Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] by the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | This means that your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Building Housing Cost Index ( prepared by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
2 | Your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Durable Household Goods Section of the Government 's General Index of Retail Prices in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
3 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
4 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
5 | For 120 years the Bulls Head has been kept by the same family … this is landlord David Gane outside the pub around 1920 . |
6 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
7 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |
8 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
9 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
10 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
11 | The Government has been told by the former Lord-Justice General that its appointment of temporary judges in Scotland 's courts could lead to miscarriages of justice . |
12 | They could have been made by the same craftsman . |
13 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
14 | We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
15 | We should be careful not to look only at our friends and colleagues whose style may have been affected by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
16 | In this respect his art and that of the New Sculptors differed little from the earlier romantic neo-classicism of a sculptor like , whose work would nevertheless have been decried by the same practitioners as cold and outmoded . |
17 | Two points are worth remembering from all this : perfect swims do n't last forever and for every one that declines another will have been changed by the same forces into an excellent one . |
18 | Thus , where substantial quantities of the same material equipment or products are discovered , archaeologists tend to assume that they must have been produced by the same people . |
19 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
20 | The bullets had followed each other too quickly from different angles for them to have been fired by the same person . |
21 | From the beginning Jarrad had been run by the same directors as Jesner and run in good faith in what the directors perceived to be in the family 's interest . |
22 | In all patients a quadruple loop ( W ) pouch had been constructed by the same surgeon ( WHFT ) according to standard techniques . |
23 | It was after the Indian team had begun their experiments that they learned about Jones and how his experiments had been motivated by the same ideas as Chatterjee had had . |
24 | He expected European countries to put pressure on Arab countries to enter into direct negotiations with Israel , and claimed that the EC 's trust in the PLO to relinquish terrorism had been exploited by the latter . |
25 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
26 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
27 | For the first time Isabel wondered if those airs had been caused by the same stupid helplessness which seemed to be gripping her . |
28 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
29 | He recalled the incident in the boiler room when both Pearce and he had been assailed by the same noises that Beaton had heard . |
30 | Ferguson thought the Scottish striker might be forced to withdraw from the trip to Berne because he feared he had been afflicted by the same illness which has hit more than a dozen of the Old Trafford squad . |