Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 2 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 3 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 4 | Indeed , his only problem seems to have been chronic constipation . |
| 5 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |
| 6 | Who is the only man in the 20th Century to have been Prime Minister under three different monarchs ? |
| 7 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 8 | One aspect of the landscape revolution which this entailed appears to have been major drainage works , which drastically modified the stream between the two villages , to create what is now known as the Maxey Cut . |
| 9 | The elusive nature of the reactions seen in food intolerance makes it difficult to rule out this diagnosis without very thorough testing , and there seems to have been undue reliance on skin-prick tests in this study , despite the fact that these are unreliable indicators in most cases of food sensitivity . |
| 10 | An Air India jet is widely presumed to have been emptive strike . |
| 11 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 12 | I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was |
| 13 | It was not a lesson , according to Mayhew , that the poor in fact needed to learn , for he finds the same scrupulous cleanliness in the poorest of London tenements , where every object in sight from chairs to children seems to have been that moment newly scrubbed . |
| 14 | The main argument of postmodernists who have sympathies with the political left seems to have been that postmodernism can be supportive of a left politics rooted in principles of pluralism and ‘ difference ’ . |
| 15 | In McKerrel v Robertson [ 1956 ] SLT 290 a woman pushing a pram was held to have been one entity and precedence should have been accorded where the pram was on the crossing but the pusher was still on the pavement . |
| 16 | It would have to have been one hell of a continuous storm , and there is nothing in my readings , satellite scan or computer print-out , to suggest that . ’ |
| 17 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 18 | The Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , involving a 20-kilometre diversion of the Danube along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary , was to have been bilateral venture , but Hungary withdrew in 1989 because of what it considered the unjustifiable environment effect , including the pollution of drinking water and destruction of wetlands . |
| 19 | Though it is thought to have been first run in 1519 , it was not until 1619 that it was endowed by forty-nine local gentlemen . |
| 20 | The £90 invested in baking ingredients was soon seen to have been good sterdship , for the unfailing supply of beautiful baking was a marvel . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 23 | There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 26 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 29 | Brady was yesterday reluctant to say too much on the subject of his meeting with some board members , but it was obvious that the details of what ought to have been private business becoming public knowledge had disturbed the manager . |
| 30 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |