Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the presence of antibodies to HIV means that the person has become infected with HIV at some time in the past . |
| 2 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Maxwell was reported to have moved to France after her husband 's death , leaving behind the family mansion , Oxford 's Headington Hill Hall . |
| 4 | Charles is reported to have spoken with Camilla on December 15 , 1989 , while staying in Cheshire with Lord Cholmondeley , at Cholmondeley Castle . |
| 5 | Faced with revolt in the north by anti-government guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , the Djibouti government was reported to have appealed to France for military support , on the basis of the 1977 defence treaty between the two countries , and for the intervention of French forces stationed in Djibouti . |
| 6 | All the families involved had moved from England to Orkney for a variety of reasons . |
| 7 | Crosby 's acceleration and close control were a frequent worry to Everton on the right but seven minutes before half-time the winger only seemed to have got past Snodin by fouling him . |
| 8 | The movement could be said to have started in Scotland in 1972 , when the Headteachers ' Association set themselves to determine the range of items of information needed to produce a comprehensive picture of the aptitudes and interests of all pupils , offering them a common form of statement , which would be generally comprehensible and would be available to them when appropriate . |
| 9 | Similarly , the work of Melanie Klein can be seen to have built upon Freud by retaining the death instincts in the area of the theory of personality development and psychoanalytic therapy . |
| 10 | I would have thought having worked for Ricky for nearly two years , she might be allowed to evolve her own style . ’ |
| 11 | Andrewes would almost certainly have preferred to have remained at Cambridge as a don , a life for which he was superbly fitted . |
| 12 | Moses and Aaron are shown to have descended from Jacob through the line of Levi . |
| 13 | The man hitherto thought to have played for Australia in the first two test ( meaning international ) matches on record , at Melbourne in 1876–77 , now turns out to have been quite another Hodges . |
| 14 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 15 | The first traces seem to have appeared in Peru at the beginning of the second millennium B.C. By the birth of Christ a relatively complex metallurgy , including rich goldsmithery , was being practised in Panama and Costa Rica . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , he 'd have got rid of Balor by now , ’ said Fenella . |
| 17 | The WHO estimates that 30–40 million people throughout the world will have become infected with HIV by the year 2000 , of which 12–18 million may have developed symptoms . |
| 18 | Jones appears to have lived in Oxford throughout her life . |
| 19 | Now , the idea for the curtained cab appears to have come to Flaubert as a result of his own eccentric conduct in Paris when anxious to avoid running into Louise Colet . |
| 20 | He had to be in Amsterdam next week , he told her , and Rio in November , so they decided to get married in Brussels in the last week of October . |
| 21 | The row over fibre glass figures adourning buildings seems to have moved from Oxford to Birmingham . |
| 22 | Ho seems to have remained in Kunming until 1945 where he cultivated the OSS , portraying himself as a Communist who was above all a nationalist . |
| 23 | From Karaman Molla Fenari seems to have gone to Egypt for further study , especially under Shaykh Akmal al-Din ( d. 786/1384–5 ) . |
| 24 | The unemployed fan is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south London two years ago to be closer to Helena , whose films include Lady Jane and Room With A View . |
| 25 | Mr Farquharson , who is unemployed , is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south-east London , to be closer to Miss Bonham-Carter . |
| 26 | They tell the audience that Claudia Cohn-Casson , born 1912 , is believed to have died in Auschwitz on or about 20 April 1945 , fifteen days before Germany surrendered . |
| 27 | A Very little is known about Foster , but he is believed to have worked with Leppard in Bristol around 1810–30 . |
| 28 | The motor manufacturer is not going to be best pleased to discover that the aircraft he though he had retained has hopped to Ibiza with a load of spotty would-be tourists from Kettering . |
| 29 | Only periodically does Mr Tebbit seem to have looked to Powell as a politician who could express some of his gnawing doubts about the Heath government . |
| 30 | Responding to concern expressed by Andreotti over human rights in China , Jiang Zemin said that China 's record on feeding and clothing its population constituted observance of human rights , and was " a great contribution to world peace " . |