Example sentences of "have been [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 2 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 3 | A first assessment of the non-market benefits of woodlands has been completed by the Forestry Commission . |
| 4 | An official objection to National Grid Company plans for a high-voltage overhead line from Teesside to Shipton , near York , has been lodged by the department . |
| 5 | Tea and spices have played their part in making this unforgotten paradise a priceless jewel which has been snatched by the Portuguese , Dutch , and finally the British . |
| 6 | If the company has the right to decide whether or not to award a bonus , you will not be entitled to compensation for its loss , unless the bonus has been declared by the date of your dismissal . |
| 7 | Now mo motion one O three has been withdrawn by the , the Northern Region . |
| 8 | Actually Pembo 's yellow card for that tackle has been withdrawn by the ref in question — the first time such a thing has happened . |
| 9 | A proposal by brewery giants , Guinness , to put up the price of the pint by 2p has been opposed by the Vintners ' Federation of Ireland , which represents 6,000 publicans outside the Dublin area . |
| 10 | Models nevertheless existed in some parts of Europe and variation has been explained by the use of forms of the lost-wax or -lead process ( Capelle and Vierck 1975 ; Vierck 1976 ; Arrhenius 1973 ; 1975 ; Dickinson 1982 , pp. 21–2 ) . |
| 11 | This fall in pregnancy rate has been explained by the greater use of contraceptives by teenagers , particularly those over sixteen . |
| 12 | Yet , on the one hand this contradiction has been hidden by privileging Gregory 's comments and neglecting the importance of the Epistulae Austrasiacae and the writings of Venantius Fortunatus ; on the other , it has been explained by the apparent lack of educational opportunities available to Gregory in the households of Nicetius and Avitus . |
| 13 | The Festival 's tribute to the work , teaching and writing of Raymond Williams will this year feature Alan Fountain who has been invited by the Festival and the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham to give a special talk in his memory . |
| 14 | ICAS has been invited by the Bank of England for its considered views on the subject and as a result a report is being sent to the DTI and to other interested bodies . |
| 15 | The exhibition has been arranged by the Poussin scholar , Professor Richard Verdi of the Barber . |
| 16 | The project has been arranged by the Liverpool Anti-Racist and Community Arts Association . |
| 17 | The success of the initial pilot programme has been recognised by the Ministry of Health and the Institute of Health Education and led to Maurice , Kate and Ana meeting with Government officials and representatives from UNICEF to establish a long-term training programme in five Romanian regions , starting in November of this year . |
| 18 | This interdependence of general economic policy with monetary policy has been recognised by the French government as well : one monetary policy means one economic policy . |
| 19 | THE meteoric rise to rugby fame of Nigel Walker , the former Olympic hurdler , has been recognised by the Welsh selectors . |
| 20 | With the original tidal basin completely refurbished and the new locked basin fully operational , its standing among the best has been recognised by the award of 5 Gold Anchors , the only marina on the South East or East Coasts to receive this top rating . |
| 21 | Attention to detail and our high level of engineering integrity has been recognised by the top yacht designers and has led to constant involvement in rigs for all yacht projects from seventy to three hundred feet . |
| 22 | That has been recognised by the Government . |
| 23 | I only say that it is the route of the Council of Europe that has been recognised by the Community as leading to Community membership itself . |
| 24 | The excellence of the programme has been recognised by the European Community which aids the project through the European Social Fund , and staff at the Centre share their expertise with colleagues in training centres in Ireland and the Netherlands . |
| 25 | In this country , the creation of Interdisciplinary Research Centres ( IRCs ) within the universities , funded by the research councils alone or in collaboration with industry , has been recognised by the ABRC ( Roberts , Phillips ) , but the assessment structures needed for the evaluation of such complex proposals are still in a rather fluid state . |
| 26 | The Faculty 's commitment to excellence is evidenced by the outstanding research record of many of its staff and departments and has been recognised by the receipt of research funding from many external bodies . |
| 27 | This has been recognised by the Panel and for many of the purposes of the Code and SARs , " control " is deemed to be the holding of an aggregate of 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company . |
| 28 | The Code has been recognised by the courts as establishing objective standards of fairness towards minority shareholders which they will take into account when exercising their own discretion under , for example , CA 1985 , s430C or s459 . |
| 29 | Now his success has been recognised by the Football League , which has chosen him to manage a Second Division Select 11 to play an equivalent team from the Italian League — at Caserta on the 4th of March . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ It is very encouraging that the specification produced by the consortium has been recognised by the government as the official national specification for council tax systems . |