Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was
2 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 .
3 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 ’ .
4 One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind .
8 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 .
9 Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed .
10 Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time .
11 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 .
12 There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years .
13 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 .
14 I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley .
15 ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here .
16 There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth .
17 In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent .
18 Here he encountered Charles I 's young daughter Elizabeth [ q.v. ] , to whom he seems to have been some kind of chaplain and with whose virtues he was much taken .
19 There appears to have been some resistance within the Soviet military to Khrushchev 's doctrine of ‘ minimum deterrence ’ — the USSR , he had complained in 1963 , could not produce ‘ nothing but rockets ’ — and the Cuban missile crisis and later the Vietnam War delayed the signature of further agreements .
20 Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years .
21 There seems to have been some obfuscation , perhaps deliberate , in the translation of the original Coptic text , but what Jesus appears to say is : ‘ Greetings , my venerable guardian Peter .
22 Seems to have been some sort of mix-up .
23 There also appears to have been some confusion over photo credits : the colour photo on page 507 was actually taken by this reviewer , but is one of a number of photos incorrectly credited to another person .
24 The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) .
25 There appears to have been some slackness in staff discipline in that teachers were often late for , or even absent from , lectures .
26 Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square .
27 Difficulties arise because there does not seem to have been any system of numbering or any attempt to group subjects .
28 In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case .
29 Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion .
30 There do not appear to have been any children ( none are mentioned in his will ) .
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