Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |
| 2 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 3 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 4 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 5 | In the meantime , F/O Kohn had been flown back by ATA ‘ taxi ’ for another aircraft . |
| 6 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 7 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 8 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 9 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 10 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 11 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 12 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 13 | Such a view is easily reconciled with Marxist theory , as has been pointed out by E. Terray [ Terray , 1977a ] . |
| 14 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 15 | However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer . |
| 16 | However , as has been pointed out by Hills , there are four main factors that affect learning in practical situations : motivation , activity , understanding , feedback . |
| 17 | One of the difficulties in designing this type of interface has been pointed out by Caruso , in that the design of IIDA was finalized prior to DIALOG 's introduction of SS — Select Steps command — so these are not included in IIDA . |
| 18 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | This has already been pointed out by Hoffman but his advice has been ignored . |
| 21 | It has recently been pointed out by Dr J. R. Studd that ‘ one of [ the Lord ] Edward 's greatest problems was his inability to settle lands from his appanage [ of Gascony and the isle of Oléron ] on those who gave him loyal service in a traditional way ’ . |
| 22 | It has been pointed out by feminists that the tradition which depends upon this demarcation line fails to give a satisfactory account of conflicts that arise in the private sphere . |
| 23 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 24 | However , that this is not the case had been pointed out by Professor Lodge , of the Department of French Studies in Newcastle University , in a letter to the Guardian , in which he argues that it is a matter of concern that ‘ A level presentations in modern languages are falling away sharply , particularly among boys ’ . |
| 25 | Dr P 's argument disguises the reality that , as has been pointed out by writers as diverse as Spender ( 1981a ) and Eagleton ( 1983 ) , only a small group of people , historically , have participated in deciding which literature gets the best ‘ results ’ . |
| 26 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 27 | For this reason it may not be correct to relate thermodynamic quantities obtained from one cooling curve to those obtained by another as has been pointed out by Gee ( 1966 ) . |
| 28 | Erm I think before I start , it 's very very important , as has been pointed out by the previous two speakers , that we actually make a practical response to the closure of Hospital . |
| 29 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 30 | It has often been pointed out by commentators that there is an ambiguity in Tocqueville 's discussion . |