Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 3 | Or a similar division might have been made by a comma in [ 12 ] : [ 13 ] With a click , the discreet door shut . |
| 4 | He must have been hit by a stone . |
| 5 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 6 | He could even have been hit by a car . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Astley Cooper claimed ( incorrectly ) that the constitution of the College would not allow more professors to be appointed , although it is difficult to imagine that a course , ideally lasting three years and covering the health and diseases of all species of domesticated animals , could have been undertaken by a professor , an assistant professor and a demonstrator . |
| 9 | Lee 's spontaneous remark could have been followed by a suggestion that he tried to sort the vans from the other vehicles in the garage , or he could have been encouraged to watch vans travelling outside the school . |
| 10 | On the one hand , arrest may have been followed by a term of remand and then imprisonment . |
| 11 | As most of Paterson 's book deals with the histories of Ayrshire 's leading families , his comment on the shoot may have been coloured by a desire to please the gentry involved in the Society , as by 1870 interest had declined to rock bottom with no entries for the papingo shoot . |
| 12 | These aesthetic thoughts will have been overcome by a glance at the grass , the playing surface . |
| 13 | Could not the job have been done by a doctor , a surgeon and one attendant ? |
| 14 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 15 | Saddiqi , a learned and formidable intellectual , was embarrassed if not frightened , because his answer could never before have been given by a subject to the Shahanshah , King of Kings , Light of the Aryans , Muhammad Reza Pahlavi , Hesitantly , he said it was because no one wanted to be associate with the Shah . |
| 16 | Most of the cases determined after a trial would have been begun by a writ issued in 1985 or 1986 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You may have been instructed by a superior in your organisation to solve a problem by writing a report on it . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 24 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 25 | Alan Bates 's Muse Of Fire , for example , could have been compiled by a computer : its selection of all the biggest blazes in world literature lacks any sense of dramatic propulsion , a shapeless cabaret-set without music . |
| 26 | Some of the questions were so easy that they could have been answered by a 10-year-old , let alone a student of 16 . |
| 27 | IN THE EVENT of the Insurers failing to comply with any of the above provisions the Insurers will indemnify the Society to the limit of its interest for any loss which would otherwise have been covered by a policy to which this Agreement applies , including legal and other fees incurred by the Society as a direct consequence of such failure . |
| 28 | Over its last two decades , slight improvement in some areas may well have been offset by a measure of decline in industrialising areas like the west Midlands and south Lancashire . |
| 29 | Anybody who had hoped to get past these two ladies without paying her dues would have been squelched by a look ; and the pile of dollars in front of the treasurer grew as the number of white name cards in front of Mrs MacPhail diminished . |
| 30 | It was placed a little further forward along the wall of the building than would have been selected by a novice and apparently with a knowledge of the positions of the interior walls . |