Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 2 | By using individual company case-studies and macro-economic evidence , this research will provide some answers to the questions of why these alternatives failed , and whether productivity could have been raised by a general adoption of different incentive and reward structures in industry . |
| 3 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 4 | Leading the rise were the prices of privatisation shares which would have been threatened by a Labour government . |
| 5 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 6 | Ms Plouviez commented : ‘ The hoard must have been hidden by a wealthy family around 1,600 years ago . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , all this is doing is attempting to build into the machines the intelligence that would have been exercised by a skilled worker in going through the labour process . |
| 9 | But for the intervention of a lone SS soldier in black battledress , he and his navigator , the Australian Donald Walsh , might well have been lynched by a hostile crowd aboard the train carrying them to interrogation . |
| 10 | Countess Cassillis said she believed that the jury may have been influenced by a crucial piece of evidence which was submitted only yesterday morning after the judge had completed his summing up . |
| 11 | The desire to make arrangements covertly could well have been affected by a double pressure . |
| 12 | Such attitudes to both the giving and receiving of aid ( and they are so common ) spell the same dismal answer — an opportunity missed , for how much could have been achieved by a well-funded national commission . |
| 13 | By driving his own cars when he was past his peak as a driver , he lost out on the development that could have been contributed by a second opinion . |
| 14 | If the act should have been foreseen by a reasonable man as likely , it would not break the chain of causation . |
| 15 | In each individual at any moment during the period of change , a similar proportion of the copies of a gene family will have been replaced by a new variant copy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 18 | All were so shabby they might have been worn by a dressy tramp . |
| 19 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 20 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sitting up in the cold morning light we could have been sprayed by a fine grey snow as we slept — dust from the Kalahari which I can still smell in my clothes . |
| 23 | ANYONE who may have been disturbed by a recent Monitor report on the threat of cancer lurking in normal cells ( New Scientist , 3 March , p 583 ) , can sleep easy again , at least for the time being . |
| 24 | In the 1989 case , magma was forced into two arms of an underground fissure network ( northeast and south-southeast of the southeast crater ) but may have been stopped by a structural boundary ( the caldera del Piano ) seen on the surface as a break in slope and encompassing the southeast crater and stations Belvedere and TDF ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 25 | Again , she felt she was only entertaining him as he might have been entertained by a clever child . |
| 26 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 27 | ( This is consistent with the existence of the 14-km-wide Lappajârvi crater in Finland , apparently the result of an impactor of carbonaceous chondritic composition ; this crater would have been excavated by a carbonaceous asteroid 1km in diameter . ) |
| 28 | This may have been characterised by a mystic other-worldliness which had little time for the concerns of this world , and the working out of faith in relation to the everyday challenges of life . |
| 29 | The anatomy of living things is so complex and delicate that they could only have been created by a Supreme Creator . |
| 30 | It might also have been caused by a dry soldered joint , that is , one which can make and break with expansion when warm . |