Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He gave , as a further reason , that had no request been made for a receipt , fingerprints could easily have been obtained in other ways , e.g. , by dusting the counter .
2 The dots could have been made in other ways , and hardly noticeable anyway .
3 However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process .
4 ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people .
5 Its training grant scheme represents a commitment of £3 million that has helped secure inward investment and 3,300 jobs which could otherwise have been lost to other areas .
6 Over the same period similar and greater profits could have been gained on other securities .
7 Strictly singulares were members of governors ' personal bodyguards , drawn from auxiliary regiments , but they may also have been employed for other duties .
8 The famous Curé d'Ars would have failed an ACCM on academic grounds and St Paul would have been rejected for other reasons .
9 Most of the world 's supplies are shipped out through Singapore , although the stock will probably have been collected from other sources .
10 Corporate America could have been damaged in other ways by the takeover spree .
11 Or , of course , if she is muzzled , she may have been killed by other predators against which she would have had no defence .
12 On the issues of location and control of the former Soviet nuclear arsenal , Yeltsin said that all tactical nuclear weapons would have been moved from other republics of the former Soviet Union to Russia by July 1 , although moving long-range strategic weapons was more complex .
13 However , there are situations in which the EEG may disclose lateralised phenomena which , because of their very nature , may not have been suspected on other grounds .
14 A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’
15 These could have been described in other language , just as in Burgess 's Class 1 version of Joyce 's Portrait [ 11 ] .
16 It was essentially an hysterical solution to a problem which could have been resolved in other ways .
17 Travel to and from work may have been combined with other activities , or with a knowledge of other activities going on around them .
18 Then , when the wave and the turbidity subsided , the shallow water would have been repopulated from other habitats .
19 One problem here is that now , if pre-emptive provisions other than those prescribed in the Act are to apply , they must be in the memorandum or articles whereas previously they could have been provided in other ways , for example in an agreement between the shareholders or as part of the terms of issue of the shares .
20 We started the chapter with a quotation from Robbins ; it might equally have been drawn from other writers , such as Ortega y Gasset , F. R. Leavis or G. H. Bantock .
21 The public at home would have been rightly outraged had we not taken this action , while the lessons that would have been drawn by other countries overseas were incalculable .
22 re-examining and evaluating existing applications of the approach with a view to bringing out what has been achieved that could not have been derived by other methods
23 Certainly the Letter of 1027 is a reminder that the sentiments found in the works of Wulfstan and Ælfric may have been shared by other churchmen whose writings ( if they ever existed ) have not survived .
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