Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind Full Of Worries ’ is a strolling , easy to like thing with strumming guitars , clever lyrics that could probably only have been written by a woman , and a somewhat dreary American voice that sounds a bit too country for my liking . |
| 3 | The paragraph itself could only have been written by a cad . |
| 4 | The anatomy of living things is so complex and delicate that they could only have been created by a Supreme Creator . |
| 5 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 6 | At a time when business is tottering , Landy 's enterprise sails close to the wind and could only have been mounted by a dealer whose new lease in Charlotte Street has secured his own operation . |
| 7 | But if one manages to gain their confidence the reward is a feast of learning and interesting comment which can only have been acquired by a lifetime spent largely in reading . |
| 8 | However , these thoughts would only have been thought by a Christian audience of that time . |
| 9 | The poems which impressed the gentleman could only have been produced by a poet with rings around her eyes . |
| 10 | In a handwritten document , the main body will normally have been written by a scribe or secretary , but signed by the person , or persons , issuing it . |
| 11 | Australia 's national research organisation has said that the temperature jump could still have been caused by a natural variable . |
| 12 | The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time . |
| 13 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 14 | Is the Minister aware that the cracker he pulls this Christmas will probably have been packaged by a home worker , as will the Christmas cards and gift tags ? |
| 15 | Unless and until scientists come up with a better way , the drug would probably have be administered by a catheter permanently inserted into the brain , a method currently used in treatments for inoperable brain cancer . |
| 16 | It might also have been caused by a dry soldered joint , that is , one which can make and break with expansion when warm . |
| 17 | In addition to costs incurred by such a person which would also have been incurred by a solicitor acting on his or her behalf , the court can allow on taxation a sum not more than two-thirds of that which a solicitor would have been allowed for profit costs . |
| 18 | We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff . |
| 19 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 20 | Saddiqi , a learned and formidable intellectual , was embarrassed if not frightened , because his answer could never before have been given by a subject to the Shahanshah , King of Kings , Light of the Aryans , Muhammad Reza Pahlavi , Hesitantly , he said it was because no one wanted to be associate with the Shah . |
| 21 | But for the intervention of a lone SS soldier in black battledress , he and his navigator , the Australian Donald Walsh , might well have been lynched by a hostile crowd aboard the train carrying them to interrogation . |
| 22 | Over its last two decades , slight improvement in some areas may well have been offset by a measure of decline in industrialising areas like the west Midlands and south Lancashire . |
| 23 | The desire to make arrangements covertly could well have been affected by a double pressure . |
| 24 | Richard also seems to have felt a special devotion for the shrine of Bury St Edmund 's — he may well have been attracted by a cult which celebrated a king who died in the struggle against pagans . |
| 25 | He could even have been hit by a car . |
| 26 | These issues were in dispute in long-running legal actions for negligence between parents and the drug manufacturers , and might ultimately have been tried by a judge . |
| 27 | IN THE EVENT of the Insurers failing to comply with any of the above provisions the Insurers will indemnify the Society to the limit of its interest for any loss which would otherwise have been covered by a policy to which this Agreement applies , including legal and other fees incurred by the Society as a direct consequence of such failure . |