Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 32 | It is clear that all around the world , Rottweilers seem to have been discovered all at the same time . |
| 33 | ‘ It will probably turn out to have been discovered twenty times already . |
| 34 | The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century . |
| 35 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 36 | According to reports the scheme is being allowed by Buckingham Palace and actively supported by Prince Michael of Kent , said to have been appointed unpaid chairman of the firm 's advisory board . |
| 37 | In 1945 some of the boxes in which the treasures of the conventual church of St Servatius had been stored were discovered to have been broken open , and twelve of the precious objects were missing . |
| 38 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 39 | The United States carrier Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) ceased operations on Dec. 4 after facing heavy financial losses ; an estimated 10,000 of the airline 's employees were reported to have been made redundant . |
| 40 | At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule . |
| 41 | If the family has decided on cremation , the undertaker will need a further form , so this decision needs to have been made prior to the visit to the Registrar . |
| 42 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 43 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 44 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 45 | The aid agency Care , the main distribution agency for all UN relief operations in the north , was reported on Nov. 18 to have been granted official permission to distribute food in southern and central parts of the country . |
| 46 | But the bust-up between model Rebecca and gym boss Damon is thought to have been kept secret from former Test ace Freddie — just like their marriage . |
| 47 | Flicking through the register , she then noticed that most of the Wednesdays appeared to have been kept free , and as she pondered this strange fact Silas returned to the office . |
| 48 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 49 | , Claude ( 1877–1959 ) , scholar , claimed to have been born 26 May 1877 ( his birth certificate counter-claimed 24 May ) in Handsworth , Staffordshire , the eldest son of Oswald Jenkins , cashier and later land agent , and his wife Sarah , daughter of William Palmer . |
| 50 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 51 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 52 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 53 | Once the envelope is known to have been slit open , an explanation from the recipient may be required . |
| 54 | The sections of the booklet which seem most commonly to have been used concerned : the pastoral system ; school ‘ climate ’ and discipline ; pupil assessment and record keeping ; and the section on evaluating a lesson . |
| 55 | Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation . |
| 56 | The fact that most of the codes and standards incorporated in VDU safety clauses seem frequently to have been taken wholesale from various union guidance documents , raises questions as to how meaningful the discussions on VDUs have been . |
| 57 | Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries . |
| 58 | One solution adopted by Iran appears to have been to send crude off to Aden or other refining centres abroad like Singapore and Italy for processing into products to be sent back to Iran and discharged at storage facilities available at terminals on Gulf islands like Lavan . |
| 59 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 60 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |