Example sentences of "been [verb] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 2 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 3 | of drivers who reported never speeding , 8% had been stopped by the police ; this rose to 62% for those drivers who admitted to speeding regularly . |
| 4 | Mr Harris also said ‘ with absolute certainty ’ that any adverse findings by the JDS would have been overturned by the courts . |
| 5 | The coalition had been joined by the Peasants ' Party and the Peasants ' Alliance . |
| 6 | Injections of " capital " from this source will probably differ wildly from one partner to the next and so , taking the generalised capital clause at its face value , adjustments to capital sharing ratios will appear to be taking place at annual intervals , whereas no change at all will have been intended by the partners . |
| 7 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've made it , ’ shouted Tommy , in a voice that might even have been heard by the Germans . |
| 9 | All the tracks had previously been heard by the reviewers who , almost in passing , noted that it was ‘ naive , energetic and uncomplicated . ’ |
| 10 | His ‘ system ’ was founded on the principle of the Association of Ideas , a principle which had been recognized by the Greeks and by Locke , but which Hartley used to explain everything . |
| 11 | A handful of Muslim Generals had been assassinated by the radicals — he himself , a captain then , had narrowly escaped such a fate when a gang with knives and spears had broken into his home . |
| 12 | He had been sacked by the sponsors when finally he arrived at the course . |
| 13 | The organisers of the Church National Housing Coalition described the lobby as one of the most effective political campaigns ever to have been undertaken by the Churches . |
| 14 | The organisers of the day ( the Churches of National Housing Coalition ) have hailed it as one of the most effective political campaigns ever to have been undertaken by the churches . |
| 15 | Interestingly , emphasis has been placed by the decision-makers within these bodies on the individuality of the complainant . |
| 16 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 17 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 18 | ‘ I am very sad , ’ he wrote to me , ‘ about the disgraceful way you have been treated by the Seniors , and because of it I have informed the captain I am resigning . ’ |
| 19 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 20 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 21 | It had been arranged by the conspirators that the young shop steward , who had already collected two warning notes as planned , would take out a set of spark plugs in his lunch box at the mid-day break . |
| 22 | The search for characteristics which are common to all services has floundered and attempts to treat the services as a homogeneous group have been plagued by the differences between services , in the kinds of labour involved , the type of work performed and the nature of the product . |
| 23 | Considerable opposition to one-party rule had also been registered by the churches , the trade union movement and students , as well as by the opposition parties . |
| 24 | Small notebook systems have already been developed by the likes of Tandy Grid , NCR and Apple , and some of them are already use for simple form filling applications like supermarket stocktaking or car fleet management . |
| 25 | Two types of locks had been developed by the Romans : the tumbler lock , and the lever lock . |
| 26 | The teaching equipment on WISE VI has been developed by the Faculties of Engineering and Environmental Studies , and the WISE Vehicle Programme Unit . |
| 27 | Erm we do n't know the details of the consideration that has been given by the authorities , what we are concerned with is what they are now proposing . |
| 28 | No warning had been given by the soldiers because they believed their comrades ' lives were in danger and they were under fire from the hijacked car , the hearing was told . |
| 29 | Afterwards , when the vows to love , honour and obey had been given by the brides , and the grooms had slipped rings onto their fingers , they sang the Jubilate Deo , which was a great favourite : |
| 30 | Léonie kept her hands outside the covers as she had been taught by the nuns at her primary school . |