Example sentences of "to have been [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 2 | Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising . |
| 3 | The conductor and pianist Myung Whun Chung , director of the Opéra-Bastille , writes : We have all been fortunate to have been touched by the spirit of Olivier Messiaen through his music and I , personally , also by his human qualities . |
| 4 | I was alone on a mountain with an unpredictable and completely un-Yorkshire person who appeared to have been touched by the sun . |
| 5 | However , it now seems to have been accepted by the RICS that the overseas experience of limited liability , together with that of UK land surveyors , livestock auctioneers and other companies , indicates that in practice the ethical problem may be overstated . |
| 6 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 7 | When Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud made a grant to Waltham an oral declaration seems to have been followed by the donor girding his sword round the image on a crucifix . |
| 8 | The £750,000 survey — in which 20,000 adults will be asked detailed questions about the frequency and nature of their sexual activities — was to have been funded by the Department of Health , the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 9 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
| 10 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 11 | And of course , being a composer , I think it would be very hard not to have been influenced by The Beatles . ’ |
| 12 | In the Felixstowe Justices case the court seems to have been influenced by the fact that the applicant was a journalist with a serious purpose . |
| 13 | The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ultimately , 10 ( 6% ) patients from within the whole group had further surgery the nature of which seemed to have been influenced by the results of the test . |
| 16 | Despite her questionable health , Leapor seems not to have been troubled by the physical demands of her work . |
| 17 | The courts do not appear to have been troubled by the notion of an issue being determined by an expert other than an individual . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Slimly-built Gilbey resigned from Holbein in February last year when the firm was reported to have been hit by the recession with large debts . |
| 20 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 21 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 22 | In the space of two days — Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 — at least 600 people were reliably estimated to have been killed by the army and police and in succeeding days more killings and arrests were reported as troops raided premises , principally in Port-au Prince , in search of troops loyal to Aristide . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These problems have been compounded in the 1980s by the government 's encouragement of the sale of council houses and by the rise in house prices in the owner-occupied sector , so that the acceleration in the urban-rural shift in the mid 1980s is not likely to have been caused by the lower paid . |
| 26 | The man , suffering from a leg injury believed to have been caused by the fall , was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 27 | The explosion , the worst in Turkish mining history , appeared to have been caused by the ignition of methane gas , which in 20 seconds had reached dangerous levels inside the mine , apparently foiling a sophisticated alarm system . |
| 28 | This latter finding implies that the hypocholesterolaemia is unlikely to have been caused by the metabolic effect of an occult tumour . |
| 29 | Some of the decline in compliance , says the report , is likely to have been caused by the cooler , wetter conditions of 1991 , resulting in a lower rate of " die-off " of bacteria , and an increase in the frequency in operation of storm overflows , which generally do not have any treatment to reduce bacterial numbers . |
| 30 | This contrasted sharply with the parents ' belief that the child 's poor behaviour at home was a consequence of the latter perceiving himself to have been rejected by the family because he had been sent to a boarding school . |