Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives . |
| 2 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 3 | ‘ It will probably turn out to have been discovered twenty times already . |
| 4 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 5 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The others acknowledged us cheerily , clearly relieved to have been allowed 30 seconds for a sit-down . |
| 8 | Kazakhstan was said to have been losing 150,000,000 roubles daily since May because of the difference between its fuel prices and those of Russia [ see also p. 38923 ] . |
| 9 | Detectives say it could be another six weeks before they can formally identify the body of a woman believed to have been murdered twenty years ago . |
| 10 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 11 | The new carriageway was , however , short-lived , and a masonry building , probably a bath-house , was constructed across it at this point ; the surviving carriageway appears to have been resurfaced seven times . |
| 12 | This would suggest that by the date of the walls , the interior was already well built-up ; indeed excavations near the south-west gate she wed the intervallum road to have been re-metalled six times indicating prolonged usage . |