Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latent inhibition will show context-specificity when the only training given has been non-reinforced presentations of the stimulus in a given context . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The House will be pleased to know that in 1991 there appear to have been lower fatalities on our roads than in any year since the 1940s , despite a ninefold increase in the amount of traffic . |
| 4 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |
| 5 | There are reported to have been minor clashes with security forces on Saturday evening , but no notable casualties . |
| 6 | There was reported to have been intense lobbying of UN delegates by US and other officials in the days preceding the vote , which was originally scheduled for March 30 , but was postponed to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities on the feast-day of Laila al-Qadr . |
| 7 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , most of what has been written has been complete nonsense , so far from the truth that it 's not even funny . |
| 9 | In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case . |
| 10 | At the same time , you can see the domestic holidays the pattern 's less clear , but certainly there does n't appear to have been any growth . |
| 11 | There do not appear to have been any children ( none are mentioned in his will ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whereas in 1890 there were said to have been two councils , by 1901 there were 720 . |
| 14 | Its leaders were said to have been three executives of the Salsabil computer company , who were now under arrest . |
| 15 | She is said to have been ninety years old in 1849 . |
| 16 | The sons of Aelfwald , still in sanctuary in York minster , were persuaded in 791 to leave the church by what are said to have been false promises and then killed , presumably drowned , by Aethelred in Wonwaldremere . |
| 17 | The £90 invested in baking ingredients was soon seen to have been good sterdship , for the unfailing supply of beautiful baking was a marvel . |
| 18 | After the war , most of Montparnasse would claim to have been intimate friends of Modigliani . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances . |
| 22 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |
| 23 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 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 | This First Book of Dowland 's raises the problem of which was the original form ; some were undoubtedly composed as part-songs , others ( for instance , ‘ Sleep , wayward thoughts ’ and ‘ Awake , sweet love ’ ) probably originated as solos to the lute , while others again ( ‘ If my complaints ' , ‘ Can she excuse ’ , ‘ Now , oh now I needs must part ’ ) seem to have been instrumental dances to which words were later added . |
| 28 | There also seem to have been considerable baseline imbalances in the trial reported by Kinmond and colleagues , judged on the few characteristics described in table I , and so the same concerns must apply . |
| 29 | Their careers seem to have been mythological expressions of the need to overcome the matriarchs who founded agriculture and to whom , in time , the heroes and demi-gods were to be heirs . |
| 30 | On July 14 , when a PRI victory had already been announced by Michoacán 's State Electoral Commission , thousands of PRD supporters in the state capital , Morelia , protested against what they claimed had been widespread fraud . |