Example sentences of "[adv] have been [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the ground in front of the simple headstone were several dark splashes , which could only have been made by blood . |
| 2 | Only part of this extensive cloth and flock mill remains , much having been destroyed by fire . |
| 3 | However , the SPO 's electoral prospects apparently had been damaged by Draskovic 's earlier calls , much toned down during the campaign , for redrawing Serbia 's borders to include parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia : many voters were frightened away by what sounded like a call for civil war . |
| 4 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 5 | The registration would not have been obtained by fraud . |
| 6 | It could almost certainly not have been done by air power alone . |
| 7 | He acknowledged that such a discount could not have been entered by error . |
| 8 | He acknowledged that a discount of this kind could not have been entered by error . |
| 9 | Some of those involved in the helicopter escape from Gartree would not have been deterred by life imprisonment . |
| 10 | In its prime the solid curtain-walled castle could not have been taken by storm up the sheer cliffs rising from the sea on three sides ; and a deep ditch hewn from the rock on the landward side made any surprise attack on the gatehouse or drum towers improbable . |
| 11 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 12 | A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably . |
| 13 | Cuts in temporary nurses and overtime have been agreed by West Lambeth health authority , London , after its running deficit tripled to £1.5 million in a month . |
| 14 | This decision was plainly absurd : all confidentiality in the information had evaporated with overseas publication , and no additional damage to the national interest could possibly have been done by re-publication of the contents of the book in the British press . |
| 15 | This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance . |
| 16 | For paper SPRs , the SPR identifier should already identify the paper form and should also have been allocated by LIFESPAN , using the paper ranges specified in the configuration file . |
| 17 | The old insulation will in any case have become compacted and inefficient , and may also have been saturated by condensation within the loft space , due to inadequate ventilation . |
| 18 | The advice given by these advisers would properly have been guided by expediency as much as by any rules of interpretation and as such can not be taken to represent a body of thought about dreaming . |
| 19 | This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides . |
| 20 | Laura 's Beau was third last year but has been in rotten form since then having been plagued by blood trouble . |
| 21 | Bill admits that her involvement may sometimes have been initiated by curiosity but her concern was always genuine . |
| 22 | It may indeed have been caused by sunstroke or by an epileptic seizure . |
| 23 | The reform , which came into force on Jan. 1 , 1990 , allowed the option of civil marriage and provided for family law courts to rule on divorce cases which until then had been decided by church courts . |
| 24 | For example , greater capital mobility has permitted many governments , for good or ill , to initiate development projects that previously had been starved by capital shortage and has helped raise the levels of ambition for future competitiveness and importance on the world stage . |
| 25 | Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds . |
| 26 | If the ring had not captured and ruined Gollum 's mind , he would never have been overcome by desire of it and hence he would not have snatched the Ring and fallen into the Cracks of Doom , the only place the Ring can be destroyed . |
| 27 | Skinner 's notes to the final disc in the Christchurch recordings of the Byrd masses skate over the exact reasons for this change of pitch and , although I would agree that the brighter sound of trebles has the greater immediate impact than men 's voices alone , it could be argued that if this Mass was ever used , it would most likely have been performed by solo voices or a small and musically skinned ensemble gathered to celebrate a recusant Roman service , probably without the participation of boys . |
| 28 | Paul Craddock of the British Museum Research Laboratory has pointed out that the silver in metals used at Igbo Ukwu would almost certainly have been recovered by European and Arab smiths of the period , while the unusually low iron content suggests the copper was made by a very primitive technology . |
| 29 | The Maniots , who trace descent from them , boast of never having been subdued by Slav or Turk . |