Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site in the Coln Valley could be expected to have been on much the same pattern , though a smaller scale . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Indeed , he is said to have been beside himself with rage and looking to pick a violent quarrel with anyone who happened along . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 17 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 20 | " 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 . " |
| 21 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 22 | Along with Santa Cruz Operation Inc and IXI Ltd , Unix System Laboratories is said to have been amongst those approached by a gang of users and integrators known as Galileo , who are trying to get the industry working on a common graphical user interface end environment that behaves the same way regardless of which operating system and hardware lies underneath ( UX No 415 ) . |
| 23 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 24 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 25 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 26 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 27 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 28 | They were active as railway architects , and the stations on the main line between Newcastle and Berwick-on-Tweed , commissioned by George Hudson [ q.v. ] in 1846 — ‘ Fine , handsome buildings … more like the villas raised by retired tradesmen than residences for railway officers ’ — are said to have been by him . |
| 29 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |
| 30 | If he were Donleavy , he would have had to have been at least ten years older than that to have served in Vietnam . |