Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 32 | Nonsense , because almost without exception the candidates themselves will have been selected by that supposedly indifferent party machine . |
| 33 | A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) . |
| 34 | The variation in size would have been enormous as the existing parish councils would have been joined by such cities as Sheffield as ‘ local councils ’ . |
| 35 | In fact that familiarity can sometimes be deceptive ; behind the restored classical vocabulary lurk more of the earlier aristocratic assumptions than would have been conceded by most nineteenth-century historians ; so if anthropological interpretations become less useful , there is still danger in pushing narrowly juridical ones . |
| 36 | The duchess being bride to the heir presumptive , with the princes gone , any issue of hers would have been regarded by many as rightful sovereign of the realm . |
| 37 | I have received no request for a statement , but the hon. Gentleman 's point of order will have been heard by those Ministers with responsibility for such matters . |
| 38 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 39 | Wertheimer 's judgment would have been echoed by most of MacDonald 's followers . |
| 40 | must have been threaded by some child . |
| 41 | He says it could be an accident , but it could also have been caused by another person . |
| 42 | ‘ It could have been caused by some sort of disaster or accident . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 45 | This suggests that the violence might have been caused by these high hormone levels , not conditioning . |
| 46 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 47 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |
| 48 | The sulphites had been negligently left in the underwear by the defendants during the manufacturing process , although they could not have been detected by any reasonable examination . |
| 49 | Maybe , however , someone 's memory will have been nudged by that photo flashed on television screens six weeks ago . |
| 50 | He may already have been linked by this date with Earl Richard 's son , Gilbert , eighth Earl of Gloucester [ q.v . ] . |
| 51 | Example 2:5 Declaration as to party structures It is hereby agreed that : ( 1 ) one half in thickness of every internal wall floor and ceiling separating the demised property from any adjoining property is included in this demise ( 2 ) each such structure is a party structure ( 3 ) the tenant shall maintain each of them as such and shall be liable to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing or maintaining any such structure which shall have been incurred by any adjoining occupier or tenant or by the landlord such proportion to be determined ( in default of agreement ) by an arbitrator appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| 52 | It could have been sharpened by any straight blade in the kingdom . ’ |
| 53 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |
| 54 | Mr Major said at question time : ‘ Decent families everywhere will have been sickened by that cold-blooded attack on innocent people going about peaceful business on a spring Saturday lunchtime . ’ |
| 55 | There are no objections to this application , though an alternative to the flat roof would have been preferred by some of the councillors . |
| 56 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 57 | But the Wills Act 1968 provides that if a will is already duly executed with two other qualified witnesses , the attestation of any person who would have been caught by this rule must be disregarded . |
| 58 | Whether the extinctions among neritic organisms were the consequence of regression of epicontinental seas ( Newell , 1967 ) or the widespread bottom-water anoxia characteristic of the initial phase of subsequent transgression ( Hallam , 1981c ) a significant reduction of habitat area and hence deterioration of the environment would have been produced by either phenomenon . |
| 59 | They hide in situations of complexity , in which effects may have been produced by several different causes acting together . |
| 60 | ( Teachers used to living in subject blinkers are sometimes startled to find that films chosen as " starters " for topic work in their subject may already have been shown by another teacher in a different context . |