Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Europe the only flows of any consequence occur on small volcanic islands in the Mediterranean , the most famous of all being those on the island of Lipari , which are thought to have been erupted about 1,400 years ago . |
| 2 | The earliest French works now accepted as fabliaux date from the last decade of the twelfth century and the latest seem to have been composed about 150 years later , somewhere around 1340 . |
| 3 | It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler . |
| 4 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 5 | Bhutto also accused the government of " fabricating " an encounter on May 8-9 with Al Zulfiqar , a terrorist organization alleged by the government to be a militant wing of the PPP , but claimed by Bhutto to have been disbanded almost 10 years previously , in which seven members were reportedly killed , in order to justify its crackdown against the PPP . |
| 6 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 7 | The fort is believed to have been constructed about four centuries before Christ by an Iron Age Celtic society . |
| 8 | ‘ So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled and 80 out of 200 NHS beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable . |
| 9 | So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled , 80 out of the 200 national health service beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable and damage totalling at least £250,000 has been caused . |
| 10 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |