Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 2 | His ideas on sovereignty and social organization seem to have been influenced by sociological positivism and by Duguit in particular . |
| 3 | Investment since 1979 also seems to have been influenced by historic designation as census tracts containing such areas saw more rehabilitation activity . |
| 4 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 5 | Merchant Navy Minister Carlo Vizzini said on April 11 that an official inquiry would start immediately and that the accident appeared to have been caused by human error . |
| 6 | I note the circles in wheat-fields , alleged to have been caused by extra-terrestrial visitors , are again in the news . |
| 7 | It was believed to have been caused by high levels of SO2 or NO2 pollution from East Germany or Poland . |
| 8 | Despite Mahdi 's calls for unity and negotiation , his appointment as President was reported to have been rejected by other rebel groups , notably the SNM , as well as by factions within the USC . |
| 9 | The semi-finals were marred by a disputed majority points decision when Londoner Chris Henry , who looked a convincing winner , was adjudged to have been beaten by Welsh champion Richard Fenton . |
| 10 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 11 | The bulk of those who remain interested in UFOs seem less likely to have been motivated by personal experience and are more willing to undergo the reappraisal needed to rationalise their approach . |
| 12 | However , the overture also appears to have been motivated by economic considerations . |
| 13 | Scotty Moore , DJ Fontana and Elvis 's original singers , The Jordanaires , teamed up for a unique tribute visit to the UK , originally to have been fronted by fellow Sun stablemate , Carl Perkins . |
| 14 | He was ultimately responsible for the emptying of the city , the forced labour in the countryside , the persecution of anyone judged to have been tainted by foreign influences , and the bloody purges of Khmer Rouge cadres suspected of being ‘ Vietnamese traitors ’ . |
| 15 | On Nov. 5 , a third government was reported to have been formed by Zaïrean exiles in Brussels , headed by Antoine Bubulu Koi Bulonda , chairman of the National Unity Party . |
| 16 | The Rutland jurors again asserted that King John , who seems to have been cast by popular tradition as the villain of the piece , had afforested the greater part of the forest in that country , whereas it seems in fact to have been a creation of Henry I. In Exmoor , the Buckinghamshire part of Bernwood , Cumberland , Worcestershire and Wiltshire the perambulations of 1300 demanded more extensive disafforestments than ever before : more than half the forest area that remained in England was declared to be outside the ancient bounds . |
| 17 | Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
| 18 | As always when he felt deserted , he went to see Chester Klein , patron of the arts by diverse hands , a man who claimed to have been excised by fretful lawyers from more biographies than any other man since Byron . |
| 19 | Any remaining intergranular porosity that escaped vadose compaction appears to have been occluded by early cementation ( Fig. 16d ) . |
| 20 | Like nearby Grassington ( q.v. ) , the village was involved in exploitation of mineral deposits beneath the moors to the north , and there are ruins of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century smelt mills as well as the so-called ‘ Panty Oon Stone ’ — a hollowed-out stone thought to have been used by medieval lead miners for dressing the ore . |
| 21 | The relevant internal Cabinet Office organization files in the CAB 21 series at the Public Record Office do not seem to have been used by previous commentators on British Cabinet government . |
| 22 | Monsengwo 's house was reported to have been attacked by armed men on Nov. 12 . |
| 23 | The Dog Tavern was a notorious Jacobite haunt , and the demonstration appears to have been staged by Jacobite agents as a way of testing popular sympathies . |
| 24 | This form , which is also found in ASL , is likely to have been borrowed by other sign languages from ASL . |
| 25 | In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act . |
| 26 | They sent him to proper schools — the first royal child not to have been educated by private tutors — but he was never just another pupil ; he was never allowed to forget the accident of birth that set him apart . |
| 27 | The answer we have arrived at is that complicated things have some quality , specifiable in advance , that is highly unlikely to have been acquired by random chance alone . |
| 28 | Moves to resolve differences on the CFE treaty were said also to have been encouraged by Soviet President Gorbachev who was reported to be keen to clear remaining obstacles in the way of a US-Soviet summit meeting [ see pp. 37945 ; 37979 ] . |
| 29 | In practice some rifts seem to be of the active type whereas others seem to have been initiated by passive rifting , although in many cases there is no consensus as to whether specific rifts are active or passive . |
| 30 | However , Keenan , along with most other Western hostages , was believed to have been held by Islamic Jihad , an underground faction of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization . |