Example sentences of "[verb] to have be [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed .
2 They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students .
3 One shuttle tanker , Polikon , was reported to have been hit for the fourth time and written off as a ‘ constructive total loss ’ ( CTL ) .
4 It is reported to have been used for surveillance of the United Unionist Action Council strike headquarters in May 1977 together with an infinity bug in a newlyinstalled telephone in a committee room .
5 Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) .
6 These results , however , are somewhat misleading because in most cases the wells do not appear to have been drilled for Zechstein objectives and were either off-structure or lacking in significant closure at Zechstein level .
7 As Smith commented , it is incomprehensible that Moorcroft does not appear to have been considered for appointment as the first Professor of the London College .
8 Unfortunately the only categories included in the criteria for grants which might be exploited by the arts do not appear to have been designed for this purpose .
9 He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time .
10 Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century .
11 He seemed to have been driving for ever .
12 A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold .
13 Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin .
14 Oracle7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix are said to have been tuned for the 1000 .
15 Amis 's Stanley and the Women drew blood , for a time , from feminist opinion , and is said to have been blocked for a period from entry into the United States ; and Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses ( 1988 ) forced its author , a Muslim-born Indian , into hiding in 1989 for its alleged blasphemy against the Prophet .
16 For the uncommitted public , however , there were two effects of startling importance : sexual frankness took an immense leap forward and the image of women could be said to have been changed for ever .
17 This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed .
18 Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children .
19 Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) .
20 However , the attack , which was thought to have been planned for Kiechle 's 60th birthday party on March 3 in Bavaria , had not taken place and a further letter from the RAF stated that it had been called off due to a " mistake in co-ordination " .
21 There was some indication that the congress , originally thought to have been scheduled for May , had been postponed until June .
22 Published in 1693 by R. Smith ( 'under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill' ) with the title The Christian Soldier 's Penny Bible , Shewing from the Holy Scriptures the Soldier ‘ s Duty and Encouragement … fit for the Soldier ‘ s or Seaman ‘ s Pocket , it is thought to have been produced for our troops in Flanders .
23 Do you know that you are thought to have been imprisoned for debt ? ’
24 At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) .
25 Curiously , most of the rules seem to have been conceived for print media : there are few pieces of TV and radio ‘ folklore ’ of this kind .
26 To some extent the East Anglian lands seem to have been exploited for the benefit of the northern retinue , and the same attitude can be seen in the use of some of the de Vere lands to endow Gloucester 's new college at Middleham .
27 To some extent the East Anglian lands seem to have been exploited for the benefit of the northern retinue , and the same attitude can be seen in the use of some of the de Vere lands to endow Gloucester 's new college at Middleham .
28 In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions .
29 They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest .
30 Many researchers ' accounts bear witness to these skills , but they are only mentioned in passing and seem to have been taken for granted .
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