Example sentences of "be [verb] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 2 | TWO senior strategic positions in BNFL have been filled by women . |
| 3 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 4 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 5 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 6 | The plan has been dismissed by ecologists as both gimmicky and technically unviable . |
| 7 | We have only looked , in this chapter , at a small subset of the parameter values that have been examined by researchers in recent years . |
| 8 | The site has already been examined by planners from Stroud District Council , one of the most environmentally conscious authorities in the country . |
| 9 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |
| 10 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 11 | Other prospects include Cligga Head , a greisenised granite on the north Cornwall coast which has been examined by adits and drilling , and Redmoor , where drilling has shown a large , low-grade sheeted vein swarm up to 80 m wide and several hundred metres long . |
| 12 | In recent months , as the Islamic revolution has gathered force , almost all the country had been stopped by strikes . |
| 13 | The Director of Public Prosecutions , Sir Allan Green , resigned on Oct. 3 after he had been stopped by police while talking to a prostitute in a London " red-light " district . |
| 14 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 15 | It is highly doubtful that any offshore centre could claim that it has never been tainted by drugs money . |
| 16 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 17 | My ‘ dream-girl ’ was still there , but had now been joined by members of her family . |
| 18 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 19 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 20 | The public will also have been irritated by attempts to link bloodsports with conservation , to say that the countryside takes its present form to suit foxhunting and to claim that the fabric of society in the countryside will fall apart without hunting . |
| 21 | Savings due to reduced admissions are dismissed by administrators because the saved places are readily used up from endless waiting lists . |
| 22 | They are dismissed by others in the occult , who claim that the group ‘ tell outsiders this tall story ( of Satan being the Son of God ) to make themselves look respectable ’ . |
| 23 | About 1,000 Czechoslovaks gathered to watch and applaud the departure , which had been delayed by crowds of would-be emigrants in East Germany who had jammed railway stations in the hope of hitching rides as the trains passed through . |
| 24 | The other semi-final has been delayed by difficulties in arranging the quarter-final between Charles Outred and K MacDonald of Stornoway . |
| 25 | Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards . |
| 26 | Its a stranger 's car … but all three children happily get into it … and they 're not the first many of the 750 youngsters … who 've attended Aylesbury Police 's emergency training session … have been tricked by Police officers posing as strangers … |
| 27 | Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement . |
| 28 | Nor did Gustave — shouting for wine , leading the animal round the room and bellowing its virtues : ‘ The young phenomenon is three years old , has passed the Académie de Métecine , and has been honoured by visits from several crowned heads , etc . ’ |
| 29 | But by the beginning of the Seventeenth Century , her character had been redefined by playwrights such as Chettle and Dekker as a harlot . |
| 30 | Not all lectures are given by lecturers , or sermons by preachers . |