Example sentences of "[verb] to have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 3 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This consisted of a carefully buried wooden box containing a collection of bronzes which appear to have been associated with a religious site . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A different type of biologically engineered pest control is claimed to have been effected through a free-living soil bacteria . |
| 9 | Fairley was considered to have been converted into a sex monster by viewing pornographic films . |
| 10 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 11 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 19 | Firemen were called to extinguish the blaze , believed to have been started by a faulty electric blanket . |
| 20 | The grief which she had shown over the death of her father seemed to have been replaced by a kind of nervous irritability . |
| 21 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 22 | They seemed to have been lived by a different person . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mithras was said to have been born in a cave or a grotto , where shepherds attended him and regaled him with gifts . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |