Example sentences of "[verb] have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 2 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 3 | One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie . |
| 4 | Finally , a work-based Certificate in Funeral Directing has been introduced this year . |
| 5 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 6 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 7 | It is clear that all around the world , Rottweilers seem to have been discovered all at the same time . |
| 8 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 9 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 10 | If you are going to show candidates around then make sure there is someone to do it and that anyone whose work/routine might be affected has been given some advance warning . |
| 11 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 12 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 13 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
| 14 | Dance seems to have been affected most by psychological studies initiated by Freud and others and first exploited by Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman . |
| 15 | The highly specialised craft of lacquer painting and decoration seems to have been invented several thousand years ago in China , where the lacquer tree grows . |
| 16 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 17 | Judicial reviews are also threatened in Oldham and the London Borough of Croydon , although an action in Cheshire appeared to have been resolved this week . |
| 18 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |
| 19 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |
| 20 | The other methods listed have been used much less . |