Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north .
2 Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising .
3 Indeed , Eanwulf 's connections with Hwiccian territory appear to have been considerable , for he founded the monastery of Bredon in Worcestershire , of which Offa was subsequently a patron ( CS 234 , 847 : S 117 ; CS 236 : S 116 ) but Offa 's family is not certainly known to have been related to the princes of the Hwicce .
4 Ultimately , 10 ( 6% ) patients from within the whole group had further surgery the nature of which seemed to have been influenced by the results of the test .
5 The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) .
6 ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’
7 In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters .
8 This seems to have been done in the interests of retaining the theoreticians ' assumption of panmixia ( Charlesworth , 1980 ) .
9 It is thought to have been built by the Earls of Ross in about 1590 and a new wing , including a brewhouse and bakery , added in 1623 .
10 Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile .
11 One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter .
12 At least 100,000 million yen were alleged to have been diverted to the Inagawa-kai , the second largest crime syndicate in Japan .
13 Above all , use was made of the great lake in front of the palace , the famous Étang des Carpes , where some of the fish were reputed to have been swimming since the days of Francis I. All sorts of pleasure boats were at the disposal of the guests , ranging from a Venetian gondola to a miniature frigate of the French navy — the latter the pride and joy of the Prince Imperial .
14 The Monument to the People 's Heroes , the stone obelisk in the middle of the square where student leaders had their ‘ command centre ’ , has been declared a forbidden zone because it is felt to have been contaminated by the students ' presence .
15 The patriarchs of that distant agrarian culture are supposed to have been motivated by the rights of farm animals to do what comes naturally to them .
16 Great victories could become legendary : Chlothar II 's defeat of the Saxons in the early seventh century is known to have been commemorated in the songs of washerwomen .
17 The CDU 's showing was thought to have been affected by the allegations against Bartoncik on the eve of the elections .
18 A breakthrough appeared to have been reached in the negotiations on June 26 when Bush revised his hitherto sacrosanct 1988 presidential campaign pledge not to increase taxes , and admitted that a budget agreement would have to include not only spending and entitlement cuts , but also " increased tax revenues " .
19 The levying of taxes in particular seems to have been based on the civitas .
20 No documentation relating to the changes has been produced , and no guidance on their potential effects appears to have been sought from the designers of the system .
21 The actual damage alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiffs may be an example of a kind or range of potential damage which was foreseeable , and if the act or omission by which the damage was caused is identifiable it may put one on the trail of a possible duty of care of which the act or omission would be a breach .
22 Hundreds of such works are known to have been destroyed by the Vikings during their raids on the Irish coast .
23 His choice of the army seems to have been inspired by the anecdotes of a nonagenarian great uncle who had been a veteran of the Grand Army .
24 Boucheron , who had been suspended from the PS at his own request in October 1990 , claimed to have been acting in the interests of the party .
25 Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline .
26 More than one treaty is known to have been made with the Burgundians , although some may not have had imperial approval .
27 The advance was to have been made during the hours of darkness and across country , keeping away from the roads and lanes .
28 The same sort of calculation seems to have been made by the producers of both Brief History and Soul , the recent BBC2 threeparter presented by Anthony Clare .
29 From it you can walk to Itxassou 's other half , which is clustered round the church , about a kilometre away and within sight of the defile known as the Pas de Roland , an opening in the rock said to have been made by the hoofs of this luckless paladin 's horse ( but more of Roland in the appropriate place , when we come to Roncevaux ) .
30 The main issues before the Appeal Court were the authenticity of confessions said to have been made by the defendants while under detention , and the conduct of the police .
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