Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Human skeletons and a cannon-ball weighing twelve pounds have been unearthed in the garden , and the names ‘ Battle Well ’ and ‘ Battle Cottages ’ , both found close by , are unlikely to have been called this without good reason .
2 It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago .
3 The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish .
4 ‘ He seems also to have been given sixty thousand in travel grants .
5 It is very easy to get involved in discussing whether Olive ought to have been given some knowledge of French wines before George moved , or perhaps persuaded to move to the city along with him .
6 ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’
7 In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft .
8 The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in .
9 They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season .
10 The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all .
11 In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death .
12 Mettingham seems to have been assigned special responsibility for hearing quo warranto and related pleas on his eyre circuit , but this was certainly not the only business that he heard .
13 However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ?
14 Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles .
15 Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell .
16 We heard today they were supposed to have been getting engaged to er a seventy year old woman !
17 Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David .
18 It was mounted on four solid tyred wheels and is believed to have been painted dark blue .
19 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 .
20 Subsequently , when the code was broken , both were found to have been taking ursodeoxycholic acid .
21 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 .
22 These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald .
23 Dance seems to have been affected most by psychological studies initiated by Freud and others and first exploited by Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman .
24 Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other .
25 But on the principle that most clever ideas in this field seem to have been developed first by bats , I do n't mind betting that the answer is yes .
26 Mr Major said he was immensely proud to have been elected Prime Minister in his own right .
27 This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL .
28 Astrel Charles , an opposition parliamentary deputy , was reported on Dec. 18 by the Caribbean news agency Trans World Radio ( Bonair ) to have been shot dead by a rural official who had demanded that Charles end a meeting with his constituents .
29 Five American nuns were reported on Nov. 1 to have been shot dead after disappearing between Oct. 20 and 22 in areas of Monrovia then controlled by Taylor 's forces .
30 Two Somali gunmen were reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded the same day in an attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu , and there were further reported incidents of continuing instability in the capital and elsewhere .
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