Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 2 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 3 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
| 4 | ‘ The medals represent the overall effort of the entire UN peace-keeping force in Bosnia , but nevertheless I 'm deeply honoured to have been recognised in this way , I 'm just one of the fortunate ones . ’ |
| 5 | The murders by the drug cartels of two federal judges , Héctor Jiménez Rodriguez and Mariela Espinoza Arango , in Medellín on Oct. 17 and Nov. 1 , 1989 , respectively , and that of court summoner Guillermo Mena Lozano on Nov. 1 in Cali provoked a 13-day strike beginning on Nov. 2 of judges and court workers which paralysed the judicial system nationwide ( 350 judicial employees and 50 judges were estimated to have been killed in drug-related violence since 1980 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case . |
| 8 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 9 | Walls seem to have been painted in flat colour washes even earlier . |
| 10 | Fluid flow turbulence , in contrast , is far too pervasive ever to have been regarded in this way . |
| 11 | The old grey wood , though still dampish , looked as adequate for its purpose as its fellows still forming the boathouse floor and did n't seem to have been weakened in any way . |
| 12 | It 's thought the body is that of a man , but it 's not believed to have been mutilated in any way . |
| 13 | Our room appeared not to have been inhabited in living memory . |
| 14 | And this is at a time , of course , when we have other doors opening to us , which we shall need match funding , objective rural Dent , and er , er for the for the for the budget to be , it to have been cut in this way , is is is is very serious . |
| 15 | The debate appears to have been conducted in some ignorance but , as with much else in this area , a high degree of polemical certitude . |
| 16 | By joining seams carefully with mattress stitch the join will not show and the work will appear to have been made in one piece . |
| 17 | The initial interest of political researchers into the question of what to do with the regions came about , it must be said , not out of concern for neglected political interests in the periphery ( what Tarrow refers to as ‘ regionalism as peripheral defence ’ ) but because of a trend thought to have been observed in modern politics which seemed to go to the heart of the functioning of modern political systems . |
| 18 | It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier . |
| 19 | I can still remember the intense excitement of ‘ listening in ’ to pre-war Nationals on Friday afternoons that , many years later , seem always to have been bathed in bright spring sunshine . |
| 20 | They seemed annoyed to have been woken in this manner , and Stephen demanded to know what the problem was . |
| 21 | The injunction to make a small cross on the table from five breadcrumbs as a sign of devotion links him with a custom known to have been practised in monastic life , linking the daily bread of physical survival with the bread of life broken at the Passion . |
| 22 | The Sale of Goods Act 1979 , only the second such Act to have been passed in this country , replaced the original Sale of Goods Act 1893 . |
| 23 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 24 | Dorigo had a great game , I thought , but all too often seemed to have been left in sole command of the entire left side of the pitch — every time he went forward alone , large gaps appeared behind him , and the gaps were frequently filled by the ball and Sunderland players . |
| 25 | Not all muftis , of course , were successful when at odds with the Kadi : the aforementioned Molla Nasuh , while muderris/mufti of Aleppo , appears to have been held in some contempt by the kadi of Aleppo , Molla Shams al-Din Ahmad b . |
| 26 | As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island . |
| 27 | Rape is only held to have been committed in English law where the sexual intercourse is ‘ unlawful ’ , and it is generally assumed that the function of that term is to remove non-consensual intercourse between a man and his wife from the ambit of rape . |
| 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 | Unfortunately , their record appears to have been wrapped in thick cloth while being records ; it is muffled as anything . |