Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [prep] [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 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 3 | In fact , modern biblical scholars concur that the letter ascribed to Jude is of too late a date to have been written by any contemporary of Jesus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Jones , 55 , said : ‘ I am very surprised to have been selected for this award , but extremely pleased . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | This is likely to have been followed by another battle near the Forest of Dean , for Edmund had an alliance with some of the Welsh , but by now both sides were doubtless exhausted , and winter was approaching . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They appeared to have been collected without any method : Wordsworth , Mae West , Saint-Simon , geniuses , criminals , saints , nonentities . |
| 11 | His ideas on sovereignty and social organization seem to have been influenced by sociological positivism and by Duguit in particular . |
| 12 | Investment since 1979 also seems to have been influenced by historic designation as census tracts containing such areas saw more rehabilitation activity . |
| 13 | Developments in the reform of children 's services do not appear to have been influenced by this body of knowledge to the same extent as the reforms of ‘ adult services ’ . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Patients who joined the study between 1981 and 1985 tended to have been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid as it had become widely available at that time and was considered to be the oral bile acid treatment of choice for gall stone dissolution . |
| 17 | Similar pores have been observed also in the Z1 Carbonate of the Auk ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) and Claymore fields and in outcrops of Zechstein carbonates in the U.K. , where leaching is thought to have been caused by meteoric water during uplift and exposure ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 18 | Merchant Navy Minister Carlo Vizzini said on April 11 that an official inquiry would start immediately and that the accident appeared to have been caused by human error . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musical flaws . |
| 21 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musi cal flaws . |
| 22 | In the UK little work of any description seems to have been done on human behaviour in the aftermath of releases of hazardous substances , nor is much available on public attitudes to emergency planning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The military court which imposed the sentences , the most severe yet to have been imposed upon anti-Aquino coup participants , acquitted a further 20 men ; cases against a further 16 remained pending . |
| 25 | Civilization , like the city of Venice , seems to have been built on unprepossessing ground . |
| 26 | Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I do n't believe that would be the practice , and therefore I believe the executive committee as the trustees and custodians on our behalf , in this matter , should take the responsibility , and I would have preferred the trustees rather than the Council to have been stated at that point . |
| 29 | Walls seem to have been painted in flat colour washes even earlier . |
| 30 | The semi-finals were marred by a disputed majority points decision when Londoner Chris Henry , who looked a convincing winner , was adjudged to have been beaten by Welsh champion Richard Fenton . |