Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news followed a Financial Times report that discussions were believed to have been under way for several weeks with a number of prospective buyers , but were most advanced with the US foods and tobacco giant , Philip Morris . |
| 2 | The inquiry at Linlithgow Sheriff Court heard that the pensioner was supposed to have been under supervision when the second fall happened . |
| 3 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 6 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 7 | You do n't have to have been to college |
| 8 | The court rejected the " uncommercial " suggestion that the reference , to achieve those results , would have had to have been to arbitration , and held that it was irrelevant whether the architect issued his certificate mistakenly , because both parties had taken the risk he might do that . |
| 9 | And as a not-particularly-modest Squidgey told her friend in that most revealing of telephone calls , you have to have been to Hell and back yourself to know how to behave nicely with the dying . |
| 10 | In addition 10 seen at Litlington on 14 October 1974 seem most likely to have been on migration , apparently the only such record for Sussex . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | It was an unforgettable night for the challenger and those fortunate enough to have been at ringside . |
| 14 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |
| 15 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 16 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The attack was believed to have been in revenge for the killing by government militia of several Moslem farmers worshipping in a mosque in the neighbouring town of Pikit . |
| 19 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 20 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |
| 21 | The textual practices of these nouveaux romanciers reveal a much greater similarity than was previously the case : under Ricardou 's stewardship , a new aesthetic programme seems to have been in operation . |
| 22 | There is no reason for the School not to have been in operation very soon after Sir Edmond 's death . |
| 23 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 24 | His financial interests appear to have been in land and minerals . |
| 25 | Although difficult to date he believes the trackway to have been in existence for at least 2,000 years and may well pre-date Roman times . |
| 26 | They had sacked Peyrat-le-Château and ravaged the surrounding countryside to the east of Limoges , possibly acting in collusion with Viscount Aimar , since it seems to have been in response to this act of aggression that Mercadier struck at Excideuil in February 1184 . |
| 27 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 28 | He is known to have been in receipt of pensions from at least three institutional clients ( the abbeys of Glastonbury and Ramsey and the priory of Durham ) and probably received similar pensions from many other individuals and institutions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Titron does n't appear to have been in port for over two years . |