Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This puts in perspective the Department of Economic Development 's approach to community economic development , which has to date been one of employing outside consultants without sufficient consideration for the need of local input . |
| 2 | The Airline Industry has to date been slower than others in exploring the benefits to be achieved in using AI technology . |
| 3 | The move was a major handicap in recruiting journalists — who , after all the fuss , were mostly hired from the south , and not from the local redundant talent which was said to have been available . |
| 4 | These four cases are among a great number where ministers have in the past fixed a tariff period on material that was not available to the prisoner , and which in my opinion ought to have been available to him . |
| 5 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 6 | Convergent evolution is likely to have been rampant . |
| 7 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 8 | In mid-Buckinghamshire the average of 6d. or 7d. looks to have been inclusive of house and outbuildings for , according to an Aylesbury rental dated 1532 , land without buildings commanded not more than 4d. , examples being 3 acres for 1s. , three roods for 3d. , and 55 acres for £1. 2s. 10d . |
| 9 | All these groups seem to have been nomadic or partly so . |
| 10 | erm , I think it 's in the future care , I rather think that perhaps the future care ought to have been five hundred and nineteen , not five hundred and seventeen |
| 11 | His priorities proved to have been right . |
| 12 | Zuwaya claimed that in the past they had recognized no internal sovereign , and in this matter they seem to have been right . |
| 13 | This one has Ionic columns and a balustrade , and the speaker 's gallery seems to have been right . |
| 14 | Freud seems to have been right in seeing that , at least in Christianity and its associated arts , both in works positively related to it and those antagonistic to it , there is to be found the theme of God the Father , and God the Son , who is sacrificed and eaten in Holy Communion . |
| 15 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 16 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 17 | Once more , however , they provided only for small numbers and their success even in establishing this few in permanent work or independence appears to have been small . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , an arthritic patient reported that the joint problems had cleared up but that she was becoming increasingly anxious and irritable , then the physician would be worried and would be certain that the wrong treatment had been given , even though , superficially , it would seem to have been effective . |
| 19 | However unsatisfactory the ancient idea of belligerent reprisals may be , the threat of reprisals does appear to have been effective in this matter ( Kalshoven , 1971 , p. 348 ) . |
| 20 | If it turns out to have been effective — and it may not — it will have helped to return one member . |
| 21 | Here , at least , the policies of special restraint seem to have been effective . |
| 22 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 23 | He was said to have been depressed after sitting his first exam … and apparently left a suicide note in his room . |
| 24 | Mr Morley is understood to have been depressed since the death of his wife from cancer nearly two years ago . |
| 25 | At Phaistos , Gournia and Myrtos Pyrgos , these intermediate buildings seem to have been absent : instead , a temple or equivalent large building stood on a hill summit , dominating a town quarter of small houses . |
| 26 | In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources . |
| 27 | The clouds looming over the Lloyd 's market seem to have been silver-lined , having boosted the demand for Sherwood 's systems . |
| 28 | It appears from documents to have been ruinous and abandoned by 1437 . |
| 29 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 30 | Killing people simply in order to satisfy hunger is hardly one of humanity s more endearing habits ( and anyway seems always to have been rare ) , but the consumption of dead heroes can be seen as a mark of respect , in that the eaters may hope to inherit some of the admired qualities of the deceased . |