Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man picked up a small portmanteau that had been hidden in shadow by the rail , and with one last sweeping look across the quay , climbed on to the gangplank . |
| 2 | The texts , which are generally agreed to have forged elements in them , have been examined in detail by several scholars , and there are only two preliminary remarks which need to be made . |
| 3 | The statistical correlation studies have been many and varied and they have been examined in detail by both Blaug and Bowman and there is no need to repeat the discussion here . |
| 4 | The development of one south London suburb has been examined in detail by Professor H. J. Dyos in his classic work , Victorian Suburb : A Study of the Growth of Camberwell ( 1961 ) . |
| 5 | Studies defining the immediate 5' flanking sequences of class II MHC genes and their associated DNA-binding proteins ( 5-10 ) , as well as transgenic mouse models containing DNA constructs covering the promoter proximal sequences have been examined in detail by other groups ( 5,11-13 , ) . |
| 6 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 7 | He questioned the evidence given by Professor Austin Gresham , a Home Office pathologist and Professor of Morbid Anatomy at Cambridge University , who conducted a second post-mortem examination on Miss Ward 's remains after they had been flown to Britain by her father , John Ward . |
| 8 | Kerry , of Sheffield , had been flown to Corfu by the Mirror — in liaison with South Yorkshire police — after a ‘ positive ’ sighting of three-year-old Ben . |
| 9 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 10 | By 1932 Gallacher had been joined at Chelsea by his two fellow internationalists Jackson and Cheyne and the three Scots became the focus of an acrimonious dispute about wages , trade unionism and bonus payments . |
| 11 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 12 | In the marble version the struts have been banished from sight by designing the statue to be seen from a restricted viewpoint . |
| 13 | As Counts of Poitou the Dukes had long ruled Poitou and Saintonge , and had been recognized as overlords by the Counts of Angoulême , La Marche and Périgord and by the Viscounts of Limoges . |
| 14 | The force of this demand had already been recognized by Macmillan by the appointment at the end of 1960 of a Prime Minister 's committee under the chairmanship of Lord Robbins . |
| 15 | In doing so it has been heaped with opprobrium by other sections of the left ( see Kettle , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Uncured pork from a firm at Wisbech , Cambs , has been withdrawn from sale by supermarkets and shops . |
| 17 | All this work has been undertaken with enthusiasm by teachers and on a voluntary basis , in a period of severe industrial action when teacher morale and goodwill were at unprecedentedly low levels . |
| 18 | Interesting work has been undertaken in Sweden by Braf ( 1984 ) relating to those aspects of the environment that can be of positive help to visually handicapped people . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Plans by a consortium of British nature bodies to buy the heart of the Cairngorm range in Scotland have been placed in doubt by the government 's failure to meet a promise to cover the running costs . |
| 21 | Some students have been placed in difficulties by local authorities that have set a community charge that is so far beyond the reach of people that even the 20 per cent . |
| 22 | The defendant 's employees had been placed in danger by being required to work in a confined space with a petrol driven engine producing poisonous fumes . |
| 23 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 24 | The ‘ progressives ’ were alarmed by the fact that the document produced by the preparatory commission on the liturgy had been altered between approval by the central commission ( over which the pope himself presided ) and reaching the Council itself . |
| 25 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 26 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 27 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 28 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 29 | has been enrolled in error by the centre |
| 30 | Dominated by an economy based on cereal crops , the region had been plunged into recession by a series of poor harvests in the 1830 s . |