Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The palaeoenvironments also appear to have been little different from those of the afropithecins , with closed woodland-forest indicated for Fort Ternan , although some authors infer open country or even grassland for this site . |
| 2 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
| 3 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 4 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 5 | There does not appear to have been any significant progress on this in the intervening twenty-four years . |
| 6 | There does not appear to have been any significant pressure from voluntary organizations or the public . |
| 7 | At the same time , you can see the domestic holidays the pattern 's less clear , but certainly there does n't appear to have been any growth . |
| 8 | There do not appear to have been any empirical studies which have looked for an increase in the amount of information reflected in share prices as a result of the commencement of trading in index futures ( except in so far as volatility reflects information ; see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 9 | There do not appear to have been any children ( none are mentioned in his will ) . |
| 10 | In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case . |
| 11 | The first actual direct steam-driven flour mill is thought to have been that of Young and Co , of Bristol in 1780 , in Lewis Mead , near the city centre and powered by a Wasborough/Pickerd engine . |
| 12 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 13 | Nor does there seem to have been any wholesale burning of books and manuscripts . |
| 14 | The earliest deposits of Eurodollars seem to have been those in the Moscow Narodny Bank in London and that of another USSR owned bank in Paris . |
| 15 | This requires careful planning , especially in the allocation of committee rooms for use by committees which are to be broadcast , but , in practice , there appears to have been little difficulty . |
| 16 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 17 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 18 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |
| 19 | The first attempt to assess cerebral dominance for language in a group of non-right handed patients appears to have been that of Pratt , Warrington and Halliday ( 1971 ) who tested 12 right handers and 12 so-called left handers . |
| 20 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 21 | What then followed appears to have been this : the daughter died childless and her sister , inspired by father 's words , attempted to recover the estate from the heir who had been instituted . |
| 22 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 23 | The men , aged 21 and 25 , were each injured in both legs in what appears to have been another loyalist paramilitary attack . |
| 24 | There appears to have been some slackness in staff discipline in that teachers were often late for , or even absent from , lectures . |
| 25 | Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years . |
| 26 | There also appears to have been some confusion over photo credits : the colour photo on page 507 was actually taken by this reviewer , but is one of a number of photos incorrectly credited to another person . |
| 27 | There appears to have been some resistance within the Soviet military to Khrushchev 's doctrine of ‘ minimum deterrence ’ — the USSR , he had complained in 1963 , could not produce ‘ nothing but rockets ’ — and the Cuban missile crisis and later the Vietnam War delayed the signature of further agreements . |
| 28 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
| 29 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 30 | Although John Ellis , a botanical and zoological Fellow , had written to Linnaeus , ‘ Miller 's Dictionary is the chief book that is read by gentlemen who study the art of gardening ’ , there seems to have been little pleasant exchange between them . |