numbers from intact pellets at the same nest site . |
| 4 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 5 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |
| 6 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |
| 7 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 8 | The ground will be the first all-grassed cricketing venue in Spain , and both the installation of an irrigation system and the seeding of the site have been carried out by the members themselves . |
| 9 | ( 10 ) If the property is leasehold : ( a ) please confirm that the seller has complied with all the covenants in the lease ; ( b ) does the seller know whether any items of substantial expenditure for decoration , maintenance or repair have been carried out by the lessors recently but not yet charged to tenants , or are any such contemplated in the near future ? ( 11 ) Is the seller aware of any overriding interest under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ? ( 12 ) Please confirm : ( a ) that all gas and electrical installations are the seller 's absolute property and are included in the purchase price ; ( b ) that the electric light installations down to the bulb holders will be left intact ; ( c ) that all furniture , furnishings and fittings not included in the sale and all rubbish will be removed before completion . |
| 10 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 11 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 12 | Police claimed that they were forced to open fire when the crowd attacked them , whereas the ANC said that several of its supporters , grouped to defend themselves from a pro-Inkatha attack , had been shot down by the police . |
| 13 | Meanwhile work on full employment policy had been handed down by the politicians to a committee of officials . |
| 14 | Suggestions for extension work should have been thought out by the publishers , also follow-up assignments and how the software might be fitted into further schemes of work or related to other subject areas . |
| 15 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 16 | Teresa , who has regularly been called on by the Clothes Show and TV-am as well as many famous faces , will demonstrate simple application tips and talk about how to choose make-up from the bewildering choice available . |
| 17 | The firm 's stand has been borne out by the earnings figures published by Fortune : for the calendar year 1987 , Korn/Ferry 's recruiting fees reached $64.6m. worldwide , of which $45.2m. was generated in the USA . |
| 18 | We always knew there were many first-class journalists in the region and this has been borne out by the contributions . ’ |
| 19 | Agricultural details were a nice reciprocal touch : the Hind helicopters , with which the Sandinistas were destroying the contras , had allegedly been shipped in by the Russians in crates labelled agricultural produce . |
| 20 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 21 | After the initial successes of the Normandy landings , the Allied armies had been pinned down by the Germans . |
| 22 | It was just like Ireland to have a disastrous afternoon against Wales when we had been set up by the bookies as firm favourites . |
| 23 | This change has been brought about by the activities of prescriptive grammarians and educators , not — as the Harvard account implies — by some mysterious property of the language itself . |
| 24 | These changes , radical in the UN context , have been brought about by the changes in the nature of the UN 's missions , and in the soldiers who carry them out . |
| 25 | The deputy chief of France 's air and border police , Mr Pierre Quilici , said the warning had been passed on by the Americans several days ago . |
| 26 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 27 | If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns . |
| 28 | The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover . |
| 29 | Freemasons were seen to be the power behind the French Revolution , whose role in contemporary disturbances such as the Russian Revolution had been taken over by the Jews . |
| 30 | Far from focusing more tightly on issues , many of the Ham & High 's key stories have been taken up by the nationals . |