Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 2 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 3 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 4 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 5 | Exploitation of AI techniques has been limited primarily by the scarcity of AI skills among RAF personnel . |
| 6 | This has been refuted both by the success rate of absent healing and trials on non-suggestible organisms such as the sick cress seeds healed by Boltwood in recent experiments at London University . |
| 7 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 8 | The scene had been altered only by the season . |
| 9 | It looked like Postine had been crushed instantly by the collapsing temple . |
| 10 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 11 | Erm I think before I start , it 's very very important , as has been pointed out by the previous two speakers , that we actually make a practical response to the closure of Hospital . |
| 12 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 13 | We never had had them , and we 've been criticized recently by the Inspector , because of that . |
| 14 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 15 | Her entrance had clearly been arranged beforehand by the Headmistress . |
| 16 | The miracle accounts have been developed both by the early Church and the Evangelists to say something important about Jesus . |
| 17 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 18 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 19 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 20 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 23 | Lord 's silence over Lamb has been broken only by the swish , frantic swish of sweeping every inconvenient fact under the Long Room carpet , now piled so high that Chris Bonnington might not scale it ! |
| 24 | He carried a stick to aid his ailing right leg which had been broken deliberately by the STB while he was in prison . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The artwork and mission tallies had been stripped away by the end of September . |
| 27 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 28 | Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects . |
| 29 | On 3 April , Raybestos denied in a statement that any irregularities had taken place : ‘ The condition of the waste disposal site has been checked frequently by the proper authorities , Cork County Council and the IIRS . |
| 30 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |