Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
| 2 | The princes had not been mentioned and she assumed it to have been instructions for some special task commissioned privately by the new constable . |
| 3 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 4 | As the majority seem to have been charges on benefices , the two enjoyed by the rector of Marsh Gibbon were additional to his living and presumably from a different source . |
| 5 | As both organizations were undergoing far-reaching reforms , a tightly specified brief was not required and , in the event , it seems to have been changes in the Foreign Office structure which led to the abandonment of that part of the competition . |
| 6 | A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family . |
| 7 | Her shoes , posture , and proportions have a strange economic significance , since they all seem to have been factors in her dismissal . |
| 8 | In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved . |
| 9 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 10 | Which periods of UK history seem to have been periods of major structural change ? |
| 11 | There appear to have been trends in the fossil gymnosperms leading to increased protection of the ovules . |
| 12 | Although Whaddon were the only team to enter , and despite the FA declaring the competition null and void , we can , in all fairness I think , claim to have been holders of the Charwoods ' Sweet Pickle A and B Cup . |
| 13 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |
| 14 | At first they were thought to have been victims of a crossbow bolt . |
| 15 | We are proud to have been supporters of him and the team . |
| 16 | Both these divisions , however , appear to have been exceptions to the normal pattern , since they raised issues concerning the Union with Scotland , complex legal technicalities , as well as personal questions of sympathy for or antipathy towards the individuals concerned , all of which placed strains on the normal political sympathies of the different peers . |
| 17 | On Feb. 21 , arson attacks against three department stores in Frankfurt were reported to have been protests against western involvement in the Gulf . |
| 18 | Clinton and Neville of Hornby seem to have been followers of the Earl of Lancaster ; Neville had been taken prisoner at Boroughbridge but was pardoned in return for a fine of £500 , of which he paid only £50 . |