Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 2 | This appears simply to have been a trick on the part of the attorney , and not evidence that Rothbury was known to have been corrupt . |
| 3 | In 1601 Jaggard collaborated with Thomas Pavier to publish the only book of his own composition , a summary history of the lord mayors of London from Elizabeth 's accession until 1601 , and in 1602 he acquired what seems to have been a monopoly on the printing of playbills ( none survives ) . |
| 4 | Such seems to have been the case on 25 February when eight of the Hurricanes were sent up after four aircraft reported as Do215s at 6,000 feet over the St. Paul 's Bay area . |
| 5 | Yesterday was to have been the day on which the Prime Minister would restore his credibility and breathe new life back into his party . |
| 6 | Accordingly , in my judgment we have in this case a clear statement by the responsible minister stating the effect of the ambiguous words used in what became section 63 of the Act of 1976 which the Parliamentary history shows to have been the basis on which that section was enacted . |
| 7 | He seems to have been an influence on Innocent and we are almost surely not far from the mark in imagining long discussions between the three on theology and politics . |