Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I was going to 've been Suzanne Brown , years ago , before he stole my bag . |
| 2 | I ought to I ought to 've been the bloody brainiest in country me |
| 3 | ‘ You may wish to ask yourself whether there really has to date been a desire to address the drug problem in sport with firm conviction . ’ |
| 4 | The Airline Industry has to date been slower than others in exploring the benefits to be achieved in using AI technology . |
| 5 | Japan Computer 's X-terminals have to date been based on MC68020 and MC68030 technology , including two models of the Xface terminal with an electroluminescent screen . |
| 6 | This puts in perspective the Department of Economic Development 's approach to community economic development , which has to date been one of employing outside consultants without sufficient consideration for the need of local input . |
| 7 | The practice of nurses working flexible hours , which is largely controlled by the needs of the nursing team , has to date been given little attention . |
| 8 | The general equilibrium analysis of tax incidence has to date been undertaken largely independently of the literature on macroeconomics . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money has to date been contributed by the private sector to city technology colleges . |
| 10 | Academic study of the members of the Conservative party at either national or local level has to date been almost entirely ignored . |
| 11 | Despite government promises of firm action , no official had to date been convicted of corruption . |
| 12 | There has to date been no detailed investigation of the pronunciation of black native speakers of LE : in fact there have been few recent studies of LE pronunciation . |
| 13 | Never had the commitment of those who wanted to stay been as strong as now . |
| 14 | In a few cases , prisoners are reported to have been deliberately executed without trial . |
| 15 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 16 | Dozens of people are reported to have been tortured while held incommunicado in prolonged garde à vue detention by the Tunisian police since January 1991 . |
| 17 | No investigation is known to have been carried out either by the Indian or Sri Lankan authorities . |
| 18 | Tell the King that Mohamed Srifi 's only crime seems to have been the expression of his peaceful political views . |
| 19 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 20 | Orlando Azcué was also said to have been beaten by prison guards on at least three occasions . |
| 21 | Modelled on similar organizations in Argentina and Central America , it consists mainly of mothers whose husbands , sons and daughters have ‘ disappeared ’ or are known to have been murdered by the government or the JVP . |
| 22 | Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion . |
| 23 | The reader can thus be aware that a writer may have written round what happens to have been offered . |
| 24 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 25 | But there is some question of a pathogenic secret , of the recovery of material hitherto repressed which influenced his perception of his mother : and his understanding of the past would certainly appear to have been enlarged by his researches . |
| 26 | ( But can this be said to have been what happened ? |
| 27 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 28 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 29 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 30 | He has travelled from the liberated past , when imagination took power , to the liberation of an interest in fact — a state which may or may not prove to have been , for Roth , partial or provisional , and which The Facts , in its totality , manages to enclose in an ironised uncertainty . |