Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the inter-war years the trend seems to have been towards increasing privatisation of the respectable working class family . |
| 2 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |
| 3 | Whig Jacobitism , however , appears to have been of minimal significance in Scotland . |
| 4 | The claim seems to have been of recent origin , and it is not quite clear on what it was based apart from the general principle of primacy . |
| 5 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 6 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |
| 7 | Increasing EEC involvement in defence and foreign policy seems to have been of particular concern to the Danes . |
| 8 | after leading Sunderland to the FA Cup final last May.But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 9 | But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 10 | Certainly the Catholic Church had a vested interest in Aristotelian philosophy , but much of the conflict ostensibly between science and religion turns out to have been between new science and the sanctified science of the previous generation . |
| 11 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 12 | For it must be remembered that Divitiacus does not seem to have been in perfect command either of Greek or of Latin . |
| 13 | Although the sociologists and anthropologists are too polite to mention it , social codes in general including in these changing times whichever one was brought up in oneself by the preceding generation , can be seen from a sufficient distance to have been in large part shaped by gross delusions about the cosmos and about man , and by a brutal ignorance of everyone outside one 's own people , sex and class . |
| 14 | They thought in terms of a picture of the universe and of the origin of humankind ( one which we now know to have been in large part mistaken ) , and they interpreted their awareness of God in conjunction with this picture . |
| 15 | However , on several other occasions the Kuwaiti authorities have denied holding individuals who were subsequently found to have been in incommunicado detention . |
| 16 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 17 | This Bill was gazetted only two months after the closure of one of Tanzania 's few private political newspapers — the last paper which could be considered to have been in open opposition to the Government . |
| 18 | Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) . |
| 19 | It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals . |