Example sentences of "to have be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students .
3 None of those associated with Cripps during the tenure of his wardenship can fail to have been touched by this outstanding man .
4 They are sufficiently common to have been studied in several ancient civilisations , and are named after Diophantus of Alexandria who wrote a 13-volume treatise on arithmetic in about 250 AD .
5 Therefore the aircraft is most likely to have been hit by heavy machine-gun fire , which , unless it hit a vital spot such as fuel tanks or engines , would not cause the immediate destruction of the aircraft , but could kill or disable the pilot .
6 I am aware of the extensive experimental research which has focused on ion forms involving Ca++ Na+ etc2 , but what seems to have been missed in this prior research is the appreciation that water forms its own ion form in that it dissociates into hydroxyl and hydronium ions as listed on the table .
7 Trends in infections likely to have been transmitted by unprotected sexual intercourse between men were analysed for indications of changes in sexual behaviour .
8 Although his authority was undoubtedly derived from the Roman office which he held , the area over which he exercised control seems not to have been determined by any Roman administrative division , but rather by the presence of the Visigoths to the west and by other smaller groups , including Aegidius and his followers , to the north .
9 ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’
10 While Mustakimzade is probably right that Fahreddin Acemi taught at Murad II 's Darulhadis , as will be shown , his construction of events-that Fahreddin Acemi taught there and then became Mufti on the death of Molla Fenari-is most unlikely since the Darulhadis of Murad II seems not to have been completed until 23 Sha'ban 838/24 March 1435 .
11 The term ‘ carrier ’ seems to have been coined in Anglo-American legal discourse largely to aid in the assessment of liability for damage to cargo .
12 These wadis are too long and , in many places , form too integrated a pattern for them to have been formed under present climatic conditions .
13 John Spearman , Classic FM chief executive , said : ‘ We are very pleased to have been presented with this prestigious award just six months after going on air .
14 Surprisingly , the other avenue available — use of the County Topic Loan Service — does not seem to have been explored in any systematic way , even though parties of children were taken to the divisional library on at least one occasion .
15 The proposals , supported by the lead banks , are reported to have been sent to all 82 financial institutions for detailed consideration .
16 The Beatles ( not EMI ) chose to lavish time and money on the making of the Sgt. Pepper LP , while the Beach Boys ' 1966 single ‘ Good Vibrations ’ was reputed to have been made in four different studios over six months and to have cost £5,000 .
17 At least L150,000,000 ( US$123,000 ) was estimated to have been laundered through some 50 non-lire bank accounts in Lugano , in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
18 Followers of Leavis thought themselves superior in sensibility to the debased majority who were deemed to have been corrupted by democratic industrial society .
19 He was lucky to have been born in this particular tribe .
20 There is , of course , a long history of research into uses of relevance information in In systems , going back to the 1960s , but it only appears to have been used in one online catalogue : CITE , at the National Library of Medicine .
21 ( The column , incidentally , seems summarily to have been removed from that crusty contest 's judiciary by a meat trade equivalent of the Lord Chancellor . )
22 Professor McDonald was reported to have been associated with major Canadian investigations since 1959 into the effects of asbestos on health .
23 By mid-December more than 5,000 religious extremists , mainly Hindus , were reported to have been arrested under sweeping preventive detention laws ; a further 3,000 Hindu militants were arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Dec. 25 .
24 How many craters greater than 1 km diameter are likely to have been produced on 10 6 square kilometres on the lunar surface between 2000 Ma and 1000 Ma ago ?
25 Furthermore , such migrated oil is likely to have been displaced by subsequent migrating gas .
26 From its peak combat strength of around 20,000 at the end of the Marcos era in 1985 , the guerrillas were thought to have been reduced to some 13,000 fighters by mid-1992 .
27 The earlier Count and Add software is considered by many to be one of the best first maths programs for youngsters , and much care appears to have be spent on this new version .
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