Example sentences of "[verb] have [been] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desire to diversify has been prompted by a need to boost dwindling profit margins in an increasingly competitive traditional banking sector . |
| 2 | None of the museums consulted has been approached as a possible venue for any of the ‘ WONDERS ’ shows . |
| 3 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 4 | What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies . |
| 5 | none of the systems to be reported has been tested in a way which would allow evaluation of their linguistic effectiveness . |
| 6 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 7 | She used to repeat the expression on attend pas mieux , through tight lips , in relation to any misdemeanour reported to have been committed by a Jew . |
| 8 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 9 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 10 | To achieve commendably rapid publication the author 's original typescripts appear to have been reproduced with a mix of typography and some English which would have benefited from editorial attention . |
| 11 | This consisted of a carefully buried wooden box containing a collection of bronzes which appear to have been associated with a religious site . |
| 12 | The rioters appear to have been drawn from a broad cross-section of London society : the majority were wage-earners , small craftsmen and tradesmen , although there was an appreciable " white collar " or professional element , and even some gentlemen rioters . |
| 13 | The prints , which the Fingerprint Branch of Scotland Yard found to have been made with a left thumb pressed into the painting while still wet , have been minutely replicated in the damaged areas . |
| 14 | A different type of biologically engineered pest control is claimed to have been effected through a free-living soil bacteria . |
| 15 | Fairley was considered to have been converted into a sex monster by viewing pornographic films . |
| 16 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 17 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 18 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 19 | It is a measure of the grim recalcitrance of the region 's problems that Schultz 's message was reported to have been saluted by a strike called in protest among the Palestinians of the occupied territories . |
| 20 | The final assault on Bijeljina was reported to have been led by a Serbian guerrilla leader known as Arkan , whose units fought in some of the most ferocious battles in Croatia . |
| 21 | The Rights of Way Act 1932 provides that where a way over land had been actually enjoyed by the public as of right and without interruption for a full period of 20 years , the way shall be deemed to have been dedicated as a highway , unless there is sufficient evidence that there was no intention during the 20-year period to dedicate it . |
| 22 | When that need arose there is clear enough indication of the availability of collective response from a continuing association which does not always need to have been preserved as a formal organisation . |
| 23 | Over 140 people listed had been detained in a wave of arrests in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou beginning in November 1990 . |
| 24 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 25 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 26 | The selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate shall not be regarded as completed until the name of the member selected has been placed before a meeting of the National Executive Committee , and his or her selection has been duly endorsed . |
| 27 | The refusal to talk , believed to have been decided in a meeting of the Politburo , contributed to renewed speculation here that Mr Honecker may no longer be in full control . |
| 28 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 29 | Firemen were called to extinguish the blaze , believed to have been started by a faulty electric blanket . |
| 30 | The grief which she had shown over the death of her father seemed to have been replaced by a kind of nervous irritability . |