Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [verb] by another " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |
| 2 | His staff was much too small to give a reasonable teaching course , and the absence of serious opposition that might have been provided by another English veterinary school meant there was no great stimulus to change . |
| 3 | Actually , the experiment is not perfect because , strictly speaking , Andersson only showed that the number of nests on a male 's territory was related to tail length ; the eggs could have been fertilized by another male , and the female then attracted to the territory of a male with a longer tail . |
| 4 | The central tower at Wells , in its original form closely resembling the tower of Witney church , probably owed its design to Master Thomas , but may have been detailed by another hand ( R. K. Morris in a paper delivered to the British Archaeological Association 's conference in Exeter , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | Such an " increment count and jump " instruction specifies an accumulator , index register , or store location whose contents are to be used as a loop counter ( and which will have been initialized by another instruction ) . |