Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of what I have heard has been through the press . |
| 2 | The threshold at which mental handicap is considered to commence is at an IQ of 70 , although people with IQs of between 50 and 70 are considered only mildly mentally handicapped , and most children in this category will pass through the educational process along with other children . |
| 3 | The site in the Coln Valley could be expected to have been on much the same pattern , though a smaller scale . |
| 4 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 5 | The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly . |
| 6 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 7 | On Nov. 24 the Indian government accepted the appointment of Chakra Bastola as Nepali ambassador to India after the Bihar state government dropped charges against him for receipt of Rs3,000,000 claimed to have been on board a Royal Nepal Airlines flight which was hijacked to Forbesganj in June 1971 . |
| 8 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 9 | Even so , it is recorded that the President was considered to have been at best somewhat opportunistic in ‘ taking advantage of the favourable atmosphere ’ of the April 27th meeting ! |
| 10 | Government attempts to restrict the sale of gin in 1736 are usually considered to have been behind disturbances in that year , but these also involved the resentment of building workers and weavers at being displaced from employment by the cheaper Irish . |
| 11 | This Bill was gazetted only two months after the closure of one of Tanzania 's few private political newspapers — the last paper which could be considered to have been in open opposition to the Government . |
| 12 | Ekoku was reported to have been at Carrow Road last night for talks over a possible £700,000 transfer before the transfer deadline this afternoon . |
| 13 | The pair were reported to have been at odds for some time with one major area of disagreement believed to concern a £2.2m Venables attempt to land England defender Des Walker from Sampdoria . |
| 14 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |
| 15 | A person who has the right to immediate possession of the land and enters in exercise of that right , is then deemed to have been in possession ever since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 16 | She had thought that the woman had liked her , but the comment she had caught had been to the effect that spoiled children like Miss T. got what they deserved ! |
| 17 | The ‘ enumerated articles ’ included most of the more important English imports from areas in the temperate zones and almost all the goods exported from the tropical and semi-tropical regions in which the colonies most committed to trade were to be found . |
| 18 | Everything my husband has done has been for me . |
| 19 | I believe a lot of what they have done has been in a calculated way , like getting George Best on the cover . |
| 20 | Any decision that has been made has been with the best intentions of the people of at heart , to maintain as a leading European city and to derive benefits for the people of this community . |
| 21 | Any decision that has been made has been with the best intentions of the people of at heart , to maintain as a leading European city and to derive benefits for the people of this community . |
| 22 | This is most common in America , and all the examples I have seen have been in books printed there . |
| 23 | Some form of " co-habitation " with the FIS was said to have been under consideration — possibly with the FIS as a coalition partner in a government in which key ministries would remain in FLN hands , with Chadli serving out his term as President ( due to end in December 1993 ) . |
| 24 | Indeed , he is said to have been beside himself with rage and looking to pick a violent quarrel with anyone who happened along . |
| 25 | At the Smolyan mines , 67 men were said to have been on hunger strike below ground since Aug. 13 [ see p. 39014 for labour unrest ] . |
| 26 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 27 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |
| 28 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 29 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 30 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |