Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 2 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 3 | Sadler 's post of chemist seems to have been terminated in 1809 without compensation , leaving him in severe financial straits , but these were relieved by a subscription among his friends in Oxford . |
| 4 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 5 | Work was interrupted by a fire in the palace in 1298 and little seems to have been done until 1320 , but Michael was occupied on other works for the Crown , being sent to Winchester Castle in 1306 . |
| 6 | The letter was thought to have been heard by one-quarter of the population . |
| 7 | THE Princess of Wales is understood to have been objecting to two claims . |
| 8 | German authorities in late October confirmed a marked increase in cases involving the sale and smuggling of nuclear weapons material from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; more than 100 such cases were said to have been uncovered in 1992 compared with only 29 in 1991 . |
| 9 | This appears to have been composed of two workshops ( possibly small affairs ) where the products of each occur in both Verulamium and Colchester . |
| 10 | A trade agreement was due to have been concluded within two years of Spanish accession but it was not until Feb. 19 , 1988 , that the Andorran government appointed a negotiating team . |
| 11 | Hopes of getting an inquiry appear to have been dashed in 1979 when Britain offered its £100 million and gave the Sri-Lankan government the confidence to sweep aside any objections . |
| 12 | According to old documents , a school appears to have been built in 1796 . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is the view from beneath an archway of the castle , which takes in the parish church , said to have been built in 1363 by John of Gaunt himself . |
| 14 | The theatre is known to have been built in 1599 , and closed by 1642 , but if records are to be believed today 's rebuilding hardly matches the efficiency of 17th century construction workers . |
| 15 | The large Ionic Temple of Artemis at Sardis seems to have been built in three phases . |
| 16 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | In days of old , he was thought to have been ridden by one of the Foawr , fabled giants who threw stones at the earth as they passed overhead . |
| 18 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 19 | Historians say that Anerley Station was named after a villa owned by a Scots merchant and meaning ‘ Lonely ’ and the area is said to have been developed between 1853 and 1858 . |
| 20 | Papal confirmation seems rarely to have been sought before 1198 . |
| 21 | While Mustakimzade is probably right that Fahreddin Acemi taught at Murad II 's Darulhadis , as will be shown , his construction of events-that Fahreddin Acemi taught there and then became Mufti on the death of Molla Fenari-is most unlikely since the Darulhadis of Murad II seems not to have been completed until 23 Sha'ban 838/24 March 1435 . |
| 22 | The present building is supposed to have been erected in 1333 , when the church was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslerton and housed six chaplains and three clerks . |
| 23 | These large white fuel ‘ flasks ’ are themselves considered enough of a danger for a hundred mile an hour full-scale train crush to have been tested in 1984 . |
| 24 | Although the precise aims and composition of RARA remained unclear , the organization appeared to have been formed in 1986 to protest against the " criminal policies " of the Netherlands authorities towards asylum seekers . |
| 25 | The overall trade deficit in 1990 , according to preliminary figures , was US$4,730 million — the first overall deficit to have been recorded for five years . |
| 26 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 27 | By joining seams carefully with mattress stitch the join will not show and the work will appear to have been made in one piece . |
| 28 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 29 | The Beatles ( not EMI ) chose to lavish time and money on the making of the Sgt. Pepper LP , while the Beach Boys ' 1966 single ‘ Good Vibrations ’ was reputed to have been made in four different studios over six months and to have cost £5,000 . |
| 30 | The missing funds are believed to have been deposited by four clients . |