Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly without the deprivation payments some good inner city practices would have been bankrupted by the new contract . |
| 2 | It may even have been increased by the new Article 92 , in spite of the continuing ban on discrimination on the basis of nationality . |
| 3 | Geologists , mapping the site , found it difficult to understand how they could have been shaped by the normal forces of erosion . |
| 4 | She argued that the history of " scum " should have alerted the IBA to its controversial nature , and that any decision to screen it should have been made by the appointed members of the Authority , and not by their executive staff . |
| 5 | An invention that might have been made by the chemical industry 50 years previously , was ultimately forced on it from outside . |
| 6 | It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head . |
| 7 | In deference to custom , there was a party in the child 's honour , central to which was a dish of peas , which symbolises the lessening of grief to those who have been in sorrow — never far from the Jewish consciousness , and of particular relevance to this family ; a copy of the scriptures was placed in the child 's hands , along with a pen — how especially appropriate for this child ! — which will have been followed by the usual Talmudic discussions in which , no doubt , Lyon and Solomon will have capped each other 's comments . |
| 8 | Access to the adjoining land may well have been provided by means of a road or ’ hammerhead ’ and the road will almost certainly have been adopted by the local authority . |
| 9 | Moreover , the government 's attitude would undoubtedly have been coloured by the intriguing possibility of having one of its most prominent members — namely , Michael Foot — among the defendants at the Old Bailey . |
| 10 | The case for the removing of NTBs leading to a fundamental reconstruction of the economy of the EC may have been overestimated by the Cecchini Report . |
| 11 | There will also be the need for a user-specific lexicon with the facility to add and delete items , especially for proper nouns , individual abbreviations and misspellings , as well as words which may have been missed by the other dictionaries . |
| 12 | The thousands of strays created by reckless , thoughtlessly uncontrolled cat-breeding could all have been prevented by the tube-tying techniques , without resorting to the full butchery of neutering . |
| 13 | In addition , about 20 per cent of projects , mostly larger than average , had little or no additionality ; that is , they could have been implemented by the private sector alone . |
| 14 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
| 15 | In what ways would your reading have been altered by the following instructions : ( a ) Find out about the effects of industry on workers ' standards of living . |
| 16 | Although it is still possible that subjects ’ perceptions of the tasks could have been altered by the different exemplars of a junction that were viewed in the different experiments , it does not appear that the subset of 24 were unrepresentative of the full 60 . |
| 17 | Or could the shape have been re-arranged by the fierce wind ? |
| 18 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 19 | The porch was commissioned by Bishop John Jewel , and its design may have been influenced by the neo-classical architecture to which Jewel had been exposed during his years of exile in Mary 's reign . |
| 20 | The courts may also have been influenced by the rising premiums which had to be paid by anyone involved in the construction of buildings . |
| 21 | But Slade L.J. , who gave the judgment of the court , addressed also the question whether , in any event , the bank would have been affected by the undue influence of the husband . |
| 22 | But , although the situation may have been exploited by the Communist party , it was a purely cultural debate in which her defenders claimed , with justification , that her contribution to the promotion of music was inestimable . |
| 23 | J. G. Frazer further suggests that the story of Jacob 's dream ( which was deemed so extremely significant that the spot on which it took place was henceforth sanctified in the Jewish religion ) " was probably told to explain the immemorial sanctity of Bethel , which may well have been revered by the aboriginal inhabitants of Canaan long before the Hebrews invaded and conquered the land " . |
| 24 | A great mystery is why Eliot , who was more of a relativist than Pound , should have been accepted by the academic establishment whereas Pound was not . |
| 25 | For Order 69 to apply the process must be in connection with ‘ civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal ’ and must have been received by the Senior Master with a written request for service from a consular or other authority in a convention country ( which term includes countries with which the United Kingdom has a relevant bilateral Convention and countries party to the Hague Convention ) or from the Foreign Secretary ( who would have been approached via diplomatic channels by the authorities of another state ) 262 . |
| 26 | Even if at the moment of decision the patient is fit to make it , his will may have been overborne by the undue influence of another , or by deception or misinformation of a significant kind . |
| 27 | But seven more victims came forward during the police investigation and ‘ as many as a hundred ’ may have been abused by the smooth-talking doctor , a senior detective admitted . |
| 28 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 29 | Similarly , at the other end of the belt , Chalk was later discovered in south-west Ireland ( where it must have been noticed by the early surveyors , but they had evidently been too scared of their autocratic director to record such an unlikely phenomenon ) . |
| 30 | About £350 million will have been invested by the private sector when the approved projects are completed . |