Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 2 | The earlier text is believed to have been written originally in Syriac and to have been found at a Christian monastery in Khuzistan , south-west Iran , near the Iraqi border . |
| 3 | MARK HATELEY breathed life into Rangers ' European Cup challenge last night , just as their hopes seemed to have been killed off by Marseille 's foreign legion . |
| 4 | The concept seems to have been killed off by Sutcliffe v Thackrah ( cited at 14.6.4 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ In this area angling seems to have been lumped together with bloodsports and some members of these councils vote automatically against anything that could benefit local fishing . |
| 6 | Again , tiger teeth found in Bornean caves are believed to have been placed there by man and not to indicate the former presence of the animal on that island . |
| 7 | Communications with Tamiami Airport and with WAM were not re-established as FlyPast went to press , but Susy Q , the WAM B–17 , is thought to have been blown over on top of the A–26 Invader and/or B–23 Dragon that were also stored outside the WAM hangar . |
| 8 | But windows were reported to have been blown out in homes more than 1,000 yards away . |
| 9 | The movement 's much-feared " sparrow " units , urban guerrillas specializing in assassinations , were also thought to have been weakened significantly through arrests and the degeneration of some units into criminality . |
| 10 | Until very recently , supporters of animal protection or environmental causes appear to have been motivated primarily by feelings of empathy , sympathy or personal identification with animals , especially large , appealing and anthropomorphic animals . |
| 11 | The same batsman seemed to have been run out by bowler Lewis when 30 . |
| 12 | But the fact that part of de Gaulle 's prediction seems , more than two decades later , to have been borne out by events is only a partial defence of his policies — unless one subscribes to the view of his critics that he was more interested in being vindicated by posterity than in achieving results in his lifetime . |
| 13 | A joint French-Greek research team 's claims to have developed technology which eliminates 90 per cent of particulates emitted by diesel bus engines appear to have been borne out in tests on 110 buses in Athens . |
| 14 | The first supplies of aid to have been taken in to Bosnia by British army trucks have arrived safely at their destination . |
| 15 | One level is believed to have been taken in along Belman 's Hole Vein just below its outcrop . |
| 16 | Actually , a friend of mine who was once in the TA had a pal called George who claimed to have been spirited away to Venus in a UFO . |
| 17 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |
| 18 | This appears to have been known locally as Cinderford Mill , although it is more widely remembered as Brights Corn Mill , the last miller being Samuel Bright . |
| 19 | Col. Elias Tutsoane Ramaema was reported by Radio Lesotho on May 2 to have been sworn in as Chairman of the ruling Military Council , following the overthrow of Maj.-Gen. |
| 20 | A number are reported to have been smuggled out of Ireland during the period of the Viking depredations , and brought to safety in Welsh monasteries . |
| 21 | Remains of glass working , bell making and bronze working have been found in the layers immediately preceding the building of the church , while the foundations appear to have been laid directly on top of a demolished Roman monumental building . |
| 22 | At one of these city assemblies Mortimer delivered an address which is thought to have been aimed primarily at Edward 's episcopal supporters — Melton , Reynolds , Hethe and others — who were cowed into swearing before the massed Londoners ( whose violence had already been demonstrated against Stapledon ) to uphold the queen 's cause and the liberties of London : thirteen bishops , some notable abbots and two dozen other clergy took the oath that day . |
| 23 | The uni-processor will deliver a reported 125 SPECmarks at 150MHz , come with 64Mb to 1Gb RAM , 3D graphics , six turbo channel slots and run OpenVMS — OSF/1 now appears to have been put back until July next year ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 24 | It had hoped that under 100 of its 360 staff would lose their jobs , hoped that many would stay in work as employees of Kontrax 's 15 dealers , which were wholly-owned but were to have been sold off as franchises under the scheme . |
| 25 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 26 | No comparable breeding experiments appear to have been carried out with N. lapillus , which takes much longer to reach maturity . |
| 27 | In this interview , said to have been carried out in Kurdistan last January , she outlines the difficulties in getting resources through . |
| 28 | Because of ( 1 ) re-programming would need to have been carried out in Bristol . |
| 29 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 30 | The DUC condemned the sabotage , which was widely believed to have been carried out by militants from outside the local area . |