Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] to have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Calcutta the railway companies seem almost to have been overawed by the classical splendour of the Viceroy s palace and the great secretariat buildings dating from the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 2 | I had hoped to find the original bill for the chandelier in the Abercorn Papers , but a day 's search for them in the Belfast Record Office revealed nothing : in true British fashion , all feed and stapling bills were meticulously preserved and carefully tied in small bundles , but bills for plate and jewels seem not to have been preserved . |
| 3 | The jaw muscles turn out to have been placed to generate the most powerful bite possible , especially when Diatryma brought into play the powerful downwards hingeing action of the upper beak on the skull . |
| 4 | The significance of either of these factors varied from site to site ; at times cults appear largely to have been promoted by the Church hierarchy , or by a small group with a precise , often family , interest in the new saint — this seems to be the norm for the development of the cults of the aristocratic saints of the seventh century . |
| 5 | How well these grants reflect the amount of exchange activity in the landscape is not clear , since some grants seem never to have been taken up and others clearly did not persist . |
| 6 | The fact that most of the codes and standards incorporated in VDU safety clauses seem frequently to have been taken wholesale from various union guidance documents , raises questions as to how meaningful the discussions on VDUs have been . |