Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 2 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 3 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 4 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 5 | We have only looked , in this chapter , at a small subset of the parameter values that have been examined by researchers in recent years . |
| 6 | The site has already been examined by planners from Stroud District Council , one of the most environmentally conscious authorities in the country . |
| 7 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |
| 8 | Wear on square-headed brooches has been examined by Leigh as a means of understanding how they were used to fasten clothing ( 1980 , p. 487ff. ; 1985 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 10 | My ‘ dream-girl ’ was still there , but had now been joined by members of her family . |
| 11 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 12 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 13 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 14 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 15 | About 1,000 Czechoslovaks gathered to watch and applaud the departure , which had been delayed by crowds of would-be emigrants in East Germany who had jammed railway stations in the hope of hitching rides as the trains passed through . |
| 16 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 17 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 18 | The other semi-final has been delayed by difficulties in arranging the quarter-final between Charles Outred and K MacDonald of Stornoway . |
| 19 | Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards . |
| 20 | Jarman has just been honoured by Bafta with the Michael Balcon Award for outstanding achievement and Edward II was released on video last month . |
| 21 | Nor did Gustave — shouting for wine , leading the animal round the room and bellowing its virtues : ‘ The young phenomenon is three years old , has passed the Académie de Métecine , and has been honoured by visits from several crowned heads , etc . ’ |
| 22 | Following treatment , calves should be moved to pasture which has not been grazed by cattle in the same year . |
| 23 | One by one the riders fell , not without causing loss themselves : three of the villagers lay in their own gore , and one had been blinded by slingshot in the confusion of the raid . |
| 24 | Commentators noted that this motion had been intended by Yeltsin as a compromise to encourage approval of Gaidar as Prime Minister . |
| 25 | IN THE run-up to Denmark 's referendum on the Maastricht treaty on May 18th , enthusiasts for a united Europe have been paralysed by fear of offending Danish voters . |
| 26 | Organic models of nature had often been sustained by analogies between microcosm and macrocosm , between man as an organism and the rest of creation . |
| 27 | This and other abortive moves brought frustration and some despondency to the commandos who had been gathered by Keyes into large groups to train with their landing force from the Royal Navy . |
| 28 | It is approximately 1:1.618 and has been recognized by artists throughout history as being uniquely harmonious . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dependent conditionals have often not been distinguished by philosophers from one or another larger category of " if " statements . |