Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two year ban which he received has been no more than a minor inconvenience to him . |
| 2 | Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) The third defendant concealed from the plaintiffs what is said to have been a false and fraudulent over-valuation of the bakery made in June 1983 by another of the alleged conspirators in order to support an even higher level of loan by B.M.T. ( 5 ) On 24 June 1983 B.M.T. offered to lend C.M.C. £420,000 on the security of the bakery in substitution for its previous offer to lend £185,500 . |
| 4 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 5 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |
| 6 | While there seems to have been a major but largely unmeasured swing to Labour during the war , the pre-war electoral situation revealed no great reaction against the National government . |
| 7 | In the light of the accountability angle of the LEA scheme , to have avoided subjecting school policies and personnel to critical scrutiny whilst at the same time taking advantage of the appraisal to engage in special pleading over staffing and resources , seems to have been a sensible and shrewd strategy . |
| 8 | Additionally , and of equal significance , is the fact that within the overall blood taboo context there seems to have been a clear and hierarchical distinction made between male blood and female blood . |
| 9 | Once again , our ignorance is very great ; but wherever we go in Europe , we find traces of what seems to have been a widespread and quite accepted practice , before the papal reform and the insistence on celibacy . |
| 10 | Lodwick seems to have been an attractive and popular person , to judge by the entries in Hooke 's diary , and he was undoubtedly modest about his qualifications and achievements . |
| 11 | ‘ From the records available , it would seem to have been a substantial and well-constructed building , typical of its time with pleasant grounds and circular carriage drives front and rear . ’ |
| 12 | Magda Lupescu was held to have been an avaricious and pernicious influence on Carol II . |
| 13 | With his deeply ingrained Catholic convictions and his belief in his role as God 's warrior , Franco could not tolerate what he considered to have been a religious and moral , as well as a political , betrayal . |