Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to have be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death . |
| 2 | Flicking through the register , she then noticed that most of the Wednesdays appeared to have been kept free , and as she pondered this strange fact Silas returned to the office . |
| 3 | Judicial reviews are also threatened in Oldham and the London Borough of Croydon , although an action in Cheshire appeared to have been resolved this week . |
| 4 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 5 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 6 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 7 | Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation . |
| 8 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |