Example sentences of "[verb] to have been [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 2 | The pseudotachylite is considered to have been formed in places as molten material , by heat generated from frictional sliding along the thrust plane . |
| 3 | Five people were reported to have been killed in disturbances during the second round . |
| 4 | Odinga , aged 80 , was reported to have been interrogated by police in Nairobi before being driven back to his home near Kisumu 400 km away . |
| 5 | Drugs worth more than US$4,300,000 were reported to have been seized by police in Swaziland in late December 1989 . |
| 6 | In the previous three weeks , an estimated 300 people were reported to have been murdered by troops , adding to the estimated 2,000 lives lost since September 1991 . |
| 7 | The strike passed off relatively peacefully , although 50 strikers were reported to have been arrested following clashes with riot police . |
| 8 | Ten firemen are in a special isolation ward with ‘ glowing fingertips ’ , nausea and diarrhoea believed to have been caused by chemicals . |
| 9 | Now Cleveland Police hope to trace the owners of the items , believed to have been stolen from houses in East Cleveland and North Yorkshire . |
| 10 | The decision followed reports that up to 250,000 hectares ( 2,500 sq km ) of subtropical forest in Mexico 's Yucatán peninsula had been destroyed by a series of fires believed to have been started by farmers and ranchers seeking to extend their land holdings . |
| 11 | Yet they do not appear to have been cowed by systems or professionals . |
| 12 | The uniform he was wearing seemed to have been assembled from outfits designed to fit several very different people : the sleeves were too long and the neck too wide , while the cap was so small it had left a pink welt around his forehead . |
| 13 | It is said to have been built without nails , bolts , dowels or other fixings to a design by Newton , but to have been bolted together following its dismantling by drunken students who were unable , when sober , to reverse their vandalism ! |
| 14 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 15 | The company 's strategies in the mid-range — where its RISC machines and AS/400s show great potential for growth and profitability — are said to have been constrained by concerns over self-impact . |
| 16 | Over 60 per cent of children aged five can be shown to have been infected with herpes virus , and this figure approaches 95 per cent in adults . |
| 17 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 18 | Mrs Ellen Morpeth is thought to have been overcome by fumes after the chair she was sitting on caught fire . |
| 19 | Reports on Aug. 2 said that hundreds of people were killed after an explosion at an arms depot in Kabul thought to have been triggered by rockets fired by mujaheddin . |
| 20 | President Pierre Buyoya refused to accept their resignations , amid an increased atmosphere of tension after a bomb , thought to have been planted by members of the minority Tutsi group , exploded in Bujumbura on Nov. 4 , 1989 . |
| 21 | This phase is thought to have been controlled by reactions between saline solutions associated with Permian sediments and volcanics and the underlying Devonian rocks . |
| 22 | All three are thought to have been working as bouncers . |
| 23 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 24 | One interesting relic of Seagoe 's distant past is the Cloch Bann , an ancient bronze handbell thought to have been used at funerals . |
| 25 | Two different strategies seem to have been adopted by researchers in tackling the problems outlined in 7.5 and 7.6 , which are associated with the relationship between syntax and various types of meaning . |
| 26 | Copies seem to have been made from casts of the original , with the help of a pointing machine which allowed certain basic measurements to be reproduced mechanically . |
| 27 | Thanks to Lil , Engineering is now mostly run by feisty little females who seem to have been born with spanners in their hands and quantum physics on the brain . |
| 28 | Probably fifty-odd were bound up ( of which over thirty seem to have been sent to hospitals ) before Dodgson learnt that Tenniel , the illustrator , was dissatisfied with the reproduction of the pictures , whereupon the author decided to abandon the publication and recall the distributed copies . |
| 29 | Indeed , Pausanias shows us what an account of a war with the Celts looked like in the pre-scientific days of Celtic studies , in the third century B.C. Direct contacts with the Celts seem to have been confined to prisoners or to mercenaries , bad subjects for ethnographic research |
| 30 | Hong Kong 's decision to free him is understood to have been made after talks involving the governor , Sir David Wilson , and the territory 's political adviser , William Ehrman . |