Example sentences of "been [vb pp] by an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has now been joined by an attractive estate model , also available with automatic . |
| 2 | Having completed a tour of the museum , Elisabeth and Svend found themselves back in Svend 's office , where fresh coffee had been placed by an unseen hand . |
| 3 | So : your Uccello has been skewered by an assegai-wielding sociopath convinced that some noxious item of legislation will be reversed once he Goths a valuable masterpiece . |
| 4 | This has been explained by an increased number of transient sphincter relaxations after a meal . |
| 5 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 6 | The new artificial pancreas has been developed by an American company called Biohybrid Technologies , and the Harvard University Medical School . |
| 7 | Obviously personal inclination is very important , but personal inclination can often arise from having been taught by an exceptional teacher , or having a scientist parent who helps with homework . |
| 8 | It could mean the recovery for the communal purposes of the monastery of land which had previously been regarded by an aristocratic family as a private-property share in its endowments . |
| 9 | In Germany , the Social Democrats ' caution about reunification has been punished by an enthusiastic electorate . |
| 10 | They had apparently been contaminated by an oily radioactive slick . |
| 11 | At this moment she looked to Joe like a witch and her voice and words sounded as ominous as any that could have been uttered by an authentic witch , as she hissed at him , ‘ I am more concerned about what happens to you than what a lot of stupid men do in their aim to kill each other . |
| 12 | It was even claimed that she had been poisoned by an African wife by whom Maclean was credited with having had several children . |
| 13 | She was a thin , long-waisted girl of about thirty , with a bony , intelligent face and a cap of dark curling hair which had been layered by an obvious expert , and no doubt expensive , hand to lie in swathes across the forehead and to curl into the nape of her high-arched neck . |
| 14 | Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell . |
| 15 | Bargains began to be made for the first time , and it became readily apparent to the men that whatever rights they thought they had lost , had been transposed by an orderly system which benefited them as well as the Mineral Lord . |
| 16 | The second round of voting in the general election , which had been scheduled for Jan. 16 , had in the meantime been cancelled by an existing body , the High Security Council , which included Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali . |
| 17 | The first of these was the Greek tanker Filikon L , reported to have been attacked by an Iraqi aircraft . |
| 18 | On Dec. 20 the house of Ros Chhun , Minister of Transport and Communications , had been attacked by an angry mob . |
| 19 | James F Hudson became the new Field Officer and also editor of the BDN , which had been edited by an editorial board since Frame 's death , and Mrs C. Laidlow ( Kitty ) , a Lady Welfare Officer at Carlisle , was put in charge of the new office as administrative Secretary . |
| 20 | However the adoption of the systems approach as a textbook framework , although producing some stimulating texts which effectively transcended the traditional boundaries of physical geography ( e.g. Chorley and Kennedy , 1971 ; Trudgill 1977 ) , has not been paralleled by an equal amount of adoption as a vehicle for research programmes . |
| 21 | They have forgotten who they are , knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter . |
| 22 | At the central government level at least , the traditional preoccupation with loyalist unity and the constitutional issue seemed to have been superseded by an active concern with setting up ‘ development ’ programmes . |
| 23 | Foucault 's recent work has been dominated by an explicit preoccupation with ‘ power ’ , and in his History he argues that the apparatus of sexuality is of central importance in the modern play of power . |
| 24 | Results within Yarns and Fabrics have been dominated by an invigorating performance by Blackwood Brothers . |
| 25 | Lucy had been approached by an international humanist organisation , there was funding , and Lucy was raring to go . |
| 26 | Jane Seymour is the cool heroine and Julius W Harris is a really nasty baddie whose right arm has been severed by an enthusiastic crocodile . |
| 27 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 28 | ONE of the great controversies of archaeology , the possibilty of transatlantic cultural links in ancient times , has been re-opened by an American expedition which claims to have found three large stone tablets inscribed with ancient Semitic hieroglyphs in a 9,000ft high lost city deep in the Peruvian jungle . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , HDTV has been preceded by an enhanced television signal called Extended Definition ( EDTV ) . |
| 30 | We do not know , therefore , whether he had himself been repelled by an arid scholastic theology that so frequently reduced ‘ God ’ to an idea that our limited minds could grasp . |