Example sentences of "[vb past] have been [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 2 | He was ultimately responsible for the emptying of the city , the forced labour in the countryside , the persecution of anyone judged to have been tainted by foreign influences , and the bloody purges of Khmer Rouge cadres suspected of being ‘ Vietnamese traitors ’ . |
| 3 | Both the branches studied had been influenced by this political directive . |
| 4 | As always when he felt deserted , he went to see Chester Klein , patron of the arts by diverse hands , a man who claimed to have been excised by fretful lawyers from more biographies than any other man since Byron . |
| 5 | I note the circles in wheat-fields , alleged to have been caused by extra-terrestrial visitors , are again in the news . |
| 6 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 7 | My expectations from analogy with the past , like a dog 's , are sometimes realized , sometimes disappointed ; if the mechanism were not often effective it would not as it evolved have been spared by natural selection ; but I , as a rational being , want to be able to judge when it is reliable . |
| 8 | Pitt-Rivers studied the processes involved when ditches were abandoned and silted up , and the broad conclusions that he reached have been verified by later experiments . |
| 9 | Merchant Navy Minister Carlo Vizzini said on April 11 that an official inquiry would start immediately and that the accident appeared to have been caused by human error . |
| 10 | After a year marked by sharp fluctuations in the price of gold , a floor at approximately $365 a troy ounce appeared to have been established by late December . |
| 11 | The trespassers were Fawcett and partners , and appeared to have been financed by one Crackenthorpe . |
| 12 | A Crown Court jury saw an extract from the film said to have been watched by two defendants a fortnight before the alleged murder attempt . |
| 13 | On April 3 a bomb which police suspected had been planted by Sikh separatists exploded near a Hindu religious procession in Batala , killing some 35 people . |