Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] [noun] " 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 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , his only problem seems to have been chronic constipation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Who is the only man in the 20th Century to have been Prime Minister under three different monarchs ? |
| 8 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is difficult to be certain from the passage whether Hezarfen believes there to have been official muftiliks at all in the fifteenth century , but he is clear on the point that the arrangements for whether formal or informal , were similar in the three cities . |
| 11 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | An Air India jet is widely presumed to have been emptive strike . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The £90 invested in baking ingredients was soon seen to have been good sterdship , for the unfailing supply of beautiful baking was a marvel . |
| 19 | Most of the clergy and the peasants were not subjected to the hazards of battle , and the higher clergy seem to have been good risks for the actuary . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 22 | The most potent influence however , seems to have been hieratic Mrs Vreeland : ‘ The first time I saw Diana , I was mesmerized : she looked so incredible . |
| 23 | With the last three murders it seems to have been pure chance that a suitable victim did , in fact , come along . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps not very surprisingly , it turns out to have been pure hell - brutality intensified by stupidity . |
| 25 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 26 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 27 | After the war , most of Montparnasse would claim to have been intimate friends of Modigliani . |
| 28 | On one hand there seems to have been strong appreciation of fine results achievable under dual control of violin and keyboard , as in Italian opera . |
| 29 | Furthermore , an additional factor is likely to have been British support for Bridei , king of the Picts , as the son of Bili , former king of Strathclyde . |
| 30 | In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents . |