Example sentences of "to have been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the attacks were near main roads , and the original police hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from one enclosed pasture to another ; then several horses seemed to have been assaulted in different places at the same time , although this is not certain . |
| 2 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 3 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 4 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
| 5 | Apparently cystic abnormalities within the biliary ducts of several of the present patients do not appear to have been recognised in other contexts : it is suggested that these too are a constituent of the radiology of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 6 | ‘ The medals represent the overall effort of the entire UN peace-keeping force in Bosnia , but nevertheless I 'm deeply honoured to have been recognised in this way , I 'm just one of the fortunate ones . ’ |
| 7 | They are sufficiently common to have been studied in several ancient civilisations , and are named after Diophantus of Alexandria who wrote a 13-volume treatise on arithmetic in about 250 AD . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Among the most widely reported incidents , six people were killed by unknown gunmen as they waited in a taxi queue in Vosloorus township south of Johannesburg on May 1 , while nine other people were said to have been killed in other incidents the same day . |
| 10 | The murders by the drug cartels of two federal judges , Héctor Jiménez Rodriguez and Mariela Espinoza Arango , in Medellín on Oct. 17 and Nov. 1 , 1989 , respectively , and that of court summoner Guillermo Mena Lozano on Nov. 1 in Cali provoked a 13-day strike beginning on Nov. 2 of judges and court workers which paralysed the judicial system nationwide ( 350 judicial employees and 50 judges were estimated to have been killed in drug-related violence since 1980 ) . |
| 11 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 12 | Clashes also continued within Turkey itself during this period , and some 40 people were reported to have been killed in separate incidents , the worst of these occurring on Aug. 16 when 14 Kurds and five troops and police died as demonstrations broke out to mark the eighth anniversary of the separatist rebellions of 1983 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] . |
| 13 | Amid allegations in early June that rebels loyal to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) led by Charles Taylor were obstructing the deployment of peacekeeping troops of the Economic Community of West Africa States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , six Senegalese ECOMOG soldiers were reported to have been killed in NPFL-held territory . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | According to old documents , a school appears to have been built in 1796 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The large Ionic Temple of Artemis at Sardis seems to have been built in three phases . |
| 20 | Thus CPRW believes that genuine planning gain can not be considered to have been achieved in this case . |
| 21 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 22 | Walls seem to have been painted in flat colour washes even earlier . |
| 23 | Fluid flow turbulence , in contrast , is far too pervasive ever to have been regarded in this way . |
| 24 | I am aware of the extensive experimental research which has focused on ion forms involving Ca++ Na+ etc2 , but what seems to have been missed in this prior research is the appreciation that water forms its own ion form in that it dissociates into hydroxyl and hydronium ions as listed on the table . |
| 25 | The old grey wood , though still dampish , looked as adequate for its purpose as its fellows still forming the boathouse floor and did n't seem to have been weakened in any way . |
| 26 | It 's thought the body is that of a man , but it 's not believed to have been mutilated in any way . |
| 27 | Our room appeared not to have been inhabited in living memory . |
| 28 | The term ‘ carrier ’ seems to have been coined in Anglo-American legal discourse largely to aid in the assessment of liability for damage to cargo . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |