Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of nurses working flexible hours , which is largely controlled by the needs of the nursing team , has to date been given little attention . |
| 2 | Human skeletons and a cannon-ball weighing twelve pounds have been unearthed in the garden , and the names ‘ Battle Well ’ and ‘ Battle Cottages ’ , both found close by , are unlikely to have been called this without good reason . |
| 3 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 4 | It is very easy to get involved in discussing whether Olive ought to have been given some knowledge of French wines before George moved , or perhaps persuaded to move to the city along with him . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’ |
| 6 | In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft . |
| 7 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 8 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 9 | Dance seems to have been affected most by psychological studies initiated by Freud and others and first exploited by Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman . |
| 10 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 11 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 12 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 13 | It is clear that all around the world , Rottweilers seem to have been discovered all at the same time . |
| 14 | The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century . |
| 15 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 16 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 17 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 18 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 19 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 20 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 21 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 22 | One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie . |
| 23 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 24 | Mike Queen , director in charge of the public sector , said : ‘ We are delighted to have been awarded this prestigious £4 million contract . |
| 25 | ‘ I think he has enough talent to have been included many more times . |
| 26 | Judicial reviews are also threatened in Oldham and the London Borough of Croydon , although an action in Cheshire appeared to have been resolved this week . |
| 27 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 28 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |
| 29 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 30 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |