Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 2 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 3 | MADONNA is the latest high profile performer to have been cited by US presidential candidate Bill Clinton in his quest to court young voters . |
| 4 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 5 | These examples clearly demonstrate that the scenes existed but they were hardly likely to have been seen by stone masons or potters to copy . |
| 6 | ( ‘ If the Subject appears to have been lost by accident continue in the direction the Subject was proceeding . ’ ) |
| 7 | These papers were a series of articles published in 1787 and 1788 to persuade the citizens of New York to ratify the U.S. Constitution ; most of the papers were known to have been written by Hamilton or by Madison , but the authorship of twelve of them was disputed . |
| 8 | The copious footnotes to the recipes in this book were believed by his contemporaries to have been written by Sir Walter Scott . |
| 9 | In their second petition , which appears to have been written by Chidley , they justified their political activity on the basis of ‘ our creation in the image of God , and of an interest in Christ equal unto men , as also of a proportionable share in the freedoms of this commonwealth . ’ |
| 10 | The Cambridge Theatre Company 's production of The Revengers Tragedy — a work believed by some to have been written by Thomas Middleton , others by Cyril Tourneur — opened this week at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford where it runs until tomorrow ( Saturday ) before transferring on its tour to the Theatre Royal , Winchester from Tuesday to Saturday next week . |
| 11 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 12 | This equating of non-natural user with unreasonable risk in negligence seems to have been recognised by MacKenna J. in Mason v. Levy Auto parts of England Ltd . |
| 13 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 14 | There in the King 's sitting room the clerk noted ‘ a harpsichord by Handell in a walnut tree case ’ Clearly there are two scribal errors here the spelling of the composer 's name and the omission of a verb : these make it possible to argue ( if a little perversely ) that this was just another of those many instruments reputed to have been played by Handel . |
| 15 | This appears to have been accepted by Egypt at the time of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company . |
| 16 | The profits of war were not to be found only in France : a grateful king rewarded his commanders with grants at home , and the wounds of 1341 seem to have been healed by success in war . |
| 17 | Mrs Ellen Morpeth is thought to have been overcome by fumes after the chair she was sitting on caught fire . |
| 18 | In some respects this mosaic appears also to have been influenced by pavements in the western part of the province . |
| 19 | Both aspects of the legal realist movement seem to have been influenced by pragmatism . |
| 20 | THE PRESENT generation of scientists is not the first to have been troubled by problems of communication , as Dr Slaughter shows in this well documented account of the rise and fall of the 17th century universal movement . |
| 21 | Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers . |
| 22 | Indeed several attempts were made on her life , until finally one day she was found dead on the rocks , thought to have been killed by gelignite . |
| 23 | Abroad three foreign journalists including a Briton are reported to have been killed by sniper fire in the Somali capital Mogadishou . |
| 24 | He has also examined the well-publicised cluster of leukaemia cases around the Dounreay nuclear plant and concludes it is likely to have been caused by exposure to incoming oil workers rather than radiation from the plant . |
| 25 | Symptoms were unchanged in 7% of patients and therefore were unlikely to have been caused by gall stones . |
| 26 | The report looked specifically at the cluster of cases around Dounreay and concluded that they were most likely to have been caused by oil workers rather than emissions from the nuclear plant . |
| 27 | The problems of all five aircraft were thought to have been caused by fuel with a low octane level . |
| 28 | Sharks , killer whales , and false killer whales are believed to present some threat to dolphins - scar marks thought to have been caused by shark attack have been observed . |
| 29 | Ten firemen are in a special isolation ward with ‘ glowing fingertips ’ , nausea and diarrhoea believed to have been caused by chemicals . |
| 30 | The volume was originally to have been illustrated by Stanfield ; after his withdrawal from fear of anti-Catholic bias in the book , Samuel Palmer was commissioned , and provided 4 vignettes engraved on wood . |