Example sentences of "have been [verb] by some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 2 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 3 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 4 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 5 | Its tally of 184,445 was its highest ever and it is likely that the personal vote for John Hume , its leader , in Foyle , and the conversion of Eddie McGrady 's marginal in South Down to a 600-plus majority , will have been boosted by some Protestant crossover . |
| 6 | Installing an electronic publishing system can bring substantial benefits but it can equally bring headaches that would have been avoided by some simple preliminary investigations . |
| 7 | ‘ Well sir , we figured that the beer mats might have been stolen by some rival bar-owner . |