Example sentences of "[verb] to have been [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 " Tipped , " Timothy Gedge said , the word appearing to have been chosen at random .
2 The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more .
3 As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago .
4 A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year .
5 The result , stretching west from Hedeby , whose semicircular defences also seem to have been renewed at this time , was a rampart over eight miles long , about thirteen yards wide , and nearly ten feet high , not counting the wooden palisade with which it was presumably crowned .
6 As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached .
7 The door appears to have been entered at first floor level .
8 It is known to have been held at some time ‘ on a Thursday with only four people there ’ .
9 His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles .
10 As the barge swept silently towards the docking bay , Rostov noted the clusters of scanners and other unidentifiable telemetry which appeared to have been attached at random to the hull .
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