Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion of Wulfhere 's intervention in Surrey is likely to have been the death of King Ecgberht , which appears to have been followed by an interregnum or at least a contested succession . |
| 2 | Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device . |
| 3 | Fergie 's ill temper was thought to have been caused by an argument on the telephone with Texan pal Johnny Bryan . |
| 4 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 5 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 6 | The riots appear to have been precipitated by an apparently casual incident when a Meskhetian angrily tipped over a table of strawberries being sold by an Uzbek girl . |
| 7 | Although yet greater extremes of poverty might be expected to exist in bigger towns , an outstanding feature of Chichester was the clearly higher level of wages effective there , with many artificers assessed at 40s. a year , though these were sure to have been balanced by an anonymous mass of recorded paupers . |
| 8 | The anticipated strong showing for candidates affiliated to the nationalist Moldavian Popular Front appeared to have been matched by an equally strong showing for the rival Yedinstvo ( " Unity " ) movement , drawing its support largely from the Russian and Ukrainian minority communities . |
| 9 | Here , as elsewhere ( Bittner 1965 ) , we seem to have been misled by an essentialist definitional procedure which concentrates on the differences between phenomena and neglects those other matters which they have in common . |
| 10 | For example , the giant trace Climactichnites from the Upper Cambrian of North America is believed to have been constructed by an otherwise unknown Metazoan of novel appearance . |
| 11 | ‘ I picked up my teeth from the pitch and wanted to play on , but a dental consultant from the crowd advised me to have them put back as soon as possible ’ — JAMES CHANDLER ( Bedford wing ) after the Pilkington Cup home defeat by Harlequins when he was alleged to have been punched by an England flanker . |
| 12 | The first of these was the Greek tanker Filikon L , reported to have been attacked by an Iraqi aircraft . |
| 13 | In the centre of his chest , where there was a heart motif on his tunic , there was a ragged hole disclosing his real heart , which looked to have been squeezed by an iron fist . |
| 14 | Mr Clinton 's only crime so far is to have been accused by an ageing cabaret artiste of infidelity . |
| 15 | At the central government level at least , the traditional preoccupation with loyalist unity and the constitutional issue seemed to have been superseded by an active concern with setting up ‘ development ’ programmes . |