Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | In the case of a restricted licence , the LA must revoke it if , twice within a five-year period , the holder is found guilty of carrying goods which should have been covered by a standard or standard international licence . |
| 3 | If the act should have been foreseen by a reasonable man as likely , it would not break the chain of causation . |
| 4 | In line with the peace treaty , however , both should have been replaced by a new national civil police force , and the FMLN claimed that the government had deliberately withheld the necessary resources for this to be accomplished . |
| 5 | It was therefore timely that the RIBA should have been approached by a number of parties interested in publishing the Journal and eventually a deal with The Builder Group was struck by the Institute . |
| 6 | It is unsurprising that the lawyers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should have been attracted by a contractual analysis of the company . |
| 7 | That North should have been caught by a memorandum , one of the common plants of the swamp , was especially ironic . |
| 8 | Finally , no financial support should have been provided by a pharmaceutical company . |
| 9 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 10 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 11 | It must have been sheltered by a submarine ridge , for there were no currents to disturb the fine sediments on the floor or to bring in oxygenated water from nearer the surface . |
| 12 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |
| 13 | Ms Plouviez commented : ‘ The hoard must have been hidden by a wealthy family around 1,600 years ago . |
| 14 | He must have been hit by a stone . |
| 15 | The prospective author must be British or resident in Britain and the book must have been published by a British publisher or a publisher with a British branch . |
| 16 | And there also , in an earlier picture , was the brown bear fur coat : Dorothy , flanked by Helen and Edward as children , stood on a pavement against a background of London taxis and buses — they must have been caught by a street photographer on one of those pantomime or ballet outings . |
| 17 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 18 | A damned dangerous architectural feature if you ask me , which added weight to my theory that the pub must have been designed by a feminist with a grudge . |
| 19 | Surely , it must have been bought by a company . |
| 20 | His walks through the streets of Rome must have been accompanied by a constant sensation of deja vu . |
| 21 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 22 | Again , she felt she was only entertaining him as he might have been entertained by a clever child . |
| 23 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 24 | All were so shabby they might have been worn by a dressy tramp . |
| 25 | But Chancellor Kohl appears to have been startled by suggestions that his letter to President Mitterrand last week implying an intention to go slow on EMU might have been inspired by a desire to play the German unity card in the West German general election next year . |
| 26 | Or a similar division might have been made by a comma in [ 12 ] : [ 13 ] With a click , the discreet door shut . |
| 27 | Some small amelioration of the economic catastrophe might have been gained by a programme of thoroughgoing compromise with Poland , but the success of such a policy depended on the reasonableness of Polish demands and on the good sense of the Danzig electorate . |
| 28 | Have you ever come out in a rash after working in the garden , and thought it might have been caused by a plant you were handling ? |
| 29 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 30 | The laying-out and washing of a corpse , the ‘ dressing and trimming ’ as it was known , might have been performed by a member of the family , though by the early seventeenth century it was more usual , both in town and country , for this service to be provided by the coffin-maker . |