Example sentences of "[to-vb] been written [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students .
2 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 .
3 Apart from reviews , nothing seemed to have been written about her except for a sympathetic article by Richard Strachey in the London Mercury .
4 Very little to date seems to have been written about schema identification .
5 The family had obviously taken its name from the land-holding and at some stage this was likely to have been written as de Forstershey , or something very similar .
6 There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source .
7 The text stops with the death of Simon in 135 and is likely to have been written under his successor John Hyrcanus , that is , before 104 .
8 Similarly , this novel seems to have been written in reaction to Jacobson 's enforced designation as a ‘ comic novelist ’ : a sort of cross between Kingsley Amis , Tom Sharpe and Woody Allen .
9 An English Requiem is centred around one of the finest works to have been written in the past ten years .
10 The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses .
11 ‘ The whole journal appears to have been written in South Africa but he moved to Cape Province , and from later entries it seems he was in contact with Cecil Rhodes … ’
12 For the latter , however , he was able to draw on a set of annals which seems to have been written in Angers , to judge from the use of the Latin verb venire ( to come ) with reference to that city .
13 The following extract from the Preface of the Catalogus appears to have been written by one who had sound knowledge of the Chelsea Garden — almost certainly Philip Miller .
14 The Cambridge Theatre Company 's production of The Revengers Tragedy — a work believed by some to have been written by Thomas Middleton , others by Cyril Tourneur — opened this week at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford where it runs until tomorrow ( Saturday ) before transferring on its tour to the Theatre Royal , Winchester from Tuesday to Saturday next week .
15 This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings .
16 In fact , modern biblical scholars concur that the letter ascribed to Jude is of too late a date to have been written by any contemporary of Jesus .
17 The copious footnotes to the recipes in this book were believed by his contemporaries to have been written by Sir Walter Scott .
18 These papers were a series of articles published in 1787 and 1788 to persuade the citizens of New York to ratify the U.S. Constitution ; most of the papers were known to have been written by Hamilton or by Madison , but the authorship of twelve of them was disputed .
19 The Book of Cupid , his one surviving work , is a piece of sufficient merit to have been thought until the nineteenth century to have been written by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer [ q.v . ] .
20 In their second petition , which appears to have been written by Chidley , they justified their political activity on the basis of ‘ our creation in the image of God , and of an interest in Christ equal unto men , as also of a proportionable share in the freedoms of this commonwealth . ’
21 Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising .
22 It is found in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ( MS Digby 86 ) , that appears to have been written within the diocese of Worcester both for , and , arguably , by , a layman and is datable between the accession of Edward I in 1272 and the end of the eleventh year of his reign in November 1283 .
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