Example sentences of "have been [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few sinuous ridges are seen , steep on both sides , and these too may have been raised by interior contraction . |
| 2 | He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review . |
| 3 | Resources were obtained from central government under the 1952 Town Development Act and the 1961 Housing Act which subsidized the importation of an over spill population , but these were far less than would have been provided to a designated New Town where all infrastructure costs would have been borne by central government . |
| 4 | In the Curragh Affair of 1914 some British officers appeared to claim to stand for a special national interest above that asserted by civilian politicians and their attitude would have been understood by professional soldiers in other countries . |
| 5 | The progression of understanding of various forms of disease can be traced throughout history : Short sight may not have been understood by stone-age man . |
| 6 | For instance most of this debate would not have been understood by many people in my parish . |
| 7 | The move came amid reports that Iraq 's success in initiating its post-war reconstruction programme might have been assisted by systematic sanctions-busting by some countries . |
| 8 | Whilst some of these drugs may have been obtained by illegal means , the evidence suggests that a significant minority became addicted to opioids originating from a legal source , that is , family practitioners . |
| 9 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 10 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 11 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 12 | My only complaint , and I feel it is an important gripe , is that his hand drawn maps interleaving trackbeds with suggested walking route could well have been made by any millipede unfortunate enough to bathe in an inkwell . |
| 13 | Large numbers of hoards would have been deposited by Roman legionaries recruited in Italy but prevented ( for instance , by death ) from returning to recover them . |
| 14 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 15 | Second , the exodus from the dollar created more expansionary monetary conditions than would otherwise have been adopted by some governments . |
| 16 | By 1997 , the probable date of the next general election , Britain will have been governed by one party for 18 years . |
| 17 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
| 18 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 19 | For example , our solar system is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , as is an earlier generation of nearby stars in which heavy elements could have been formed by nuclear synthesis . |
| 20 | ‘ TO SUPPOSE that the eye , with all its inimitable contrivances … could have been formed by natural selection , seems , I freely confess , absurd in the highest degree . ’ |
| 21 | Yes but what you saw er in that clip just now , erm would n't have been done by cruel methods , I can assure you of that . |
| 22 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 23 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 24 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 25 | If he is anything like me , he will have been struck by three things . |
| 26 | At the same time there was an emphasis upon paternalism to enhance workers ' motivation and promote effective work performance which might otherwise have been impaired by this control strategy . |
| 27 | Staff at a prison where six men escaped say that the break-out would have been prevented by closed-circuit video cameras . |
| 28 | In each case there were criticisms that each could have been prevented by better safety measures and checking . |
| 29 | Some of its members , namely Barry , Brodrick , Ashpitel , Jones and Lamb , must have been motivated by pure self-interest , as they themselves produce buildings in what they were saying was the hated Gothic style . |
| 30 | It is unlikely that any of this weekend 's candidates will have been motivated by recent events in the Church of England since their initial enquiry and preparation will have begun long before the Church of England Synod vote of November 1992 . |