Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 A person who has the right to immediate possession of the land and enters in exercise of that right , is then deemed to have been in possession ever since the accrual of the right of entry .
32 Heart valves can be removed very simply from the body up to three days after death … you do not need to have been on a life support machine … even heart attack victims can be suitable donors .
33 The opportunity you really want to take is on the other side of that wall and it will remain there until you manage to puncture your own pomposity .
34 What needs to happen is for players to learn how to ruck and maul more efficiently .
35 If what he has to say is worth hearing , why is n't the interviewer recording what he says ?
36 What Eleanor Darcy has to say is of course monstrous , fascist .
37 And even when the other ship tried to follow is into Flicker , so that both of is were in sub-light together for a millisecond , Posi had only glimpsed it .
38 The ‘ enumerated articles ’ included most of the more important English imports from areas in the temperate zones and almost all the goods exported from the tropical and semi-tropical regions in which the colonies most committed to trade were to be found .
39 The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire .
40 Some wits even suggested that the answer to the labour shortage which the ‘ total war ’ measures were seeking to combat was to be found by closing down the Propaganda Ministry and combing out Party offices .
41 This does not apply where possession of land is claimed , title to land is in question or the plaintiff claims libel , slander , malicious prosecution , false imprisonment or fraud .
42 Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence .
43 Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status .
44 ‘ Titron does n't appear to have been in port for over two years .
45 This however would appear to have been in combat with Bf110s , rather than Bf109s .
46 By virtue of this , there does not appear to have been in Ireland any large-scale persecution of heretics .
47 She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble .
48 His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks .
49 In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet .
50 The said Steve , the Mountie went on , seemed to have been in bed asleep at the time of his murder , and the Ontario police were wanting to interview Angelica Standish as a suspect .
51 Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill .
52 Our starting point for analysing structure happens to have been with an exercise , the form of drama popularised by Brian Way , and yet little attempt has so far been made by him or by anyone else to show how these apparently slight adjustments within the structure of the exercise can seriously affect the outcome .
53 Some form of " co-habitation " with the FIS was said to have been under consideration — possibly with the FIS as a coalition partner in a government in which key ministries would remain in FLN hands , with Chadli serving out his term as President ( due to end in December 1993 ) .
54 Indeed , he is said to have been beside himself with rage and looking to pick a violent quarrel with anyone who happened along .
55 At the Smolyan mines , 67 men were said to have been on hunger strike below ground since Aug. 13 [ see p. 39014 for labour unrest ] .
56 It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof .
57 SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau
58 At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault .
59 Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value .
60 " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . "
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