Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cadwallon has gathered a victorious host and appears to have been encamped on Môn ( Anglesey ) with a fleet nearby .
2 Though there is an element of ambiguity about the whereabouts of Wilfrid 's see , it is most likely that Ealhfrith intended him to be bishop of York , the significance of which is unlikely to have been lost on Wilfrid and his royal patron if Pope Gregory 's original plan to establish York as an archbishopric was known to them .
3 Khafji was reported to have been retaken on Jan. 30 , and allied military briefings emphasised that this should be regarded principally as a victory for Saudi units in the coalition .
4 Nine soldiers and 15 guerrillas of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FARC ) and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) ( both factions of the National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Board ( CNG ) — see p. 34803 ) were reported to have been killed on Nov. 10 in two separate attacks staged by an estimated 400 guerrillas against the towns of Tazara and Cacares in Antioquia province .
5 For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) .
6 An agreement with Colombia to exchange information on drug trafficking was reported to have been reached on March 2 , 1990 .
7 Justice Minister Abdehamid Mahi-Bahi was reported to have been dismissed on Nov. 14 by the President of the High Committee of State , Ali Kafi , and replaced by Mohamed Teguia , President of the Supreme Court .
8 The initial growth of CMHTs seems to have been based on assumptions that traditional professional practices could be transformed by organising existing staff ( or existing kinds of professional workers ) in new ways .
9 , endowed by the goldsmith to James VI and I. This magnificent Tudor building , supposed to have been based on designs of Inigo Jones , was begun in 1628 .
10 A Parti de la troisième république ( PTR — Third Republic Party ) , with Francisco Javier Iturriaga Aste as president and Leonardo Rivera Reyes as secretary-general was reported to have been formed on Feb. 2 , 1990 .
11 Not being in possession of a verbatim record of the submission by the County , I have prepared twelve linked submissions in this matter , document G W Fourteen B , which seek to rebut with justification the point believed to have been made on behalf of the County and District Councils .
12 Eight FMI members who had been arrested in June 1990 were among 108 prisoners who on April 13 were reported to have been freed on April 1 .
13 At least some of these criticisms seem to have been taken on board in the recent proposals for reform of UK competition policy described in section II above .
14 The Irish Supreme Court overruled this , allowing her to leave the country [ see p. 38780 ; the abortion was later reported to have been performed on March 3 ] .
15 The government announced a five-year reorganization programme of the armed forces on Dec. 7 ( originally to have been publicized on Dec. 3 ) .
16 Following Ratsiraka 's statement , three of the detained opposition leaders , including Zafy , were reported to have been released on July 29 .
17 Two hundred Iraqi prisoners-of-war were said by Iran to have been released on Oct. 29 ; according to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) more than 20,000 Iraqis were still held in Iran .
18 Another leading Medellín member , José Antonio Ocampo Obando , was reported to have been released on Jan. 16 , 1990 , because of insufficient evidence .
19 A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 .
20 Abdullahi Mahmoud Mohamed , the secretary of the Somali Red Crescent Society , was reported to have been murdered on Nov. 16 .
21 An associate of Odinga , Luke Obok , was reported to have been arrested on Feb. 23 and charged with possessing seditious literature .
22 A second opposition figure , Victorin Hameni Bieuleu , chairman of the Union of Democratic Forces of Cameroon ( UFDC ) , was reported to have been arrested on Nov. 3 .
23 A French resident was reported to have been arrested on Nov. 17 , no reason being made public .
24 At least 250 more people were reported to have been arrested on Nov. 14 and 15 in the coastal city of Alexandria .
25 A COOKSTOWN man appeared at the local magistrates court yesterday charged with handling £4,500 worth of cigarettes and cigars knowing them to have been stolen on April 27 last year .
26 Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims .
27 The invasion , which was only admitted by the government at the beginning of January , was reported to have been launched on Dec. 22 to take advantage of the international attention focused on the area as the competitors in the Paris to Cape Town motor rally passed through .
28 Unless the contrary intention appears , property bought with money belonging to the firm is deemed to have been bought on account of the firm .
29 s21 Unless the contrary intention appears , property bought with money belonging to the firm is deemed to have been bought on account of the firm .
30 In general , the cast had backed premiere ( what else ? ) but were contented to have been interviewed on television at some length .
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