Example sentences of "[verb] have been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desire to diversify has been prompted by a need to boost dwindling profit margins in an increasingly competitive traditional banking sector . |
| 2 | She used to repeat the expression on attend pas mieux , through tight lips , in relation to any misdemeanour reported to have been committed by a Jew . |
| 3 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 4 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 5 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 6 | It is a measure of the grim recalcitrance of the region 's problems that Schultz 's message was reported to have been saluted by a strike called in protest among the Palestinians of the occupied territories . |
| 7 | The final assault on Bijeljina was reported to have been led by a Serbian guerrilla leader known as Arkan , whose units fought in some of the most ferocious battles in Croatia . |
| 8 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 9 | Firemen were called to extinguish the blaze , believed to have been started by a faulty electric blanket . |
| 10 | The grief which she had shown over the death of her father seemed to have been replaced by a kind of nervous irritability . |
| 11 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 12 | They seemed to have been lived by a different person . |
| 13 | The researchers said the Japanese growth in wealth seemed to have been accompanied by a narrowing in the difference in incomes between the richest and poorest , whereas in Britain the gap had widened . |
| 14 | And in the even more classic ground of the Italian Apennines , where Kuenen and Migliorini first recognised the turbidity current , single graded beds up to 20 metres thick within the Macigno Sandstone are said to have been deposited by a single " whoosh " of turbid water . |
| 15 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 16 | However , price movements were said to have been exaggerated by a distinct lack of spare stock , with many market makers struggling to fill a series of programme and basket trades . |
| 17 | The dynastic change from Tudors to Stuarts in 1603 is sometimes said to have been accompanied by a shift from optimism to gloom , and Bacon certainly took an unusually sober approach . |
| 18 | He was also said to have been angered by a report by the US Export/Import Bank which criticized the structure of the Israeli economy and raised doubts about its ability to repay the debts it intended to take on to help Soviet immigrants . |
| 19 | She is said to have been caught by a Post Office detector van at her home in Chelsea , West London . |
| 20 | Like the earlier incidents the raid was thought to have been motivated by a desire within the Papuan military to cut fuel supplies to the Bougainville rebels . |
| 21 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 22 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 23 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 24 | Sick cattle or children are thought to have been harmed by a Dark Elf 's arrow , as Collins wrote : |
| 25 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
| 26 | At his barracks in London 's Knightsbridge yesterday , the major refused to comment on the new allegations which are understood to have been made by a junior officer or private . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Later the bell push rod appears to have been replaced by a cord in a tube , with the top of the cord tied to the handrail . |
| 29 | Here , the platform edge appears to have been controlled by a normal fault and the belt of shallow marine sediments is much narrower than elsewhere in the basin ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |