Example sentences of "[verb] have been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | They seemed to have been lived by a different person . |
| 32 | The researchers said the Japanese growth in wealth seemed to have been accompanied by a narrowing in the difference in incomes between the richest and poorest , whereas in Britain the gap had widened . |
| 33 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
| 34 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 35 | And in the even more classic ground of the Italian Apennines , where Kuenen and Migliorini first recognised the turbidity current , single graded beds up to 20 metres thick within the Macigno Sandstone are said to have been deposited by a single " whoosh " of turbid water . |
| 36 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 37 | The great magician Merlin was said to have been born of a union between an incubus and a nun ; happily Merlin used his other-worldly powers of wizardry for good , rather than evil . |
| 38 | Mithras was said to have been born in a cave or a grotto , where shepherds attended him and regaled him with gifts . |
| 39 | While a beneficiary of Aethelwealh 's patronage , however , Wilfrid is said to have been sought as a spiritual father by Caedwalla ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 42 ) . |
| 40 | Amis 's Stanley and the Women drew blood , for a time , from feminist opinion , and is said to have been blocked for a period from entry into the United States ; and Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses ( 1988 ) forced its author , a Muslim-born Indian , into hiding in 1989 for its alleged blasphemy against the Prophet . |
| 41 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 42 | There were reports of atrocities by gunmen in Bardera , where 10 people were said to have been murdered at a feeding centre , and of intensified banditry at Kismayu port , ahead of the troops ' arrival . |
| 43 | However , price movements were said to have been exaggerated by a distinct lack of spare stock , with many market makers struggling to fill a series of programme and basket trades . |
| 44 | With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment . |
| 45 | The meeting to implement this merger of separate groups is said to have been held during a football match on 3 February 1930 ( presumably the match distracted attention from the little group ) . |
| 46 | The same gift — of turning thrice when the cock crows — was said to have been bestowed on a rock in Looe harbour which formerly stood on another , elevated rock nearby . |
| 47 | The dynastic change from Tudors to Stuarts in 1603 is sometimes said to have been accompanied by a shift from optimism to gloom , and Bacon certainly took an unusually sober approach . |
| 48 | He was also said to have been angered by a report by the US Export/Import Bank which criticized the structure of the Israeli economy and raised doubts about its ability to repay the debts it intended to take on to help Soviet immigrants . |
| 49 | She is said to have been caught by a Post Office detector van at her home in Chelsea , West London . |
| 50 | Britain was a different world , groggy and cynical after years during which the government was betrayed by a left-dominated trade union movement which it mistakenly believed had been tamed under a ‘ social contract ’ . |
| 51 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 52 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 53 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 54 | The infant had defects that were alleged to have been caused as a result of injuries , when in the womb , sustained when an accident occurred to her mother as a consequence of the negligence of a railway company . |
| 55 | It gives copious detail on four cases where a total of $100m is alleged to have been misappropriated through a complex web of transactions around the world . |
| 56 | The fertiliser in ten plastic bags was alleged to have been found in a bedroom of the couple 's house in Fallswater Street . |
| 57 | Since that time , more than 20,000 babies are thought to have been born as a result of this technique . |
| 58 | Like the earlier incidents the raid was thought to have been motivated by a desire within the Papuan military to cut fuel supplies to the Bougainville rebels . |
| 59 | The village is thought to have been named after a Roman officer , Amboniacus , at the time when the Emperor Probus ordered the replanting of vineyards throughout Gaul . |
| 60 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |