Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highly organized learned career which obtained in the empire from the late sixteenth century onward has been described by a number of authors , western and Turkish , most recently by Gibb and Bowen in their Islamic Society and the West and by Uzuncarsili in his . |
| 2 | Since that time , the mathematical evidence that black holes can emit thermally has been confirmed by a number of other people with various different approaches . |
| 3 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 4 | ‘ Mind Full Of Worries ’ is a strolling , easy to like thing with strumming guitars , clever lyrics that could probably only have been written by a woman , and a somewhat dreary American voice that sounds a bit too country for my liking . |
| 5 | The paragraph itself could only have been written by a cad . |
| 6 | The anatomy of living things is so complex and delicate that they could only have been created by a Supreme Creator . |
| 7 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 8 | At a time when business is tottering , Landy 's enterprise sails close to the wind and could only have been mounted by a dealer whose new lease in Charlotte Street has secured his own operation . |
| 9 | But if one manages to gain their confidence the reward is a feast of learning and interesting comment which can only have been acquired by a lifetime spent largely in reading . |
| 10 | However , these thoughts would only have been thought by a Christian audience of that time . |
| 11 | The poems which impressed the gentleman could only have been produced by a poet with rings around her eyes . |
| 12 | As Bowers has pointed out , however , it must be questioned whether the same results could not have been achieved by a strictly enforced parking policy , given the lack of parking space . |
| 13 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 14 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 15 | Who would not have been deceived by a king disguised , and in prose ? |
| 16 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 17 | Indeed it is impossible for us to imagine a social system operated by human beings which was not ordered by language ; human culture , as we know it , could not have been invented by a society of deaf mutes . |
| 18 | In a handwritten document , the main body will normally have been written by a scribe or secretary , but signed by the person , or persons , issuing it . |
| 19 | Even the term ‘ cantata ’ appears not to have been used by a German composer before 1638 . |
| 20 | Australia 's national research organisation has said that the temperature jump could still have been caused by a natural variable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time . |
| 23 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 24 | Is the Minister aware that the cracker he pulls this Christmas will probably have been packaged by a home worker , as will the Christmas cards and gift tags ? |
| 25 | It might also have been caused by a dry soldered joint , that is , one which can make and break with expansion when warm . |
| 26 | In addition to costs incurred by such a person which would also have been incurred by a solicitor acting on his or her behalf , the court can allow on taxation a sum not more than two-thirds of that which a solicitor would have been allowed for profit costs . |
| 27 | We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff . |
| 28 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 29 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 30 | Saddiqi , a learned and formidable intellectual , was embarrassed if not frightened , because his answer could never before have been given by a subject to the Shahanshah , King of Kings , Light of the Aryans , Muhammad Reza Pahlavi , Hesitantly , he said it was because no one wanted to be associate with the Shah . |