Example sentences of "[verb] to have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nevertheless great advances appear to have been made without such theory … |
| 2 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 3 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
| 4 | Hopes of getting an inquiry appear to have been dashed in 1979 when Britain offered its £100 million and gave the Sri-Lankan government the confidence to sweep aside any objections . |
| 5 | The analyses support the idea that the relocation of farms occurred quite frequently , with a considerable horizon of shifting settlement taking place in the 100 years around AD 700 , for nearly all early Anglo-Saxon settlements appear to have been abandoned during that period . |
| 6 | In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act . |
| 7 | At a time when nursing and health care is subject to much change , both professionally and politically determined , it is a pity that these elections appear to have been organised with little concern for the democratic process . |
| 8 | The only occasion upon which they appear to have been considered by this court was in Reg. v. McNiff [ 1986 ] Crim.L.R. 57 , in respect of which we have been helpfully provided with a transcript of the judgment . |
| 9 | Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case . |
| 10 | Crocker expresses ‘ confusion ’ at the Thai conclusion that their positive samples could have been natural since a wide swath of the district was reported to have been sprayed with yellow rain . |
| 11 | On Nov. 5 , a third government was reported to have been formed by Zaïrean exiles in Brussels , headed by Antoine Bubulu Koi Bulonda , chairman of the National Unity Party . |
| 12 | Despite Mahdi 's calls for unity and negotiation , his appointment as President was reported to have been rejected by other rebel groups , notably the SNM , as well as by factions within the USC . |
| 13 | The proposals , supported by the lead banks , are reported to have been sent to all 82 financial institutions for detailed consideration . |
| 14 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 15 | Clashes also continued within Turkey itself during this period , and some 40 people were reported to have been killed in separate incidents , the worst of these occurring on Aug. 16 when 14 Kurds and five troops and police died as demonstrations broke out to mark the eighth anniversary of the separatist rebellions of 1983 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] . |
| 16 | Amid allegations in early June that rebels loyal to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) led by Charles Taylor were obstructing the deployment of peacekeeping troops of the Economic Community of West Africa States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , six Senegalese ECOMOG soldiers were reported to have been killed in NPFL-held territory . |
| 17 | On May 14 Wolfgang Berghofer , the former reformist mayor of Dresden [ see pp. 37827 ; 37170 ] , was reported to have been charged with electoral fraud in the May 1989 municipal elections . |
| 18 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | Monsengwo 's house was reported to have been attacked by armed men on Nov. 12 . |
| 20 | Professor McDonald was reported to have been associated with major Canadian investigations since 1959 into the effects of asbestos on health . |
| 21 | Since October 1982 more than 800 protesters are reported to have been arrested on false charges and many have been tortured , according to Survival International . |
| 22 | By mid-December more than 5,000 religious extremists , mainly Hindus , were reported to have been arrested under sweeping preventive detention laws ; a further 3,000 Hindu militants were arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Dec. 25 . |
| 23 | Some 200 people in possession of pamphlets calling for a multiparty political system were reported to have been arrested in recent weeks around the country ; the human rights organization Amnesty International said that many people working in companies with facsimile transmission machines capable of receiving opposition literature printed abroad were among those detained . |
| 24 | " Tipped , " Timothy Gedge said , the word appearing to have been chosen at random . |
| 25 | Followers of Leavis thought themselves superior in sensibility to the debased majority who were deemed to have been corrupted by democratic industrial society . |
| 26 | 6.6 Insofar as this Agreement is less restrictive or onerous on the recipient Party in respect of the disclosure or use of any particular information than any undertaking given by the recipient Party prior to the execution of this Agreement in respect of the same information , such information shall to such extent be deemed to have been superseded by this Agreement . |
| 27 | ‘ The pair pretended to have been robbed of precious stones , by strangers , at gunpoint . ’ |
| 28 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 29 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 30 | By joining seams carefully with mattress stitch the join will not show and the work will appear to have been made in one piece . |