Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nexus appears to have been made for a sufficient number of the laity , as those who eventually voted in the referendum voted in favour of inscribing an appropriate anti-abortion clause in the constitution . |
| 2 | It is in relation to this area of activity that recent moves towards systematic amalgamation , centralization , and mutual aid seem to have been made . |
| 3 | Hong Kong 's decision to free him is understood to have been made after talks involving the governor , Sir David Wilson , and the territory 's political adviser , William Ehrman . |
| 4 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 5 | The advance was to have been made during the hours of darkness and across country , keeping away from the roads and lanes . |
| 6 | And , despite Korda 's avowed belief in ‘ lightness ’ , little effort seems to have been made to mute the pompous misanthropy evident in the company 's two H. G. Wells adaptations . |
| 7 | The composition of the Leo X tiles does not compare with any of these , including those from the postulated source at Genoa , but they are almost identical to the composition of contemporary tiles definitely known to have been made at Seville , such as the example in Figure 6.3b . |
| 8 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 9 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 10 | If the family has decided on cremation , the undertaker will need a further form , so this decision needs to have been made prior to the visit to the Registrar . |
| 11 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 12 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 13 | The accusation was declared to have been made by Hugh 's widow and family ‘ from ill will and hatred , because Roger was reproached concerning the perambulation of the forest in those parts not properly performed ’ . |
| 14 | Another shrewd overseas signing seems to have been made in Rudi Bryson , the South African fast bowler , who can also score quick , useful runs down the order . |
| 15 | John Fisher , a Cambridge man , is the only head of a college at either university to have been made a saint . |
| 16 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 17 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are in existence some brief audio recordings of alleged two-way radio conversations between Blake and Bourke which are said to have been made in October 1966 . |
| 20 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 21 | The first explicit statement in Greek literature that , although individual things are subject to change and decay , the world itself is eternal appears to have been made by the philosopher Heraclitus about 500 BC . |
| 22 | In 1155 Barbarossa was crowned with the famous Iron Crown of Lombardy , said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross . |
| 23 | Gas has also been tested from numerous wells in the southern North Sea but the only commercial discovery so far to have been made is the Scram field . |
| 24 | ABOVE : Eclipse , by George Stubbs , reputedly the only painting of this famous horse to have been made from life . |
| 25 | The body and the upper stand seem to have been made in a single casting . |
| 26 | those where an unusual , unexpected or improper use of powers appears to have been made ; |
| 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 | The same sort of calculation seems to have been made by the producers of both Brief History and Soul , the recent BBC2 threeparter presented by Anthony Clare . |
| 29 | Whichever is the answer , one might protest that it is among the most self-evidently absurd generalisations to have been made since the ludicrous title of Saul Bellow 's last full-length novel , More Die of Heartbreak , to which one must answer : no , more do not die of heartbreak . |
| 30 | Apart from the removal of the track brakes , few modifications seem to have been made to any of these cars before the 1914–1918 war . |