Example sentences of "been [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 2 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 3 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 4 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 5 | The following day , the Committee issued a manifesto expounding its justification for the rising , and appointed General Franco — who , it will be remembered , had been dismissed by the legitimate government of the nation — as chief of the Armies of Morocco and southern Spain . |
| 6 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 7 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 8 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 9 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 10 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 11 | In all three Baltic republics , and in the southern republic of Moldavia ( which like them had been annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , separatism was the dominant election issue . |
| 12 | It is a counterfeit of the spirit that goes on daily , you see , made worse because it has been joined by the visual counterfeit possible in television . |
| 13 | Mr Louis-Dreyfus , who has taken a 15 per cent stake in the new company , has been joined by the UK-based investment company , Coatbridge Holdings with 15 per cent whilst an unnamed investment fund , which is advised by the US money-center bank Citibank , has taken 19.9 per cent . |
| 14 | Completion had been delayed by the legal details , he said . |
| 15 | But the Stokesley sprinter , whose season has been delayed by the combined effects of study and injury , summarily dismissed her chances of qualifying for a second successive Olympic Games after winning the 200 metres title for the third time in seven years . |
| 16 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 17 | Quinn , they would say , was standing still , having been overhauled by the main group but able to see what had happened up the road , shaking his head in disbelief and murmuring ‘ No … no … no . ’ |
| 18 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that the government had signed an agreement the previous week to pay compensation to Jews living in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime and had thus far been unable to claim compensation under a West German agreement dating from 1952 . |
| 19 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 20 | She had been sustained by the stray wolf . |
| 21 | This independence has not been recognized by the Soviet authorities nor by any other sovereign state [ see pp. 37360-62 ] . |
| 22 | Japan 's economic structure has , for the last century , been distinguished by the continuing existence of a limited number of very large producers and a very large number of very small producers . |
| 23 | J. G. Frazer further suggests that the story of Jacob 's dream ( which was deemed so extremely significant that the spot on which it took place was henceforth sanctified in the Jewish religion ) " was probably told to explain the immemorial sanctity of Bethel , which may well have been revered by the aboriginal inhabitants of Canaan long before the Hebrews invaded and conquered the land " . |
| 24 | Elchibey was equivocal on Azerbaijan 's continued membership of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , which had never been ratified by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 25 | Amendments to the Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer that were agreed in London in 1990 have finally been ratified by the required 20 countries and will come into force in August . |
| 26 | The biodiversity convention signed at the summit has been ratified by the required 30 countries and is due to come into force at the end of this year . |
| 27 | The National Reconciliation Document encapsulating the Taif Accords , which had been ratified by the Lebanese parliament on Nov. 5 , 1989 , had stated that the Syrian forces would assist the Lebanese government " to extend the authority of the Lebanese state within a limited period not exceeding two years after the ratification of the National Reconciliation Document , the election of the President of the Republic , the formation of the Government of Reconciliation and the adoption of the political reforms constitutionally " . |
| 28 | Credit rationing in the UK has not been favoured by The Conservative government of the 1980s and early 1990s . |
| 29 | Taking on the presidency at a low point in Italian political life ( his predecessor , Giovanni Leone , had resigned over the Lockheed scandal , and Prime Minister Aldo Moro had recently been assassinated by the Red Brigades — see pp. 29053-55 ) , Pertini was credited with restoring the country 's confidence and self-respect . |
| 30 | However , in mid-February an Interior Ministry spokesman insisted that the idea that Markov had been assassinated by the Bulgarian security service was a fiction put about by the British press , and he accused the Sunday Times of having invented the umbrella scenario after British agents had planted the poisoned pellet on Markov 's body . |