Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 2 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 3 | A threatened school teachers ' strike was averted in November , but not before a meeting of school students in support of their teachers had been broken up by riot police . |
| 4 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 5 | You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ? |
| 6 | I can not help feeling that any good done might have been cancelled out by oil fires in the Gulf . |
| 7 | Novix has been available in the UK since early 1992 and has reportedly been picked up by Parliament , BP , Amerada Hess , GEC and British Telecom . |
| 8 | They had been heading back towards London when the strange conflict in the sky had been picked up by UNIT . |
| 9 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 10 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 11 | During the First World War , Radek of the Polish party and the Left abstained on national questions ; ‘ Social Democracy does not advocate either an erection of new boundary posts in Europe nor the re-erection of those which have been torn down by imperialism ’ . |
| 12 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 13 | This work has been carried out by water authorities , internal drainage boards , and many councils , in part to reduce flooding of roads and houses , but largely to increase farm yields . |
| 14 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 15 | It has been built up by observation and/or training , and stored . |
| 16 | What is confusing about locality is the romance attached to the concept which implies that remote governments have somehow been thrust off by street corner society . |
| 17 | By ten p.m. certain members of the company were sniffing coke or had been turned on by acid or speed or grass . |
| 18 | ah , it was alright , er , it was a bit , David did a good performance , erm , and there was this boy in the first year , and he was apparently been turned down by Lambda Do you know who Lambda are , I do n't even know who they are . |
| 19 | The pilot survived the crash , but further investigation found that a month later he had been shot down by enemy fighters 12 miles off Etaples , Northern France , again flying a Tomahawk . |
| 20 | ‘ However , we were n't able to make that recommendation — although the geology is unusual and the forests have been opened up by gold miners , it is n't under desperate threat and we did n't feel that the area was of particular conservation value . ’ |
| 21 | A BREATHTAKING warning about the dangers of smoking at home has been handed out by health watchdogs and firemen . |
| 22 | Recollections have been handed down by word of mouth , of spindle spinning and early spinners in wool and flax , who lived at Adamthwaite . |
| 23 | At the same time , if the soil is one of those obviously dry , gritty or chalky ones , from which the minerals plants need as part of their food — potassium , magnesium , nitrogen , etc. — have been washed out by rain , mix in slow-release fertilizers . |
| 24 | But as he has also said , for longer that any of us care to remember all attempts at rational arguments over the best use of resources in Highfields have been drowned out by noise from the grinding of axes . |
| 25 | In Amazonia woolly monkeys and spider monkeys have been wiped out by over-hunting . |
| 26 | ICI can not argue that the buyers of its assets would all be rogues , especially now that the party-time stockmarkets of the late 1980s have been sobered up by recession . |
| 27 | Most of this was due to PR work from the financial side of the company , Lowe Bell Financial , which has been bought out by management since the period end . |
| 28 | A COMPANY has been formed to run two sawmills which have been bought out by management from the previous owners . |
| 29 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 30 | For many reasons they often lack the superficial selfconfidence of men , especially if they have been tied up by domesticity for years . |