Example sentences of "to have been [adj] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |