Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 2 | Any submission to the contrary which may be or has been made by North Yorkshire County Council and or Ryedale District Council is accordingly strongly and totally refuted , for the reasons detailed in these submissions . |
| 3 | investment ) , tourism and weaving underpin the fragile economy which is or has been augmented by local centres of enterprise such as the oil platform fabrication yard at Arnish near Stornoway ( now closed ) , the rocket-range support base at Ballavanich , the military developments at Stornoway airfield and scattered small scale initiatives such as fish processing and , notably , salmon farming in sheltered bays and sea lochs . |
| 4 | Land worked on a co-operative basis in the controlled zones has either been expropriated from the large landowners who fled when the FMLN forces took over or has been donated by middle or small range campesino families . |
| 5 | Arfon Borough Council is keen to explore the possibility of leasing houses which owners are unable to sell or have been repossessed by building societies . |
| 6 | Most are women and children — the men either opted to stay behind to fight or have been captured by the Serbs . |
| 7 | It may be noticed also , first , that no actual misrepresentation seems to have been made by Duval to his wife , notwithstanding that he had concealed from her material facts and , second , that the pressure he exerted on her to persuade her to sign does not seem to have been excessively overbearing or to have been accompanied by the threats or false promises or intimidation that are sometimes the hall marks of undue influence . |
| 8 | Or had been organized by Vic . |
| 9 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 10 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 11 | EVERYONE in the artistic world of Montparnasse knew Modi , drank with Modi or had been sketched by him . |
| 12 | Faced with this , Amy had seemed to abandon her frivolous society friends — or had been abandoned by them — and turned to someone she could trust . |
| 13 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 14 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 15 | Rather he had discovered , or had been forced by historical development , to discover the limitations of his anti-royalism . |
| 16 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 17 | If you 've got permed hair or have been inspired by Making Waves on Page 8 , then this great give-away is for you ! |
| 18 | Any hollows or unevenness indicate either that they have been badly laid or have been affected by subsidence . |
| 19 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 20 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 21 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 22 | When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure , the ‘ shame ’ attached to being held responsible for social dissensus , lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest . |
| 23 | It is difficult to know what of the next few seconds I remember , or have pieced together , or have been told by Nathan . |
| 24 | It was three or four a.m. and the music was very slow ; and usually at that time Boy would have gone , or have found someone , or have been found by someone . |
| 25 | We also found that patients with Crohn 's disease affecting the colon were likely to relapse more rapidly , a finding that has been noted by others . |
| 26 | The 16 to 18-year-old group is the very group that has been punished by the Government . |
| 27 | This in turn led to increased degradation that has been exacerbated by the subsequent use of marginal lands for cultivation . |
| 28 | To equate this ‘ avowed objective ’ of social policy with its real objective , as Marshall seems to do , involves an acceptance of a particular ideology about the ‘ welfare state ’ that has been challenged by various writers . |
| 29 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 30 | How , she asks , can we account for evil in a world that has been created by a good God ? |