Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | There had been speculation that soldiers alleged to have been involved in the Tchin-Tabaradene massacre of perhaps hundreds of Tuareg dissidents in May 1990 [ see pp. 37703 ; 37811-12 ] , now fearing justice , might launch a pre-emptive mutiny . |
| 32 | Army , police and customs personnel were known to have been involved in making the country a major trans-shipment point for Colombian drug cartels targeting European markets . |
| 33 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
| 34 | Even Wat Tyler , the most famous of these , does not seem to have been involved in the earliest disturbances in Kent , as he is not mentioned in indictments dealing with disorder in Canterbury on 10 and 11 June , when the leader was John Hales of Malling . |
| 35 | By the late fourth century , in fact , the Saxons were said to have been involved in raids which had previously been ascribed to the Franks . |
| 36 | She is not known to have been involved in any way . |
| 37 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 38 | It does n't require a great bite of imagination to see that the Germans for example would have been extremely reluctant to have been involved in a four nation project with a nuclear capability available as part of it . |
| 39 | Police scoured the area around South Park and Feethams football ground yesterday searching for youths thought to have been involved in a break-in at a house in Polam Lane , Darlington . |
| 40 | The man is believed to have been involved in a series of robberies in the north of England over recent months . |
| 41 | This ability to live off poor vegetation is likely to have been crucial in the evolution of the mountain goat . |
| 42 | As Chief Secretary of the Treasury from November 1990 he is said to have been crucial in ensuring a record settlement for the Arts Council for 1992/93 . |
| 43 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 44 | The House of Lords held that for the directors to have been negligent in taking this course they would have had to have been ‘ cognisant of circumstances of such a character , so plain , so manifest , and so simple of appreciation , that no men with any ordinary degree of prudence , acting on their own behalf ’ would have entered into the transaction . |
| 45 | Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans . |
| 46 | The defendants were held to have been negligent in selling the child the petrol but the child was not contributorily negligent . |
| 47 | None of this alters the fact that it is possible to use these adjectives with a tense value distinctively different from that of the preceding verb ; see ( 51 ) and the contrast in ( 52 ) : ( 51 ) we all know Cerrutty to have been fortunate ( 52 ) ( a ) in the test my men showed themselves alert ( b ) in the test my men showed themselves to have been alert In ( 52 ) , ( a ) would naturally be suitable when the men respond promptly during the test , and ( b ) when , for instance , they had been alert in paying attention to instructions given at some time before the test . |
| 48 | Equity seems to have been prominent in your career very early on . |
| 49 | Nguyen Ai Quoc does not seem to have been prominent in these discussions although he was included in a group photograph with Roy , Tan Malaka , and other Asian delegates including three from Japan . |
| 50 | The foundations of the later temples largely obscure the plans of their predecessors but , from the patchy remains that have been investigated , the older temples seem to have been similar in style , scale and layout to the later temples , although they were perhaps slightly less complicated . |
| 51 | And it was this concern to avoid amy sectarian connotations which seems to have been uppermost in the minds of the organisers . |
| 52 | The prospect of the political chaos which would have followed had Mr Amato lost was certain to have been uppermost in MPs ' minds . |
| 53 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |
| 54 | In three cases technical difficulties were encountered at the time of surgery and the procedure was acknowledged to have been inadequate in terms of gastric devascularisation . |
| 55 | It is assumed that homologous structures are there as a consequence of evolution from a common ancestor , so homologous structures common to all mammals would be presumed to have been present in our common ancestor . |
| 56 | Such logic does not seem to have been present in the court 's decision in R v. |
| 57 | Overall , operation " Iron Fist " , which had begun in September [ see p. 37698 ] , was considered to have been successful in reducing violence . |
| 58 | And looking round the hall tonight , I think I would be inclined to say that this occasion seems to have been successful in doing that . |
| 59 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 60 | Moreover , the decorative features of the temple ( carvings of palmtrees , capitals like lilies , capitals festooned with network , pomegranates , and open flowers ) are all prominent in the repertory of St Polyeuktos , although they do not seem to have been current in contemporary Byzantine sculpture . |