Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [verb] by [art] " 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 | The most has been brought by the relationships that were supposed to be pure and noble . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 5 | Pressure to do so has been increased by the recent row over Franz Steinkühler , the leader of Germany 's biggest trade union . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The paragraph itself could only have been written by a cad . |
| 9 | of which Orwell had derisively remarked in ‘ Inside the Whale ’ ( 1940 ) that it could only have been written by an innocent for whom murder is at most a word . |
| 10 | The requirement of establishment imposed by the West German rule could only have been justified by the need to protect policy-holders . |
| 11 | The anatomy of living things is so complex and delicate that they could only have been created by a Supreme Creator . |
| 12 | It could have been provided as an additional barrier to odour , but this could only have been achieved by the use of waxed paper — as seen in the Lethieullier vault at Little Ilford , Essex — between the top of the sides of the coffin and the lid . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , these thoughts would only have been thought by a Christian audience of that time . |
| 17 | The poems which impressed the gentleman could only have been produced by a poet with rings around her eyes . |
| 18 | The intact pellets collected from varying distances from the nest , however , could only have been left by the adults . |
| 19 | As it had been used after employment it could only have been protected by an express term . |
| 20 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 21 | The emergence of the satire movement in the early sixties ‘ marked a new stage in the social revolution ’ : ‘ Like the pop artists ( and the pop singers yet to come ) the satirists formed part of a new generation coming to the surface in English life , one young enough to have been moulded by the garish , anarchic and youth-conscious atmosphere of the late fifties … . ’ |
| 22 | The US company Du Pont acknowledged the same day that it had exported to Iraq a special lubricant used for nuclear weapons but stressed that permission to do so had been granted by the US government in 1989 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The cliff hideout also possessed its own ritual bath , a mikveh , which would normally have been used by the priest for religious purification . |
| 25 | Directives would require to be implemented by familiar forms of domestic legislation — but the substance of the legislation would already have been determined by the Council . |
| 26 | 9.1.3 Alternatively to Condition 9.1.1 , the Seller shall be entitled at its absolute discretion to refund the price of the defective goods in the event that such price shall already have been paid by the Purchaser to the Seller , or , if such price has not been so paid , to relieve the Purchaser of all obligation to pay the same by the issue of a credit note in favour of the Purchaser in the amount of such price . |
| 27 | After all , the European Community of the 12 may already have been overtaken by the events of the past 18 months . |
| 28 | What is meant by calling these ‘ complex ’ is that they serve a clear and distinct function which could already have been envisaged by the testator in making his will . |
| 29 | Even if she sets a track record she would already have been upstaged by the people 's champion . |
| 30 | The importance of the session could easily have been obscured by the excessive use of jargon . |