Example sentences of "to have been [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death directly by starvation in famines seems to have been rare in Britain , less so abroad ( Walter and Schofield 1989 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Who considers those persons to have been involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 5 | Watton was the RAF 's Central Signals Establishment and 192 is thought to have been involved in radio calibration duties . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The prospect of the political chaos which would have followed had Mr Amato lost was certain to have been uppermost in MPs ' minds . |
| 9 | In three cases technical difficulties were encountered at the time of surgery and the procedure was acknowledged to have been inadequate in terms of gastric devascularisation . |
| 10 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One variant known to have been common in Ayrshire in the 18th century was : — |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |