Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a change in the approach of local government to compulsory competitive tendering , but it appears to have been lost on the Labour party . |
| 2 | An English Requiem is centred around one of the finest works to have been written in the past ten years . |
| 3 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 4 | When they finally appear , they turn out — in what for this play amounts to a considerable comic twist — to have been fitted with the wrong plug . |
| 5 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 6 | Thus the data for this e.p.s.p. are very unlikely to have been generated from the smooth distribution , but are more typical of samples drawn from the quantal simple binomial generator . |
| 7 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 8 | The earliest record of Prague is supposed to have been documented in the 9th century . |
| 9 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
| 10 | That principle now seems to have been conceded despite the stiff resistance of Bloomberg 's biggest opponent — the Nihon Keizai Shimbun , Japan 's main financial newspaper . |
| 11 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 12 | Despite her questionable health , Leapor seems not to have been troubled by the physical demands of her work . |
| 13 | The rate of fire decay behind the flame front depends to a large extent on fire loading , the physical state and thermal capacity of the fuel and does not appear to have been studied in the same depth . |
| 14 | One shuttle tanker , Polikon , was reported to have been hit for the fourth time and written off as a ‘ constructive total loss ’ ( CTL ) . |
| 15 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 16 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 17 | Seven million dolphins are estimated to have been killed in the eastern tropical area of the Pacific since the 1950s . |
| 18 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 19 | This latter finding implies that the hypocholesterolaemia is unlikely to have been caused by the metabolic effect of an occult tumour . |
| 20 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 21 | The first published tensile tests seem to have been done by the French philosopher and musician Marin Mersenne ( 1588–1648 ) who was interested in the strength of the wires used in musical instruments . |
| 22 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 23 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 24 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 25 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 26 | Excavation has also uncovered the impressive rock-cut ditch of the Norman motte and bailey castle , believed to have been built in the 1080s . |
| 27 | The present building was originally a corn mill , and is thought to have been built around the mid-18th century . |
| 28 | Fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were more likely than fathers of control children to have been employed by the nuclear industry , but the excess was not significant . |
| 29 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 30 | Military commanders were reluctant to lose the momentum of their campaign against the rebels , who they judged to have been weakened by the Indian authorities ' clamp-down on their organization in Tamil Nadu state [ see also p. 37964 ] . |