Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial insecurity , once the big driving force , has been eased by the salary , perks and pension of the commissionership , according to his friends . |
| 2 | It had been hidden by the mother , a 16-year-old pupil who kept her pregnancy secret even from her parents . |
| 3 | PETER BURNS , head of the Sheffield World Student Games organisation , has been dismissed by the company which is organising the event , Universiade GB Ltd . |
| 4 | An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State . |
| 5 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |
| 6 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 7 | Protests from shop owners in Sunderland over increased parking charges have been dismissed by the city 's director of engineering Tom Ball who said that city parking was still amongst the cheapest in the country . |
| 8 | These are important policy issues which have been examined by the author , as well as other commentators , elsewhere and which merit further critical analysis ( e.g. Hudson , 1990 ; Phillipson , 1990 ; Hughes , 1991 ; Osborne , 1991 ) . |
| 9 | One thing was clear : he had certainly meant to kill him , and had only been stopped by the officer 's determined and intelligent fighting . |
| 10 | The information had been furnished by the French underground , and , as the crews had been told , there was no way of knowing if the information was correct . |
| 11 | Competing with Mr Perv for Norris 's affections is true crime author Jack Lansford ( Tom Berenger ) whose interest has been aroused by the building 's grisly past . |
| 12 | His major contributions to Welsh scholarship , however , were the numerous studies he published of the intricate structure of the four branches of the Mabinogi and of aspects of the Arthurian legend , a field in which his interest had been aroused by the work of Sir John Rhŷs [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | However , this may have been overturned by the House of Lords in Lonrho Ltd . |
| 14 | The Assembly , dissolved on Sept. 28 , had been recalled by the government of President Hugh Desmond Hoyte on Dec. 3 and had passed a bill restoring the seats of opposition members . |
| 15 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 16 | Whether or not the wine has been blended by the solera method or by actual blending , it is made up in lotes and left to rest until the parts have ‘ married ’ . |
| 17 | For the shoot , Colin , C and Jhelisa have been joined by the rest of the touring band , keyboard player Robert Graham and drummer Gavin Knight . |
| 18 | They have now been joined by the Double Knit gauge ( SK860 ) and probably , by the time you read this , by the fine gauge ( SK830 ) . |
| 19 | She had been irritated by the cook 's refusal of her offer to make a simple white sauce , though Mrs Cranbrook was up to her eyes in work . |
| 20 | Blanche 's eyes widened slightly , as though she had been irritated by the reply . |
| 21 | The firm had also been asked by the Bank to make a s 41 report and was trying to finalise the 1990 accounts , which had been delayed by the lack of access to ICIC . |
| 22 | Its passage had been delayed by the calling of the December general election , at which Prime Minister Poul Schlüter had sought to strengthen his position by obtaining a mandate both for the budget and for a programme of tax reforms [ see pp. 37868 ; 37924-25 ] . |
| 23 | The payment of the back pay had been delayed by the prorogation of Parliament by the Blaize adminstration in August [ see p. 36847 ] to avoid a motion of no confidence . |
| 24 | Discussion of the details has been delayed by the breakup of the Soviet Union which increased the number of potential signatories and created differences over the role of private investment in energy industries . |
| 25 | The United Church of Christ 's Office of Communication has been honoured by the University of Missouri School of Journalism for its years of campaigning for justice in broadcasting . |
| 26 | In 1970 — that is , since the reforms of the Roman Catholic Church instituted by the Second Vatican Council — they have both , unlike any other women saints , been honoured by the Church with the title of Doctor . |
| 27 | The man behind the renowned St Tiggywinkles animal hospital has been honoured by the Queen . |
| 28 | His body was found very close to it , but he had obviously been blinded by the blizzard . |
| 29 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 30 | Even Maisie , who was now standing a few yards from the window , breathing heavily , seemed to have been paralysed by the sight of him . |