Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money has to date been contributed by the private sector to city technology colleges . |
| 2 | We pass a council estate and a forlorn shop which seems to have been carved into the ground level of the estate . |
| 3 | This restriction ensures that section 87 can not be exploited , that there will be no difficulty in identifying a genuine successor and that only bona fide claims to have been residing with the tenant shall succeed . |
| 4 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 5 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 6 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 7 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 8 | The positive test is said to have been given after the Lievin race on 13 February which saw Narozhilenko , the world 100m hurdles champion in Tokyo in 1991 , begin an extraordinary record-breaking sequence at 60m hurdles . |
| 9 | A third secretary at the UK embassy was reported on July 21 to have been given until the end of the month to leave the country , accused of having " violated diplomatic norms " . |
| 10 | Conservatives believe revelation to have been given in the past , as do all Christians . |
| 11 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 12 | Their backpacks are believed to have been seen on a dump . |
| 13 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 14 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 15 | In one test , for example , children are asked to identify a traditional English beer tankard — an object unlikely ever to have been seen by a child from a Muslim background in which alcohol is proscribed . |
| 16 | And for every tonne of gold at least twice as much mercury has thought to have been lost into the environment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 19 | An English Requiem is centred around one of the finest works to have been written in the past ten years . |
| 20 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 21 | This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings . |
| 22 | Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising . |
| 23 | It is found in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ( MS Digby 86 ) , that appears to have been written within the diocese of Worcester both for , and , arguably , by , a layman and is datable between the accession of Edward I in 1272 and the end of the eleventh year of his reign in November 1283 . |
| 24 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 25 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
| 26 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 27 | Drama , more than any of the other arts , became a popular pastime for young people which grew rapidly not just in quantity but also in standards , for the notion of training youth in drama seems to have been conceived from the beginning . |
| 28 | Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen . |
| 29 | When they finally appear , they turn out — in what for this play amounts to a considerable comic twist — to have been fitted with the wrong plug . |
| 30 | He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence . |