Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] been [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally importantly , those which were remembered appear to have been unusual in more than the fact that they were busier than other situations , risk appears to have had a quite separate effect . |
| 2 | Overall , operation " Iron Fist " , which had begun in September [ see p. 37698 ] , was considered to have been successful in reducing violence . |
| 3 | The degree of professional autonomy would appear to have been higher in the United States than in Britain , and the imbalance in favour of specialist medicine over general practice or family medicine greater still . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Swiftly a ‘ marriage bar ’ was introduced , though its application does not appear to have been universal in the civil service until 1894 when government typists ( hitherto an ‘ unestablished ’ all-female grade ) obtained permanent , pensionable ‘ established ’ status by agreeing to a rule requiring automatic resignation on marriage . |
| 6 | However , after a number of years of operation , the APU does not appear to have been conspicuous in its success : most of the background measures are of little use , and there are difficulties in relevant measures . |
| 7 | He seemed to have been stuck in this shabby , overheated room for days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first 16 defendants are said to have been involved in the fraud or in receiving and laundering the money involved . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although the trial judge in Jones was said to have been wrong in saying that the police need not have informed her of the presence of a solicitor called by another person , the admission of a statement made by Jones in the absence of a solicitor was upheld . |
| 12 | This landlord was clearly profiting from involvement in the market in basic foodstuffs : a market which stray references in contemporary chronicles and letters show to have been lively in the Seine basin during the ninth century . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | The difference might have been closer but transfers of otherwise non-transferable votes would have had to have been massive in favour of Donnelly in order to ensure his election . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1980 an editorial shake-up occurred following the detention of several dissidents alleged to have been involved in a plot . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Kohl 's eventual support for Berlin was thought to have been influential in swaying several Bundestag members . |
| 21 | Watton was the RAF 's Central Signals Establishment and 192 is thought to have been involved in radio calibration duties . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Lobbying by groups such as Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature are thought to have been instrumental in the change . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At least two coaches seem to have been involved in a collision in the Leopoldstadt , near the canal . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Minoans seem to have been self-sufficient in terms of basic needs , which must have put them in a position of trading strength , but they relied on imports for supplies of exotic raw materials for the manufacture of luxury goods . |
| 29 | ‘ There were quite a few interesting pieces , notably miniatures from children 's sets , which seem to have been popular in Holland in those earlier periods . ’ |
| 30 | The earliest deposits of Eurodollars seem to have been those in the Moscow Narodny Bank in London and that of another USSR owned bank in Paris . |