Example sentences of "to have been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However unsatisfactory the ancient idea of belligerent reprisals may be , the threat of reprisals does appear to have been effective in this matter ( Kalshoven , 1971 , p. 348 ) . |
| 2 | Now sexism is so fundamental an evil that it becomes very difficult for anyone who has grasped this to envisage that God could be said to have been involved with human history . |
| 3 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
| 4 | Security forces are believed to have been involved in numerous killings this year in Silvan , Diyarbakir province , thought previously to have been carried out by Hizbullah . |
| 5 | She is not known to have been involved in any way . |
| 6 | Eliot , who was putting ‘ Tartar horsemen ’ in his poetry in 1924 , seems to have been impressed by this passage . |
| 7 | The conviction for the diversion and misuse of public funds of Gen. Mustapha Belloucif , a former chief of staff said to have been close to former President Chadli Benjedid , was interpreted as a sign that the new authorities wished to prove themselves capable of attacking corruption , even in the military . |
| 8 | Nguyen Ai Quoc does not seem to have been prominent in these discussions although he was included in a group photograph with Roy , Tan Malaka , and other Asian delegates including three from Japan . |
| 9 | In making his proposal Gore cited new evidence made public by the Financial Times and by ABC News Nightline , which quoted an Iranian arms dealer , Jamshid Hashemi , who claimed to have been present at two meetings between the late William Casey , the Reagan campaign chairman , and members of the Iranian government , held in Madrid in late July and mid-August 1980 . |
| 10 | Editor , — The working party set up to make recommendations on a national standard of entry into general practice seems to have been unaware of European Community directive 86/457/EEC . |
| 11 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 12 | Mr Chapman was prosecuted under s 37 of the 1974 Act , which states that where an offence under any of the relevant statutory provisions committed by a corporate body is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager , secretary , or similar officer , or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he , as well as the corporate body , shall be guilty of that offence . |
| 13 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 14 | In some cases this appears to have been due to privileged access to knowledge not yet available to those lower down the hierarchy , as in cases where plans were in preparation for the closure , merging or reorganisation of schools being proposed . |
| 15 | The idea bears some analogy to the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community which brought these industries under an international authority to defuse the conflict of interest between Germany and France which was held to have been responsible for two world wars . |
| 16 | Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 . |
| 17 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 18 | It is unlikely to have been the work of Asclepiodatus , who can scarcely have worked for Chlothar before 613 , given his association with Childebert II , and is equally unlikely to have been active after that date . |
| 19 | Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " . |
| 20 | Old William Cranko and his nephew Frederick both seem to have been fond of feminine company . |
| 21 | It is fair to add that Leeds does not seem to have been unique in this respect : reporting on an inspection carried out in ‘ ethnically diverse areas within three LEAs ’ ( including five Leeds Phase 1 PNP schools ) in March 1988 , HMI remarked that ‘ none of the three LEAs had specific policies for parent school liaison ’ ( DES 1988a ) . |
| 22 | He appears to have been interested in foreign travel , also , to judge from the books he collected . |
| 23 | Some of the republics appear to have been sympathetic to this idea but in the end no common citizenship of this kind was established , which was hardly reassuring ( for instance ) to the very large Russian minorities in the Ukraine and Moldavia . |
| 24 | The same seems to have been true of other clubs . |
| 25 | The DES seem to have been aware of this problem by 1984 when Educational Support Grants ( ESG ) were established ( DES , 1984 ) offering funds to LEAs to appoint consultant teachers who would work with pupils alongside classroom teachers developing practices in curriculum areas which the DES perceived as important . |
| 26 | l9 Moreover , the kairos approach can not speak to the fact of an all-male priesthood ( which God is supposed to have given to His church and to have been adequate in past ages ) precisely having been one of the factors making for the secondary position of women in society . |
| 27 | It seems to have been unusual for any girl to go beyond straight typesetting to learn much about the other processes at this stage : a crucial point . |