Example sentences of "they had been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 2 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 3 | They had been joined by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Grierson . |
| 4 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 5 | While they had been delayed by Duvall 's attack on Devlin , the thing had withdrawn from the basement window and lurched through the storm to the front of the building . |
| 6 | They had been noticed by Jessica at half past ten that morning , searing the peaceful waters of Lough Swilly with a little sporty powerboat , bright red and snarling . |
| 7 | The Bishop of Ely claimed Benwick as part of his chase : they had been met by the bishop 's bailiff , leading three priests in full vestments , with Bible , cross and candle , ‘ so that they could make no inquest there that day ’ . |
| 8 | The crew had one last night with their families , and the opportunity to share with them some of the advance they had been given by Yong . |
| 9 | They had been conquered by Menelik but among them the Abyssinian imprint was as yet barely discernible , for which I was thankful . |
| 10 | They had been quashed by Bow Street magistrates court earlier this year on the grounds of delay . |
| 11 | In fact , they had been organized by members of the Ulster Protestant Volunteers . |
| 12 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 13 | in 1195 , when King Richard Coeur de Lion was at Chinon , no less than fifteen so-called Assassins were apprehended , and confessed that they had been sent by the King of France to kill him . |
| 14 | In the immediate mode on BBC Micro , all control codes ( with the exception of |
| 15 | This had involved asking about twenty small businesses if they had been assisted by LEDU and what were their attitudes to LEDU . |
| 16 | There is no reason at all to suppose that the policies of these states would have been more intelligent or less influenced by fear and ambition if they had been decided by parliaments elected on the widest and fairest franchise possible and carried out by diplomatic services freed from social distinctions . |
| 17 | The phrase " freedom of the press " was the chant of the mob which carried courageous publishers in triumph through the streets of London after they had been acquitted by juries for seditious attacks on George III and his ministers . |
| 18 | In an emotional debate , all Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) deputies walked out in protest , claiming that they had been insulted by Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) leader Leszek Moczulski . |
| 19 | I thought that those were wise words when I read them and was delighted to find that they had been written by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border ( Mr. Maclean ) in The Lake District Herald only this week . |
| 20 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 21 | That was true , and if it suggested they had been alerted by the security pass and not by a friend in the underpaid BBC World Service , then so much the better . |
| 22 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 23 | Differences emerged between the manufacturing and service sectors , however , with 44 per cent of the former saying that they had been affected by green concerns , as against just 29 per cent of the latter . |
| 24 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 25 | They had been annihilated by stealth , it was rumoured , or even by sorcery . |
| 26 | They had been opposed by Japan , the Soviet Union and the United States . |
| 27 | He thought they had been carved by people living in the tombs , perhaps the monks , who dreamed fine dreams of other places , who longed for new horizons . |
| 28 | The immediate increase in those deposits will come from transfers from banks but the ultimate origin will be a diversion of funds away from the destinations to which they had been channelled by unit trust managements . |
| 29 | They had been killed by Charlie Company , very few of whose members had refused to obey the orders of Lieutenant William Calley . |
| 30 | He indicated they had been killed by shelling , seeming to contradict reports that many in Zepa had starved to death . |