Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often assumed to have been lost during World War II , East Berlin 's historical research archives , like its art collections , have actually survived in remarkable completeness . |
| 2 | Very little to date seems to have been written about schema identification . |
| 3 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 4 | Abroad three foreign journalists including a Briton are reported to have been killed by sniper fire in the Somali capital Mogadishou . |
| 5 | Sharks , killer whales , and false killer whales are believed to present some threat to dolphins - scar marks thought to have been caused by shark attack have been observed . |
| 6 | They have also suffered disease believed to have been exacerbated by water pollution . |
| 7 | A conservative estimate is that power must have grown by about 30bhp ; in any case , this figure is likely to be overtaken soon when the four-valve cylinder heads known to have been developed by sister company Cosworth are installed in the car . |
| 8 | They seemed to have been stumbling through pitch blackness for hours now . |
| 9 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 10 | His foresight in writing this was valuable , for the Golf Illustrated article was likely to have been taken at face value owing to the absence of any information to the contrary ! |
| 11 | Well , nothing is real , we are fortunate to have been reminded by Candy Flip , so who was that quote referring to ? |
| 12 | This would appear to have more promising implications for ‘ free living ’ observations but most of Fouts ' research on Lucy seems to have been directed towards syntax formation ; without conspicuous success ( Walker 1983 : . |
| 13 | This term would appear to have been introduced into Community parlance in the European Parliament 's Draft Treaty on European Union in 1984 , and is already familiar in the context of the 1989 Social Charter . |
| 14 | He enclosed an account of the most troublesome weeds in Pennsylvania , most of them ‘ imported ’ from Europe , including the Scotch Thistle , believed to have been spread from mattress stuffing . |