Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the studies that do exist have been small scale or have had some other issue , such as integration , as their key focus , referring to welfare assistance either in passing or as a subsidiary concern . |
| 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 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 4 | The girl does seem to have been closer to her aunt than to her grandmother who died relatively soon , in her sixties . |
| 5 | The gap does seem to have been wider in the past ( 26 hours per week in 1961 , for example ) but these time budgets confirm common sense and findings from the Women and Employment Survey that women do more unpaid work than men . |