Example sentences of "to have [been] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 2 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 3 | MADONNA is the latest high profile performer to have been cited by US presidential candidate Bill Clinton in his quest to court young voters . |
| 4 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 5 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 8 | These examples clearly demonstrate that the scenes existed but they were hardly likely to have been seen by stone masons or potters to copy . |
| 9 | In one test , for example , children are asked to identify a traditional English beer tankard — an object unlikely ever to have been seen by a child from a Muslim background in which alcohol is proscribed . |
| 10 | ( ‘ If the Subject appears to have been lost by accident continue in the direction the Subject was proceeding . ’ ) |
| 11 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 12 | The following extract from the Preface of the Catalogus appears to have been written by one who had sound knowledge of the Chelsea Garden — almost certainly Philip Miller . |
| 13 | The Cambridge Theatre Company 's production of The Revengers Tragedy — a work believed by some to have been written by Thomas Middleton , others by Cyril Tourneur — opened this week at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford where it runs until tomorrow ( Saturday ) before transferring on its tour to the Theatre Royal , Winchester from Tuesday to Saturday next week . |
| 14 | This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings . |
| 15 | In fact , modern biblical scholars concur that the letter ascribed to Jude is of too late a date to have been written by any contemporary of Jesus . |
| 16 | The copious footnotes to the recipes in this book were believed by his contemporaries to have been written by Sir Walter Scott . |
| 17 | These papers were a series of articles published in 1787 and 1788 to persuade the citizens of New York to ratify the U.S. Constitution ; most of the papers were known to have been written by Hamilton or by Madison , but the authorship of twelve of them was disputed . |
| 18 | The Book of Cupid , his one surviving work , is a piece of sufficient merit to have been thought until the nineteenth century to have been written by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | In their second petition , which appears to have been written by Chidley , they justified their political activity on the basis of ‘ our creation in the image of God , and of an interest in Christ equal unto men , as also of a proportionable share in the freedoms of this commonwealth . ’ |
| 20 | Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising . |
| 21 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 22 | This equating of non-natural user with unreasonable risk in negligence seems to have been recognised by MacKenna J. in Mason v. Levy Auto parts of England Ltd . |
| 23 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | None of those associated with Cripps during the tenure of his wardenship can fail to have been touched by this outstanding man . |
| 26 | I was alone on a mountain with an unpredictable and completely un-Yorkshire person who appeared to have been touched by the sun . |
| 27 | There in the King 's sitting room the clerk noted ‘ a harpsichord by Handell in a walnut tree case ’ Clearly there are two scribal errors here the spelling of the composer 's name and the omission of a verb : these make it possible to argue ( if a little perversely ) that this was just another of those many instruments reputed to have been played by Handel . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This appears to have been accepted by Egypt at the time of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company . |
| 30 | The Sutton pupils were very relieved to have been accepted by their new partners . |