Example sentences of "to have [been] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 2 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 3 | In one test , for example , children are asked to identify a traditional English beer tankard — an object unlikely ever to have been seen by a child from a Muslim background in which alcohol is proscribed . |
| 4 | This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings . |
| 5 | Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising . |
| 6 | The conductor and pianist Myung Whun Chung , director of the Opéra-Bastille , writes : We have all been fortunate to have been touched by the spirit of Olivier Messiaen through his music and I , personally , also by his human qualities . |
| 7 | I was alone on a mountain with an unpredictable and completely un-Yorkshire person who appeared to have been touched by the sun . |
| 8 | However , it now seems to have been accepted by the RICS that the overseas experience of limited liability , together with that of UK land surveyors , livestock auctioneers and other companies , indicates that in practice the ethical problem may be overstated . |
| 9 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 10 | While at Messina , en route for the Holy Land , he seems to have been overcome by a sense of the wickedness of his life . |
| 11 | Structural studies of the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group have refined the understanding of the deformational history : the early episode of major slump folding identified previously now appears to have been followed by a period of upright folding that has been subsequently modified by south-directed thrusting . |
| 12 | The " Misery of the Human Condition " was to have been followed by a treatise on " The Dignity of the Human Condition " , which was never written , presumably because of Lothar 's election as pope . |
| 13 | When Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud made a grant to Waltham an oral declaration seems to have been followed by the donor girding his sword round the image on a crucifix . |
| 14 | The occasion of Wulfhere 's intervention in Surrey is likely to have been the death of King Ecgberht , which appears to have been followed by an interregnum or at least a contested succession . |
| 15 | The £750,000 survey — in which 20,000 adults will be asked detailed questions about the frequency and nature of their sexual activities — was to have been funded by the Department of Health , the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 16 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
| 17 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 18 | For example , a company which has given a preference to a person connected with the company is rebuttably presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer that person . |
| 19 | Firstly , in the case of preferential treatment , s239 relates to transactions within two years before the onset of solvency rather than six months and the vendor is presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer creditors unless the contrary is shown . |
| 20 | And of course , being a composer , I think it would be very hard not to have been influenced by The Beatles . ’ |
| 21 | In the Felixstowe Justices case the court seems to have been influenced by the fact that the applicant was a journalist with a serious purpose . |
| 22 | The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) . |
| 23 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 24 | Ultimately , 10 ( 6% ) patients from within the whole group had further surgery the nature of which seemed to have been influenced by the results of the test . |
| 25 | Despite her questionable health , Leapor seems not to have been troubled by the physical demands of her work . |
| 26 | The courts do not appear to have been troubled by the notion of an issue being determined by an expert other than an individual . |
| 27 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 28 | Slimly-built Gilbey resigned from Holbein in February last year when the firm was reported to have been hit by the recession with large debts . |
| 29 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 30 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |