Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 2 | Cynewulf 's annexation of land bordering on the Thames in Berkshire in the early years of Offa 's reign certainly appears to have been followed up by further action in the original Gewissian territory around Dorchester . |
| 3 | MARK HATELEY breathed life into Rangers ' European Cup challenge last night , just as their hopes seemed to have been killed off by Marseille 's foreign legion . |
| 4 | The concept seems to have been killed off by Sutcliffe v Thackrah ( cited at 14.6.4 ) . |
| 5 | Iraq pushes its forces into Kuwait and swiftly gains control of the country , claiming to have been invited in by Kuwaiti revolutionaries . |
| 6 | The same batsman seemed to have been run out by bowler Lewis when 30 . |
| 7 | Then without warning a green flare exploded , which had to have been shot off by one of the fishermen . |
| 8 | It is the propeller salvaged from a Royal Navy Coastal Airship which is believed to have been shot down by a U-Boat in July 1918 whilst operating from Longside Airship Station . |
| 9 | Lieutenant Stapleton suddenly realized with a shock of fear that he was lucky not to have been shot down by one of these tattered lunatics . |
| 10 | She ought to have been struck down by a thunderbolt , Ronni thought later . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the fact that part of de Gaulle 's prediction seems , more than two decades later , to have been borne out by events is only a partial defence of his policies — unless one subscribes to the view of his critics that he was more interested in being vindicated by posterity than in achieving results in his lifetime . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line . |
| 15 | The question , therefore , is nakedly raised by this appeal , whether your Lordships are now prepared , not only to overrule , as contrary to law , the doctrine stated by Sir Edward Coke to have been laid down by all the judges of the Common Pleas in Pinnel 's Case ( 1602 ) 5 Co.Rep. 117a , in 1602 , and repeated in his note to Littleton , 344 , Co.Litt. 212b , but to treat a prospective agreement , not under seal , for satisfaction of a debt by a series of payments on account to a total amount less than the whole debt , as binding in law , provided these payments are regularly made ; the case not being one of a composition with a common debtor , agreed to , inter se , by several creditors … |
| 16 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 17 | The DUC condemned the sabotage , which was widely believed to have been carried out by militants from outside the local area . |
| 18 | Security forces are believed to have been involved in numerous killings this year in Silvan , Diyarbakir province , thought previously to have been carried out by Hizbullah . |
| 19 | Atrocities were also reported to have been carried out by two militias accompanying the Syrian troops , pro-Syrian Phalangists led by Elie Hobeika , and the Syrian National Socialist Party . |
| 20 | A National Commission of Human Rights was established by Salinas in June 1990 in response to widespread internal and foreign concern at the routine use of torture by federal judicial police and at the escalating number of illegal arrests , murders , rapes and looting claimed to have been carried out by them in the course of a US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 21 | Much of the insurgent activity was believed to have been carried out by the United Lao National Liberation Front . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 25 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 26 | Soon after hundreds of prisoners began surrendering , many thought to have been driven out by smoke . |
| 27 | I know that the members and friends that visited the church premises on our recent open day were extremely grateful to have been shown around by Ronnie and his team . |