Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these livings they were certainly granted by the influence of English churchmen and the king , eager to retain representatives at the Curia , but the majority seem to have been acquired through papal provision : the pope was remunerating his servants out of the English church 's endowments , much to the growing fury of English patrons and politicians . |
| 2 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 3 | The trick appears to have been performed once more by George Grayson , this space 's resident dog expert , who is on something of a canine roll at present . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State has argued today that at least part of the money saved has been spent on other benefits and he has implied that on balance , people are no worse off — a familiar argument . |
| 5 | ‘ The C. and A.G. shall satisfy himself that the money expended has been applied to the purpose or purposes for which the grants made by Parliament were intended to provide and that the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it . ’ |
| 6 | The rest of the money seems to have been used to finance a double life . |
| 7 | Since those cases were decided there have been many scientific advances and it would seem that chances of establishing whether or not there are causal relationships between the act alleged to be negligent and the damage alleged to have been suffered as a consequence are better now than formerly . |
| 8 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 9 | But in retreating so hastily from my life in England , the decision to leave had been facilitated by the sheer lack of knowledge about what lay in store for me . |
| 10 | A Brigade statement said : ‘ The decision to disband has been taken by the leadership and will prevent any members reforming under any other name . ’ |
| 11 | The decision to apply had been taken by the government in May 1991 . |
| 12 | The decision appears to have been prompted in part by an assumption that it would either discredit Heseltine by forcing him to back off from a challenge ( which was thought most likely ) or , if he did stand , give him insufficient time to mount an effective campaign . |
| 13 | Most of the experience described has been gained from the mouse but many of the techniques and applications are equally suitable for other mammals , including man . |
| 14 | It is thus apparent , as has been indicated elsewhere , that not all of the earthworks are contemporary with one another ; indeed , the basic outline of the settlement seems to have been determined by land divisions laid down several thousand years previously . |
| 15 | Thus the effective legitimate target range f the beamer appears to have been raised by anything up to about two feet depending on how tall your are . |
| 16 | It is also possible that with the decline in activity in Norfolk , other eastern counties were considered attractive for the next phase in development , perhaps because the ground in the west appeared to have been secured through Shearman and Miss Green . |
| 17 | The term appears to have been fixed on the Minister 's personal whim . |
| 18 | After 1776 the instrument seems to have been removed altogether . |
| 19 | John the Baptist appears to have been executed by Herod Antipas some time after A.D. 28 , but no later than A.D. 35 . |
| 20 | From it you can walk to Itxassou 's other half , which is clustered round the church , about a kilometre away and within sight of the defile known as the Pas de Roland , an opening in the rock said to have been made by the hoofs of this luckless paladin 's horse ( but more of Roland in the appropriate place , when we come to Roncevaux ) . |
| 21 | The Dog Tavern was a notorious Jacobite haunt , and the demonstration appears to have been staged by Jacobite agents as a way of testing popular sympathies . |
| 22 | It is almost as if the man assigned the task has been chosen by lot , except that the drawing seems to have been fixed . |
| 23 | ‘ How then should the judge approach a submission of ‘ no case ? ’ ( 1 ) If there is no evidence that the crime alleged has been committed by the defendant , there is no difficulty . |
| 24 | The 37-year-old driver of the car involved has been questioned by the police about the incident and allowed police bail . |
| 25 | The car seemed to have been driven directly at that cordon , where it had exploded . |
| 26 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 27 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
| 28 | On a range of issues from river pollution to waste incineration at sea , from airport expansion to noxious exhaust emissions , the opposition seems to have been led by the non-British north-west Europeans , with the Germans to the fore . |
| 29 | ‘ All solitude is selfish ’ , the poet recalls having been told ; and no one now |
| 30 | Wherever Josie had been intending to go , the errand appeared to have been forgotten . |