Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.

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1 Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession .
2 The Marxist-Leninist interpretation of 1917 , moreover , seems to Soviet historians to have been borne out by the whole sweep of the history of the USSR .
3 The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations .
4 Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line .
5 Much of the insurgent activity was believed to have been carried out by the United Lao National Liberation Front .
6 Independent events are those which are most unlikely to have been brought about by the behaviour of the respondent , such as a husband 's car accident which happened while the woman was at home .
7 I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option .
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