Example sentences of "that it have been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 2 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 3 | They suggested that it had been created by fusion within the metal and that muons from cosmic radiation might have been the catalyst . |
| 4 | We had often seen its crumbling ramparts from a distance , and had assumed it was Dutch , but now learnt that it had been built by the islanders , long before the Europeans . |
| 5 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 6 | Thus , whilst in 1953 Armed Forces support was invoked by the Party , in 1957 it might be said that it had been enlisted by a faction , albeit the First Secretary 's own . |
| 7 | In this case , the plaintiff purchased a painting of Salisbury Cathedral from the defendants who innocently misrepresented that it had been painted by John Constable . |
| 8 | Nonetheless the rebels immediately announced their rejection of the new Constitution on the grounds that it had been adopted by a National Assembly which the MNR considered invalid . |
| 9 | Since then the rumours have escalated : that the sister of Arkle had been remeasured by the Ordnance Survey ; that it had been resurveyed by satellite — that Foinavon , by virtue of its new stature , had joined the charmed 277 . |
| 10 | The fact that the assassination coincided with the release in Lebanon of the British hostage John McCarthy [ see p. 38405 ] fuelled speculation that it had been sanctioned by opponents of the Iranian government critical of its current conciliatory attitude towards the West [ see pp.38212 ; 38309 ] and of its role in pressing for an early resolution of the hostage crisis . |
| 11 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 12 | Mungo supposed that it had been given by , or taken from , Mr Zamoyski , since Vic was clearly not in the habit of buying smart footwear . |
| 13 | And the County Ground Hotel was warned that it had been targetted by 150 United supporters . |
| 14 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 15 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |
| 16 | Coun Carr said the council 's budget had all-party support and the fact that it had been ignored by Mr Howard showed the futility of an appeal . |
| 17 | The Labour Party , on the contrary , welcomed the result , feeling that it had been vindicated by the considerable impression made on a difficult seat . |
| 18 | On July 29 the South Korean government revealed that it had been invited by the North to attend talks in China on a development project in the Tumen River region , on the Sino-North Korean border . |
| 19 | Aoun , and most Western diplomats , blamed the LF militia for the attack , but Geaga claimed that it had been organized by Aoun 's own intelligence officers in an attempt to gain a measure of international sympathy . |
| 20 | The teacher , by now worn down by Mrs Singh 's refusal to accept Jeetinder 's limitations , told her that it had been written by ‘ a highly intelligent girl ’ . |
| 21 | Well when when it was first read by erm it was mentioned that it had been written by the Green Party by radio four and the Guardian and the Independent . |
| 22 | They persuaded one sympathetic new bishop , Robert Grosseteste , that one of their claims ( that all new bishops in the province should be consecrated at Canterbury ) was genuine , and that it had been confirmed by Gregory IX . |
| 23 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 24 | Sometimes there was even an envelope , particularly when it was plain from the contents of the letter that it had been delivered by hand . |
| 25 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 26 | The opposition pressure group Alliance for Democracy ( Aford ) founded in September [ see p. 39086 ] said on Nov. 7 that it had been banned by the government . |
| 27 | The Russian media reported on June 20 that it had been agreed by Presidents Cossiga and Yeltsin in December 1991 that Soviet documents relating to financial relations between the CPSU and the PCI should be made available to the Italian law enforcement bodies . |
| 28 | Rostov was not sure what purpose his stateroom had served previously but it was obvious that it had been occupied by at least four persons , all of whom had been possessed of diverse tastes with regard to the minimal decoration which was permissible aboard a ship designed for deep space exploration . |
| 29 | He explained that it had been approved by Bernard , which of course , by implying criticism of her husband , compounded his crime . |
| 30 | The Rev. F.B. Meyer , minister of Christ Church Westminster , felt that it had been encouraged by the fact that ‘ Christian men ’ were backing their efforts . |