Example sentences of "[verb] to have been [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since October 1982 more than 800 protesters are reported to have been arrested on false charges and many have been tortured , according to Survival International . |
| 2 | Despite his chosen role as a small-town shopkeeper he seemed to have been accepted on equal terms by talented cosmopolitans … |
| 3 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 4 | This objection could be countered by examples of churches known to have been built on pagan sites , such as Cascob , Radnorshire and Fimber , East Yorkshire , which were actually built on tumuli . |
| 5 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musical flaws . |
| 6 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musi cal flaws . |
| 7 | In the UK little work of any description seems to have been done on human behaviour in the aftermath of releases of hazardous substances , nor is much available on public attitudes to emergency planning . |
| 8 | This decision , to cease teacher training at the Polytechnic while allowing it to continue at West Glamorgan seems to have been based on political rather than educational considerations . |
| 9 | It seems to have been based on real understanding , but little real intimacy . |
| 10 | Before rising population and inflating prices for necessaries began to increase the burden on rate-payers from the last third of the century , the relief of the village and small-town poor seems to have been based on humane assessment of need and sufficient relief . |
| 11 | Civilization , like the city of Venice , seems to have been built on unprepossessing ground . |
| 12 | A LARGE and sumptuous Byzantine church , recently discovered in Istanbul , seems to have been modelled on biblical descriptions of the temple of Solomon at Jerusalem . |
| 13 | During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations . |
| 14 | Her father always swore while he drank the stuff , claiming to have been raised on real coffee before the CAC stopped exporting from Nicaragua , but she never understood his complaints . |