Example sentences of "to have [been] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
| 2 | The acceptance of a bottom line , something that seems to have been singularly missing in the British negotiating stance , will provide its own discipline . |
| 3 | That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place . |
| 4 | Ever since Prost confirmed his intention to leave McLaren , he claims to have been increasingly isolated within the team . |
| 5 | We are in the middle of a recession which seems to have been wholly engineered by the Conservative Government through their raising of interest rates which are still far too high . |
| 6 | Mr Winick , of Canning Town , east London , was found to have been unfairly dismissed by the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers in Stepney , east London . |
| 7 | will largely be seen after the New Year 's Day holiday so essentially you could still that the first regional survey to have been largely compiled of the results drawn er er from the beginning of this year and , and the , and the , and you know you see some reference in the press release to estimates based o on our survey of manufacturing employment er er for the regions , those figures are consistent with our national figures on , on the trend in manufacturing employment and our short term forecast which as a matter of fact was publ published at the end of last month so results . |
| 8 | The German explanation that the risky Scandinavian operation had been made necessary by the planned British landing and breach of neutrality had , therefore , the ring of plausibility and seems to have been largely accepted by the German population . |
| 9 | Pauper apprenticeship , like child labour in general , was not a particular novelty of the factory system , although its use in coal mining seems to have developed only in the nineteenth century and to have been largely localised to the Black Country . |
| 10 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 11 | The McKinsey-GE model does , however , seem inconsistent with the BCG matrix in two respects , and these seem to have been largely overlooked in the literature . |
| 12 | The charge of anti-semitism , and implied neo-fascism , was particularly serious just four years after the war , and Eliot seems to have been thoroughly discomfited by the affair . |
| 13 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 14 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) Where any such property is disposed of , the Funding Council shall pay to the Secretary of State such portion of the proceeds or value of the consideration for the disposal , after deduction of such expenses as appear to the Secretary of State to have been reasonably incurred in the disposal , as the Secretary of State may , after consultation with the Funding Council , determine . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , the trade unions appear to have been weakly organised in the District . |
| 17 | The blueprint was reported to have been well received by the President , although criticized by many senior military officers . |
| 18 | Firstly , it seems to have been well established at the time that Darrel was having some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister , a woman several years younger but only slightly less wayward than her brother . |
| 19 | To those who framed the US National Wilderness Preservation System , a wilderness was an area which ‘ appears to have been primarily affected by the forces of nature … where man himself is a visitor who does not remain . ’ |
| 20 | The earthworks are clearly visible , and the site can be seen to have been partly destroyed by the modern roads . |
| 21 | Several villages were reported to have been completely destroyed by the quake and its aftershocks , and the towns of Sachkhere , Ambrolauri , Oni and Dzhava were badly damaged . |
| 22 | He was believed to have been badly affected by the death of his wife last April . |
| 23 | With the prospect of renewed factional discord , however , and with the strength of his faction in the new Assembly reduced from 40 to 22 seats , Kim 's ambition to succeed Roh as President appeared to have been badly shaken by the election . |
| 24 | ‘ a motor vehicle , namely a … to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 applied and ’ Section 47 applies to all motor vehicles first used more than three years before the time at which it is proved to have been actually used on the road for the purpose of the present offence . |
| 25 | These soldiers appeared to have been hurriedly buried by the retreating Germans , they had probably died of their wounds . |
| 26 | ‘ This analysis appears to me to have been authoritatively adopted by the House of Lords in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 . |
| 27 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 28 | Marx , like his contemporaries , seems to have been much struck by the description of a huge empire run without the aid of literacy but held together by a mixture of ruthless military power and religion . |
| 29 | The strapping Scotland full back 's own cheerful confidence has always been infectious while Ian McGeechan was known to have been much struck by the esprit de corps he had engendered in a Scotland XV who but recently had undergone some drastic changes of personnel . |
| 30 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |