Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You may wish to ask yourself whether there really has to date been a desire to address the drug problem in sport with firm conviction . ’ |
| 2 | The Airline Industry has to date been slower than others in exploring the benefits to be achieved in using AI technology . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The practice of nurses working flexible hours , which is largely controlled by the needs of the nursing team , has to date been given little attention . |
| 5 | The general equilibrium analysis of tax incidence has to date been undertaken largely independently of the literature on macroeconomics . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money has to date been contributed by the private sector to city technology colleges . |
| 7 | Academic study of the members of the Conservative party at either national or local level has to date been almost entirely ignored . |
| 8 | There has to date been no detailed investigation of the pronunciation of black native speakers of LE : in fact there have been few recent studies of LE pronunciation . |
| 9 | That Bellow , this participant in Roth 's inner life , can also be said to be out there in the world as his friend , and perhaps his rival , is a fact which does not help one to decide whether or not to trust the reports of literary duality — what comes in has to have been out — but it is very much in the tradition . |
| 10 | [ Except that it was n't snowing , because this has to have been November . |
| 11 | For a genuine higher education to take place , research has to have been undertaken somewhere , upon which programmes of study will in part be based . |
| 12 | Curtis was staring at the bloodstained shirt , ‘ I suppose it has to have been a firearm , sir ? ’ |
| 13 | Every contact I 've ever had with Florian has to have been to do with sex — ’ |
| 14 | That has to have been explained to you on the phone . |
| 15 | It does sound to me was there has to have been given a reason as to why the claim was rejected . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whatever it is , it needs to have been thrashed out endlessly with the top leadership of the business and to be able to be expressed in a single , understandable , clear and unambiguous sentence . |
| 18 | Vittorio Mezzogiorno 's Arjuna looks to have been sculpted out of rock until his moment of Hamlet-like irreso-lution before the great battle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The the spell that er Forest had straight after the interval looks to have been weathered . |
| 21 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 22 | But he has failed to command a regular place during Graeme Souness 's reign as manager and the signing of Nigel Clough looks to have been the final straw for Ronny . |
| 23 | Pope John Paul 's outspoken words on behalf of a church which he deems to have been ‘ driven into the catacombs ’ reflect a worried assessment by the Secretariat of State , the Vatican 's Foreign Office , that Mr Gorbachev 's authority may come under increasing threat and that the Church should therefore exploit Soviet liberalisation for all it is worth . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) A document which bears to have been executed by the Funding Council in accordance with sub-paragraph ( 2 ) above shall , in relation to such execution , be a probative document if the subscription of the document bears to have been attested by at least one witness . |
| 25 | The reader can thus be aware that a writer may have written round what happens to have been offered . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 28 | The similarity of outlook which marked the views of Maxse , a man who Hutcheson shows to have been , temperamentally if not socially , a quintessential outsider , and Bridgeman , the quintessential insider , is significant . |
| 29 | Accordingly , in my judgment we have in this case a clear statement by the responsible minister stating the effect of the ambiguous words used in what became section 63 of the Act of 1976 which the Parliamentary history shows to have been the basis on which that section was enacted . |
| 30 | In the 1750s , seven thousand sailors from these two small towns were living from piracy , and an exceedingly well-organized affair it sounds to have been , with the Crown , as ever , coming in for its share . |