Example sentences of "he have [be] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 2 | It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians . |
| 3 | He has been seen by many vets , and a dermatologist , who have prescribed a range of treatments including antibiotics and anti-inflammatories . |
| 4 | But he has been influenced by Old Masters . |
| 5 | Show Geoff some charity I WOULD like to draw to the attention of all regular shoppers and visitors to Liverpool , who have heard the lovely voice of Geoff Caddick who does lots of charity work for the Newborn Baby Appeal , to the fact that he has been harassed by certain local business people who wish to move him on . |
| 6 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 7 | Here , Pip has realised what a disaster he is and he has been hit by hard consequences as a result of his greediness . |
| 8 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 9 | He has been idolised by fictional characters from Dean Moriarty in Kerouac 's On the Road to Barley in Le Carre 's The Russia House , and he is one of only two people looked up to by Miles Davis . |
| 10 | ‘ No person who shows that he has been tried by any competent court for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for any other criminal offence of which he could have been convicted at the trial for that offence save upon the order of a superior court made in the course of appeal proceedings relating to the conviction or acquittal ; … |
| 11 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 12 | He had been lampooned by contemporary dramatists . |
| 13 | Recently , however , he had been criticized by fellow Republicans as ineffective at a time when education was increasingly achieving national prominence as a key domestic issue . |
| 14 | A staunch ally of President Soares , he had been criticized by political opponents of Soares for his soft handling of relations with China . |
| 15 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 16 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 17 | At the end of his visit Hogg said that he had been assured by Lebanese leaders that all three British hostages in Lebanon were alive . |
| 18 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 19 | From childhood he had been fascinated by natural history , and at Cambridge he decided on a career which would enable him to combine medical research with his interest in comparative biology . |
| 20 | Northumbrian Water offices have received telephone inquiries and Labour 's Stuart Bell said he had been contacted by numerous people claiming they were having to pay more . |
| 21 | A few days before he was killed , José Miguel Mérida Escobar had reported to the Office of the Human Rights Procurator that , since the findings of his report became publicly known , he had been followed by unidentified armed men . |
| 22 | Malcolm had been told to expect a prison sentence , but the judge took pity on him , saying that he had been provoked by racial abuse from drunken louts . |
| 23 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |
| 24 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 25 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 26 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |
| 27 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 28 | A post mortem showed he had been hit by five bullets and had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets . |
| 29 | He died , ‘ a wasted skeleton ’ , 4 August 1818 in Galway , where he had been befriended by two black soldiers of the 77th Regiment . |
| 30 | He was not prosecuted when he returned to England in 1919 and insisted that he had been employed by British Naval Intelligence . |