Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule prohibits any person ( other than the actual bidder ) from trading ( or causing others to trade ) where he is in possession of material information relating to the tender offer which he knows or ought reasonably to know has been acquired directly or indirectly from a range of persons . |
| 2 | Competent limestones in the allochthonous Devonian and Carboniferous section can be expected to have been fractured extensively where they were distorted in being forced up tectonic ramps . |
| 3 | Bridges were reported to have been blown up and roads to the capital blocked in an effort to halt the march . |
| 4 | Issues relating to the counsellor 's own personal and family life will need to have been processed thoroughly because counselling other people has to be impartial ( rather than be affected by issues in the counsellor 's own personal life ) and because the counsellor himself or herself may become unsettled when an issued being discussed with a sufferer may be too close for comfort to the counsellor 's personal experience . |
| 5 | The history of St Mary 's and that of the town over which it presides have been bound together since the Middle Ages , and the church 's sober , dignified presence was to form part of Coleridge 's earliest recollections of childhood . |
| 6 | There were several rooms , all in good condition , which seemed to have been rented out though I was aware that they remained my responsibility . |
| 7 | He had been careful not to tear her dress , but everything else seemed to be ruined irrevocably , not the least the inward psyche of Sally-Anne herself , which seemed to have been raped more than her body , if that were possible . |
| 8 | He who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God . |
| 9 | McAteer could not remember having been struck there and made no claim as to how the injury had been caused . |
| 10 | The areas beyond these terminal reaves contain burial and religious monuments which in some cases must be earlier ; so perhaps some respect of older features is implied , an aspect which can be seen elsewhere where barrows and barrow cemeteries seem to have been avoided rather than ignored when the later fields were laid out . |
| 11 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 12 | The search to find another area of the town where buses can stop has been brought about because of mounting complaints about congestion in Prebend Row . |
| 13 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 14 | Although listed as present , Councillor B. Watts appears to have been silenced somehow and even the Mayor 's declared refusal to explain why the land might not be available to the Council appears to pass without his reaction . |
| 15 | Innocent 's chancery — which was to bear quite a heavy weight of governmental responsibility during the pontificate — appears to have been run personally and autocratically by the pope . |
| 16 | He appears to have been ruled out although Eoin Jess WILL lead the attack despite Italian media suggestions that he 'll be left out . |
| 17 | More recently , studies of modern objects by archaeologists working in the sub-discipline of ethno-archaeology have sought to provide ‘ general and testable ’ laws of stylistic behaviour , strongly influenced by an extreme and exquisitely inappropriate form of positivism which took hold of the discipline in the 1960s , and appears to have been retained long after most other social sciences threw off its shackles ( e.g. Binford 1972 ; 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 , see Hodder 1982a and b for a critique ) . |
| 18 | The scribe of S 961 , extant on its original single sheet of parchment , was equally concerned about the aesthetics of his product , and as an archbishop and four bishops are balanced by five abbots , and three earls by three priests , the list seems to have been curtailed so that the different orders match . |
| 19 | Nothing seems to have been put here or there by chance : this is a cockpit designed by professionals for people to do things professionally in . |
| 20 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 21 | Lift the lid off any computer and you 'll be struck as much by what seems to have been left out as by what was put in . |
| 22 | Generally , though , ivory seems to have been concentrated in and near the temples . |
| 23 | She may have been born in Newnham , though much of her life seems to have been spent in or near St Stephen 's parish , near Canterbury . |
| 24 | The basic information they needed had been discovered more than two centuries before . |
| 25 | Large numbers of the birds are believed to have been shot down as they crossed Afghanistan and Pakistan en route to their summer breeding grounds along the River Ob , in eastern Russia . |
| 26 | Repeat what you think has been said so that any misunderstandings can be corrected . |
| 27 | Everything was meant to have been thought out and planned , and woe betide any signs of undue excitement or stress . |
| 28 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |
| 29 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 30 | This volume also has appended a poem ‘ On the Ruins of St. Austin 's , Canterbury ’ , which was published in the Kentish Gazette of 9 July 1774 and said to have been written sometime after Dixon was seventy-three years old . |