Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] have be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act .
2 No after action reports seem to have been filed for any of these early raids , which is not surprising considering the impromptu nature of their planning and execution .
3 A POLICE cash crisis arising from the £650,000 cost of the Warrington bombings appears to have been resolved .
4 A POLICE cash crisis caused by the £650,000 cost of investigating the Warrington bombings seems to have been resolved .
5 Bankruptcy proceedings appear to have been taken against the plaintiffs by B.M.T. Receiving orders were made against them in the county court but , on appeal , these orders were , it is said , rescinded on terms which are not stated but which are said to have been fulfilled .
6 At most sites , strip buildings appear to have been constructed as independent entities , separated from their neighbours by either alleys or narrow lanes .
7 However , the vehement opposition to prison building by penal reform groups appears to have been vindicated in the light of a worsening of overcrowding and the further deterioration of regimes .
8 A statistical procedure , step-by-step regression analysis , correlated particular coping behaviours reported to have been used in response to this event and ten symptoms of depression assessed at the second interview .
9 The Committee of Senior Officials ( CSO ) of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Prague on Nov. 5-6 , made public a specially commissioned report recommending the creation of an international tribunal to try war crimes alleged to have been committed in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina .
10 He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers .
11 Rigorous steps to avoid selection biases seem to have been taken in only two of the four studies of immature babies — namely , those of Hofmeyr et al .
12 The areas beyond these terminal reaves contain burial and religious monuments which in some cases must be earlier ; so perhaps some respect of older features is implied , an aspect which can be seen elsewhere where barrows and barrow cemeteries seem to have been avoided rather than ignored when the later fields were laid out .
13 During this period there were 671 rights issues known to have been underwritten of which only 35 resulted in a loss for the underwriters .
14 The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other .
15 No comparable breeding experiments appear to have been carried out with N. lapillus , which takes much longer to reach maturity .
16 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 .
17 NOTES 1 The area sizes listed have been derived from preferred dimensions and rounded to the nearest m2 for convenience .
18 This was decided in 1979 by EETPU v Times Newspapers , which held that the capacity of trade unions to sue had been removed by s2(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 .
19 Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items .
20 Only the sediments of the carbonate mud wedges appear to have been affected by late leaching because of their proximity to organic-rich basin plain deposits .
21 The trouble makers seem to have been rooted out .
22 All the costs associated with training primary teachers to participate have been taken into account . ’
23 Opposition groups continued to call for Diouf 's resignation and the holding of fresh elections [ for 1988 legislative elections , which government opponents claimed had been rigged , see pp. 35812-13 ] .
24 A conservative estimate is that power must have grown by about 30bhp ; in any case , this figure is likely to be overtaken soon when the four-valve cylinder heads known to have been developed by sister company Cosworth are installed in the car .
25 One of the major changes is that the trading environment in which U K companies operate has been improved by lower interest rates and the lower value of the pound which is also helpful to the translation of our overseas profits and to our exports .
26 A better name would seem to be Cadomian , after the Roman name for Caen in Normandy , where all the Precambrian sediments seem to have been tectonised before the beginning of the early Palaeozoic .
27 Sheltered shore whelks seem to have been selected more to maintain a balance with K , the carrying capacity of the environment .
28 A joint French-Greek research team 's claims to have developed technology which eliminates 90 per cent of particulates emitted by diesel bus engines appear to have been borne out in tests on 110 buses in Athens .
29 Not all of the intercrystalline porosity that has been generated by late leaching is necessarily preserved because the host dolomites appear to have been compacted as leaching progressed , reducing the final porosity of the rocks ( Fig. 22b ; Clark 1980a ) .
30 His survey of 1,000 children found that 18.3 per cent of secondary and 17.1 per cent of middle school pupils claimed to have been bullied .
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