Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the many Deeds performed by Hercules only one appears to have been recorded on a British beaker . |
| 2 | Cadwallon has gathered a victorious host and appears to have been encamped on Môn ( Anglesey ) with a fleet nearby . |
| 3 | Our research is not complete , and your report appears to have been based on a brief article in a farming journal . |
| 4 | The term appears to have been fixed on the Minister 's personal whim . |
| 5 | From then onwards , indeed for a good many years , nothing more appears to have been done on the Coniston Manor . |
| 6 | There has been a change in the approach of local government to compulsory competitive tendering , but it appears to have been lost on the Labour party . |
| 7 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 8 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musical flaws . |
| 9 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musi cal flaws . |
| 10 | In the UK little work of any description seems to have been done on human behaviour in the aftermath of releases of hazardous substances , nor is much available on public attitudes to emergency planning . |
| 11 | He seems to have been hit on the head . |
| 12 | They did not have to face protests and reforms in the middle of the first millennium B.C. In Egypt a morality of silence prevailed , and Mesopotamia — whether Assyria or Chaldaea — seems to have been bent on conquering the others rather than on criticizing herself . |
| 13 | It seems to have been based on real understanding , but little real intimacy . |
| 14 | The decision to locate an assembly plant at Kalmar was made in 1971 and seems to have been based on the need to expand the production facilities . |
| 15 | The trouble seems to have been based on a report by an Inspector of Schools . |
| 16 | The initial growth of CMHTs seems to have been based on assumptions that traditional professional practices could be transformed by organising existing staff ( or existing kinds of professional workers ) in new ways . |
| 17 | This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations . |
| 18 | Before rising population and inflating prices for necessaries began to increase the burden on rate-payers from the last third of the century , the relief of the village and small-town poor seems to have been based on humane assessment of need and sufficient relief . |
| 19 | The levying of taxes in particular seems to have been based on the civitas . |
| 20 | Civilization , like the city of Venice , seems to have been built on unprepossessing ground . |
| 21 | As already noticed , the debate on this issue seems to have been concentrated on the position of the person in custody , and successive editions of Archbold continued until as late as 1959 ( 34th ed. ) to express the inhibition against questioning in terms of such a person . |
| 22 | A LARGE and sumptuous Byzantine church , recently discovered in Istanbul , seems to have been modelled on biblical descriptions of the temple of Solomon at Jerusalem . |
| 23 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |