Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't actually pleased with Zak as I did n't want to risk being identified as an actor , but that , I supposed , would be a great deal better than the truth . |
| 2 | A BOAT skipper who took £100,000 in bookings for a ferry service which did not exist has been jailed for 15 months . |
| 3 | What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies . |
| 4 | The stacks of plates were put beside them , and the bowls of coleslaw , potato salad and other food that did not need cooking were set in place . |
| 5 | And if two actresses can survive having been cast in the same part and still go on to be friends , they can survive anything . |
| 6 | When that need arose there is clear enough indication of the availability of collective response from a continuing association which does not always need to have been preserved as a formal organisation . |
| 7 | Stock Exchange requirements and all relevant SSAPs will also need to have been complied with . |
| 8 | Its awe-inspiring interior space was to an extent destroyed by the exhibition display demonstrating how the urge to discover and explore had been expressed throughout the ages . |
| 9 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 10 | Seton did not appear to resent being replaced in the governorship ; indeed he might even have been somewhat relieved , for it was a grievous responsibility in present circumstances and he had borne it sufficiently long . |
| 11 | The video will try to help them understand the misery they cause and what they should do to avoid being tempted down that road . |
| 12 | A vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up , Black Hornet would appear to have been developed on the Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit and tweaked for commercial release . |
| 13 | In this case we find a culture which has not evolved beyond the initial , hunter-gatherer stage and which , furthermore , does not appear to have been contaminated by contact with cultures which had done so — at least , until the coming of white men . |
| 14 | The corollary is seen where alien plants , contrary to expectation , appear to oust native plants in species-rich environments , where every ‘ niche ’ would appear to have been filled by species evolving more or less in situ to fit those environmental factors . |
| 15 | It would appear to have been adopted in psychoanalysis because of its air of scientific detachment and objectivity , its freedom from the objectionable religious overtones of such terms as ‘ sin ’ and ‘ evil ’ . |
| 16 | If that is , as I believe it to be , the correct approach , then it does not appear to have been adopted by Thorpe J. in the present case . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The Parish Council are very disturbed by the decisions that would appear to have been made about the sale and subsequent development of this small area of open land and more especially by the tactics used by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee and the apparent collusion with the Planning Department to keep the Parish Council , and therefore the local people , in the dark about what is going on . |
| 19 | By joining seams carefully with mattress stitch the join will not show and the work will appear to have been made in one piece . |
| 20 | Developments in the reform of children 's services do not appear to have been influenced by this body of knowledge to the same extent as the reforms of ‘ adult services ’ . |
| 21 | The courts do not appear to have been troubled by the notion of an issue being determined by an expert other than an individual . |
| 22 | The rate of fire decay behind the flame front depends to a large extent on fire loading , the physical state and thermal capacity of the fuel and does not appear to have been studied in the same depth . |
| 23 | Apparently cystic abnormalities within the biliary ducts of several of the present patients do not appear to have been recognised in other contexts : it is suggested that these too are a constituent of the radiology of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 24 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 25 | The police have also been investigating why more than a thousand other pieces of information did not appear to have been investigated by West Mercia Police -including the evidence of this nurse . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Private wealth certainly does n't appear to have been translated into personal greed where Roddick is concerned . |
| 28 | This term would appear to have been introduced into Community parlance in the European Parliament 's Draft Treaty on European Union in 1984 , and is already familiar in the context of the 1989 Social Charter . |
| 29 | There were passing references to section 8 in the printed cases submitted to the House of Lords by the parties , but the section does not appear to have been mentioned in the course of oral argument . |
| 30 | Whilst blood would appear to have been associated with circumcision from the earliest times ( witness the account of Zipporah in Exodus 4.24–6 ) this character of the rite , as I hope shortly to show , assumed new dimensions and significances with the experience of the exile and the developments which I have just outlined . |