Example sentences of "have [be] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 2 | I am by no means certain , however , he is right because , if he is right , the silence of the Act as to whether applications can be made ex parte or inter partes — which means , in my judgment , they could be either in appropriate circumstances — has been by the Rules cut down to deprive a party from being able to make an ex parte application . |
| 3 | The main method of revision has been by the publication of new editions . |
| 4 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
| 5 | and the basis , basics would have been by the end of next week but certain , assuming that they are not interrupted and sort of dragged onto something more lucrative the bad news will have been quantified by then . |
| 6 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 7 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 8 | ‘ Unless you 're in Henley , ’ she observed with privileged acerbity and he laughed , embarrassed as every policeman had been by the revelations just made of Thames Valley 's modus operandi . |
| 9 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 10 | The United States ' amicus brief tried , unconvincingly , to demonstrate that both these forms of procedure should be regarded , and had been by the drafters of the Convention , as forms of ‘ service abroad ’ . |
| 11 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |
| 12 | He was suddenly moved by her physically , as he had been by the sight of her in the film . |
| 13 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 14 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 15 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 16 | Although the sterling crisis which followed the budget of 11 November 1964 alerted more ministers to the economic realities , Labour 's tiny majority and the need to go to the country again as soon as possible meant that all too often electoral considerations were given priority ( as they had been by the Tories earlier in 1964 ) over economic policy . |
| 17 | The proceedings were watched by Michael Crook , principal Adult Education Organiser for Norfolk , along with other AE officers , Peter Softly of Norwich Sports Council , mentioned particularly how impressed he had been by the day . |
| 18 | I hope I 've been by the time |
| 19 | Scoured as they have been by the turbulent and freezing sands that eroded every trace of fittings and furnishings whatsoever , their walls and ceilings do bear signs : remnants of incised and sometimes inlaid strings of rectangular shapes that numerous experts have confidently identified as writing , though no truly plausible translation has ever been constructed . |
| 20 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 21 | You can tell where he 's been by the trail . |