Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | THE Princess of Wales is understood to have been objecting to two claims . |
| 4 | This appears to have been composed of two workshops ( possibly small affairs ) where the products of each occur in both Verulamium and Colchester . |
| 5 | A trade agreement was due to have been concluded within two years of Spanish accession but it was not until Feb. 19 , 1988 , that the Andorran government appointed a negotiating team . |
| 6 | The large Ionic Temple of Artemis at Sardis seems to have been built in three phases . |
| 7 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 8 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 9 | The overall trade deficit in 1990 , according to preliminary figures , was US$4,730 million — the first overall deficit to have been recorded for five years . |
| 10 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 11 | By joining seams carefully with mattress stitch the join will not show and the work will appear to have been made in one piece . |
| 12 | The missing funds are believed to have been deposited by four clients . |
| 13 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nor do they know why for many years , almost to this day , footprints were to be found in a field near to the earthworks of the castle where a famous duel was said to have been fought between two brothers during the Civil War and where no seed would grow . |
| 16 | Although Marseilles is known to have been shared between two kings for much of this time , details of the division are hard to establish . |
| 17 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 18 | A Crown Court jury saw an extract from the film said to have been watched by two defendants a fortnight before the alleged murder attempt . |
| 19 | The Stasi headquarters in Berlin were reoccupied on Sept. 4 by New Forum supporters demanding that individuals be given access to their files ( which were said to have been held on 4,000,000 East Germans and 2,000,000 West Germans ) . |
| 20 | As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island . |
| 21 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 22 | Between these triangles lie the four arms of the saltire , all of which seem to have been divided into three zones : two lozenges enclosing pentagonal devices with two heart-shaped petals , and a pentagonal area which contains a pelta-urn . |
| 23 | The kingdom is said to have been divided among three kings , Hun , Beonna and Aethelberht , of whom Aethelberht was still reigning in 794 ( ASC A , s.a. 792 ) ( which would give him a reign of forty-five years ) . |
| 24 | The trespassers were Fawcett and partners , and appeared to have been financed by one Crackenthorpe . |