Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] been [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For whatever reason , Neil , who had almost looked forward to relieving his body 's urgent demands — he seemed to have been continent for years , and McAllister 's arrival in Vetch Street had most inconveniently revived his dormant senses — found that he was disgusted with himself most of all .
2 Yet in one sense even the United States might be said to have been part of an economic system controlled by Europe down to 1914 in that she remained a capital-importing nation , and that capital came from Europe .
3 If this does occur , then the Act will be seen to have been part of a ‘ softening-up ’ exercise , creating the conditions within which abolition of the right is capable of being presented as an inevitable rationalization , without actually tackling it directly .
4 Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) .
5 The three were alleged to have been part of a 30-strong gang which rampaged through the park on April 19 , 1989 , making a series of unprovoked attacks which culminated in the gang-rape of the jogger who was left unconscious with severe head injuries .
6 The charcoal sketch , measuring 25.7×19.3 cm , is thought to have been part of a Leonardo sketchbook owned by George IV .
7 ( To both Leonard 's and his mother 's regret , sadly ; another of those alienating-reconciling events which seem to have been characteristic of this family . )
8 There is no evidence that the East Saxons under Swaefberht , who seems to have succeeded Offa ( see above p. 124 ) and who died in 738 , and then under Selered ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) , who died in 746 ( ASC A , s.a. 746 ) , were anything other than subject to the Mercians at this time and Aethelbald appears to have been master of the land of the Middle Saxons ( CS 182 : S 100 ) .
9 A certain Osmund appears to have been king of the South Saxons until at least c .
10 With Sir Thomas Cooke , his successor as governor , Herne appears to have been party to some extremely shady deals to break up the opposition group in 1693–4 , and to have engaged in bribery to help secure a new charter for the company in 1694 ; all this brought a parliamentary storm on his head in the spring of 1696 .
11 Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was .
12 The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England .
13 Alured 's civil war activities were concentrated in two committees : he seems to have been chairman of the committee of the East Riding , and he was an equally active member of the committee of the Northern Association ( sometimes called ‘ the committee at York ’ , though wholly distinct from the committee of Yorkshire , also at York ) .
14 He was the son of and seems to have been co-ruler with King Cenred ( see Appendix , Fig. 3 ) , whose advice he acknowledges in his laws which date to the period before 693/4 ( when Eorcenwald , bishop of London , whose help he also acknowledges , died ) .
15 As we shall see , there seems to have been provocation from Normandy too .
16 There also seems to have been trouble at Ramsey .
17 This gave the Serbs control of most of a corridor across northern Bosnia linking Serbia proper with the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK — the Serb areas in Croatia ) and was rumoured to have been part of a deal with Croatia in exchange for the army 's withdrawal from Prevlaka [ see above ] .
18 Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history .
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