Example sentences of "to have been [vb pp] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 7 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is clear that all around the world , Rottweilers seem to have been discovered all at the same time . |
| 10 | The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century . |
| 11 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 12 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 13 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 16 | Mike Queen , director in charge of the public sector , said : ‘ We are delighted to have been awarded this prestigious £4 million contract . |
| 17 | ‘ I think he has enough talent to have been included many more times . |
| 18 | Judicial reviews are also threatened in Oldham and the London Borough of Croydon , although an action in Cheshire appeared to have been resolved this week . |
| 19 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 20 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |
| 21 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 22 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 23 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
| 24 | The highly specialised craft of lacquer painting and decoration seems to have been invented several thousand years ago in China , where the lacquer tree grows . |