Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 2 | This Bill was gazetted only two months after the closure of one of Tanzania 's few private political newspapers — the last paper which could be considered to have been in open opposition to the Government . |
| 3 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |
| 4 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 5 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |
| 6 | His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice . |
| 7 | Although there is certainly no clear-cut distinction , there seem to have been in recent years two rather separate major usages of this term ( and related terms such as ‘ chief information officer ’ ; , ‘ information system ’ , ‘ information centre ’ , ‘ end user ’ , and so on ) in the literature . |
| 8 | If you can be as … affected as you seem to have been by answering journalists ' questions , perhaps I 'd be wiser to wait for publication of results , like everyone else . |
| 9 | ‘ Streamline has been in regular use at the Chambre de Commerce since the early 1980's . |
| 10 | They thought in terms of a picture of the universe and of the origin of humankind ( one which we now know to have been in large part mistaken ) , and they interpreted their awareness of God in conjunction with this picture . |
| 11 | after leading Sunderland to the FA Cup final last May.But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 12 | But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 13 | Whig Jacobitism , however , appears to have been of minimal significance in Scotland . |
| 14 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |
| 15 | However , on several other occasions the Kuwaiti authorities have denied holding individuals who were subsequently found to have been in incommunicado detention . |
| 16 | During the inter-war years the trend seems to have been towards increasing privatisation of the respectable working class family . |
| 17 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 18 | The claim seems to have been of recent origin , and it is not quite clear on what it was based apart from the general principle of primacy . |
| 19 | Increasing EEC involvement in defence and foreign policy seems to have been of particular concern to the Danes . |
| 20 | It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals . |
| 21 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 22 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
| 23 | For it must be remembered that Divitiacus does not seem to have been in perfect command either of Greek or of Latin . |
| 24 | The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars . |
| 25 | Although I am anxious to avoid entering into aesthetic theory or acting theory to any large extent it has to be conceded that the topic I have been tackling here , the logical relationship between emotion occurring and emotion described has been of central interest to aestheticians and acting theorists alike . |
| 26 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 27 | Some of the greatest lessons to be learnt have been in human terms . |