Example sentences of "to have [be] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 2 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
| 3 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 4 | Despite her questionable health , Leapor seems not to have been troubled by the physical demands of her work . |
| 5 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 6 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 7 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 8 | This latter finding implies that the hypocholesterolaemia is unlikely to have been caused by the metabolic effect of an occult tumour . |
| 9 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 10 | The first published tensile tests seem to have been done by the French philosopher and musician Marin Mersenne ( 1588–1648 ) who was interested in the strength of the wires used in musical instruments . |
| 11 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 12 | Military commanders were reluctant to lose the momentum of their campaign against the rebels , who they judged to have been weakened by the Indian authorities ' clamp-down on their organization in Tamil Nadu state [ see also p. 37964 ] . |
| 13 | On a range of issues from river pollution to waste incineration at sea , from airport expansion to noxious exhaust emissions , the opposition seems to have been led by the non-British north-west Europeans , with the Germans to the fore . |
| 14 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 15 | The bullets had followed each other too quickly from different angles for them to have been fired by the same person . |
| 16 | Paulinus of Pella provides an unusual example of a member of the senatorial aristocracy known to have been bankrupted by the barbarian invasions . |
| 17 | The brick wall faced by virtually all suppliers attempting to win modernisation contracts for city telephone exchanges in the larger cities of the Russian Federation seems to have been breached by the Slovenian firm IskraTEL . |
| 18 | Tam Dalyell 's thoughts on the need for lead in petrol ( Forum , 31 March , p 908 ) seem to have been shaped by the glossy publications of a lead alkyl manufacturer . |
| 19 | These had been thought to have been indicated by the British prime minister in a speech at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 7 September 1992 . |
| 20 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 21 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 22 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 23 | The announcement lifts the threat of a boycott of the event from all of the British entrants , which was to have been considered by the British Wheelchair Racing Association today . |
| 24 | The fires are believed to have been triggered by the annual practice among peasant farmers of burning off land prior to the wet season . |
| 25 | d ) Changing conceptions of professionalism — finally , it should not pass without comment that the traditional concept of professionalism on which successive generations of solicitors have been reared was not uncommonly perceived to have been undermined by the dominant political and economic ideology of the last decade , with its emphasis on consumerism and market forces . |
| 26 | Lemuria , normally located in the Indian Ocean , seems first to have been proposed by the English geologist Philip Lutley Sclater ( 1829–1913 ) . |
| 27 | MacMillan 's The Invitation was only one to have been staged by the Royal Ballet companies . |
| 28 | The meeting , believed to have been suggested by the Soviet Union , is the first such encounter since 1971 . |
| 29 | The attacks coincided with an official visit by President Pierre Buyoya to France , and were widely reported to have been instigated by the exiled Palipehutu movement ( Parti pour la libération du peuple Hutu ) . |
| 30 | Gustavo Adolfo Stroessner , the son of the exiled former president Alfredo Stroessner , was reported to have been arrested by the Brazilian police on Aug. 9 in response to an extradition request by the Paraguayan government . |