Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Milmo said that it was ‘ utterly and completely false ’ to suggest that Mr Clay had been influenced by the prospect of some plum job when he retired . |
| 2 | Ari had been struck by the smells of Arcady more than anything . |
| 3 | By this stage , Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis had been dragooned by Churchill to become Minister of Defence and , in effect , ‘ overlord ’ of the Admiralty , War Office and Air Ministry . |
| 4 | Ken and Orton had been introduced by Michael Codron in 1964 . |
| 5 | Like most of the women in the street , Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , heightened expectations of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela had been fuelled by remarks on Jan. 8 by his wife Winnie Mandela , who said after a three-hour visit to his prison bungalow that " I do n't think that we are talking about months any longer " . |
| 7 | The trial of Winnie Mandela had been marked by intense media and public interest , and was widely seen as having brought about the collapse of her personal popularity among ANC followers . |
| 8 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 9 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 10 | Added to which , David had been interviewed by Melody Maker and said he was gay which gained a lot of publicity . ’ |
| 11 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 12 | The apothecary had lied and Lady Eleanor had been murdered by other means . |
| 13 | Hector had been huddled by the door , and he had snuffed at once at her feet , whimpering . |
| 14 | Lucy had been approached by an international humanist organisation , there was funding , and Lucy was raring to go . |
| 15 | The fatal accident inquiry at Ayr had been told by the lawyer for the golf club that the most important way to stop accidental drownings is by education . |
| 16 | For the past fourteen years Lij Yasu had been held by Ras Kassa in comfortable detention at Fiche . |
| 17 | Most importantly , since the rail links to Verdun had been severed by artillery fire , he enlarged the road for trucks between Bar-le-Duc and Verdun the ‘ Sacred Way ’ the only supply line to the front . |
| 18 | In the gunbattles yesterday , Col Peck said a number of relief agency offices and residences in central Mogadishu had been hit by bullets and what he called ‘ ballistic fallout ’ . |
| 19 | Dr Selikoff had been listed by Dr Murray as among those who were politically motivated in the general controversy over the health effects of asbestos . |
| 20 | The 59-member BLDC had been appointed by the NPC in June 1985 [ see p. 33660 ] and had published a first draft of the Basic Law in May 1988 and a second draft in February 1989 [ see p. 36763 ] . |
| 21 | Benninghoff stated that the KPR had been organised by ‘ The Communist or Radical Group in Seoul ’ . |
| 22 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |
| 23 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 24 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 25 | The Habsburgs had been stung by the loss of Silesia into a series of far-reaching administrative reforms , while Russia had once more displayed her military strength and had consolidated her dominant position in Poland . |
| 26 | Our announcing staff at CBR had been enhanced by the addition of Ray Mackness , Sheila Russell , Ted Devlin and Saul Ornest , but the main shows were still handled by the old reliables , Dick Halhed and Bill Herbert . |
| 27 | Annie Jameson had been sent by her parents to study singing in Italy , where she married . |
| 28 | Imports of vegetables from the former COMECON ( Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ) countries had fallen , and fruit imports from Cuba had been reduced by 75 per cent . |
| 29 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 30 | Prosecuting counsel Mr David Williams told the court that British Telecom had been plagued by thefts and in May last year officers from the regional crime squad began keeping observations on the trio . |