Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] by [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |
| 2 | That scaffolding must itself have been built by an earlier form of cumulative selection , at whose nature we can only guess . |
| 3 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 4 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 5 | Although the LDP 's overall majority in the House of Representatives ensured that the proposal would have been approved by the lower chamber , the party 's minority position in the House of Counsellors ( where it controlled 113 of the 252 seats ) made approval in the upper house unlikely . |
| 6 | Valentine Cunningham 's excellent study , British Writers in the Thirties , records that , in prolier-than-thou fashion , Calder-Marshall briefly signed himself Arthur Marshall , and had he continued to do so he would have been overshadowed by a later NSS contributor whose speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction . |
| 7 | We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff . |