Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud seems to have been right in seeing that , at least in Christianity and its associated arts , both in works positively related to it and those antagonistic to it , there is to be found the theme of God the Father , and God the Son , who is sacrificed and eaten in Holy Communion . |
| 2 | However unsatisfactory the ancient idea of belligerent reprisals may be , the threat of reprisals does appear to have been effective in this matter ( Kalshoven , 1971 , p. 348 ) . |
| 3 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 4 | Death directly by starvation in famines seems to have been rare in Britain , less so abroad ( Walter and Schofield 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the juxtaposition of particular historical , political events with economic forces often seems to have been decisive in stimulating defensive reactions by employers . |
| 6 | Daniel Field wrote in 1976 that " The fear of peasant unrest … can not be shown to have been decisive in the decision to emancipate " , but Larisa Zakharova took him to task eight years later for failing to explain the emancipation in terms of " the fear of a peasant rising or the moods and struggle of the peasantry " . |
| 7 | Arrow Air itself appears to have been involved in the Iran-Contra air supply operation . |
| 8 | About 10,000 people were believed to have been involved in the clashes , in which police , army units and factory militias armed with water-cannon and truncheons clashed with crowds hurling cobblestones and shouting ‘ We want to get out . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Xoliswa Falati was reported last week to have been involved in an eviction dispute with Mrs Mandela , wife of the African National Congress leader , and to have telephoned a newspaper seeking help , before being driven off in a car with several men . |
| 10 | At least two coaches seem to have been involved in a collision in the Leopoldstadt , near the canal . |
| 11 | It could even be said that the predator in the assemblage is the least likely one to have been involved in its accumulation . |
| 12 | ‘ Who considers those persons to have been involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws ? |
| 13 | They were rejected in Rochdale , and even in Nottingham , where cases of sexual abuse were upheld , and nine parents were found to have been involved in elaborate and organised abuse , there was no evidence that they did this as part of any satanic rituals or worship . |
| 14 | BOURNEMOUTH midfield player Shaun Brooks , who was alleged to have been involved in a fight with team manager Tony Pulis three weeks ago , is set to join Third Division Stockport in £30,000 deal . |
| 15 | In 1980 an editorial shake-up occurred following the detention of several dissidents alleged to have been involved in a plot . |
| 16 | The England and British Lions lock is alleged to have been involved in the incident in the match between his side , Preston Grasshoppers , and Stoke which left Steve Maskery with a bad head injury . |
| 17 | Security forces are believed to have been involved in numerous killings this year in Silvan , Diyarbakir province , thought previously to have been carried out by Hizbullah . |
| 18 | Watton was the RAF 's Central Signals Establishment and 192 is thought to have been involved in radio calibration duties . |
| 19 | But , first , they have to understand why such an instruction is given , even when it appears to be against their interests , and secondly they have to have been involved in the decision and to understand and accept the consequences of such a strategic direction . |
| 20 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 21 | But certainly the family and descendants of Judas of Galilee seem to have been involved in many of the more ambitious , more co-ordinated , more professional Zealot enterprises . |
| 22 | On the contrary , they would seem to have been involved in precisely the kind of political and military activity from which Jesus , according to later tradition , is dissociated . |
| 23 | A third public interest immunity certificate of the same date issued by the Secretary of State for Transport , relating to particular details of the explosive device thought to have been involved in the disaster , has now been withdrawn . |
| 24 | The first 16 defendants are said to have been involved in the fraud or in receiving and laundering the money involved . |
| 25 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 26 | The Tanat Valley Railway was at one time likely to have been involved in the grandiose proposal of 1845 concerning the West Midlands , Shrewsbury and Coast of Wales Railway Company . |
| 27 | Barco , although widely rumoured to have been involved in the drafting of the open letter , stated on Jan. 19 that the war against the cartels would continue in order to " assure the final success of the government 's policy " . |
| 28 | The chairman-designate , Uwe Kuntze , of a West German company alleged to have been involved in the manufacture of a chemical weapons plant in Rabta , Libya , admitted that the firm , Imhausen-Chemie , had appeared " not to have respected regulations ' during the affair but protested that the company had not acted " intentionally or maliciously " . |
| 29 | Those arrested included ( i ) Lt.-Col. Rodolfo Calzado , alleged to have been involved in the August 1987 coup attempt [ see pp. 35709-11 ] , who was arrested on Dec. 31 ; ( ii ) Lt.-Col. Billy Bibit , arrested by military intelligence on Jan. 17 , in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] ; and ( iii ) Lt. Vincente Tomas and Lt. Emil Ong , alleged to have planned a series of " destabilizing " actions to coincide with the Gulf crisis . |
| 30 | The statement said that younger Nahda members appeared to have been involved in the February incident " with the agreement of some of the movement 's leadership " , and that Nahda 's membership and activities would therefore be " frozen … pending the decisions which we may take in the near future " . |