Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pass a council estate and a forlorn shop which seems to have been carved into the ground level of the estate . |
| 2 | This restriction ensures that section 87 can not be exploited , that there will be no difficulty in identifying a genuine successor and that only bona fide claims to have been residing with the tenant shall succeed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 5 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 6 | The positive test is said to have been given after the Lievin race on 13 February which saw Narozhilenko , the world 100m hurdles champion in Tokyo in 1991 , begin an extraordinary record-breaking sequence at 60m hurdles . |
| 7 | A third secretary at the UK embassy was reported on July 21 to have been given until the end of the month to leave the country , accused of having " violated diplomatic norms " . |
| 8 | Conservatives believe revelation to have been given in the past , as do all Christians . |
| 9 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 10 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 11 | And for every tonne of gold at least twice as much mercury has thought to have been lost into the environment . |
| 12 | Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 15 | Drama , more than any of the other arts , became a popular pastime for young people which grew rapidly not just in quantity but also in standards , for the notion of training youth in drama seems to have been conceived from the beginning . |
| 16 | Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen . |
| 17 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 18 | I was alone on a mountain with an unpredictable and completely un-Yorkshire person who appeared to have been touched by the sun . |
| 19 | The conductor and pianist Myung Whun Chung , director of the Opéra-Bastille , writes : We have all been fortunate to have been touched by the spirit of Olivier Messiaen through his music and I , personally , also by his human qualities . |
| 20 | For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword . |
| 21 | However , it now seems to have been accepted by the RICS that the overseas experience of limited liability , together with that of UK land surveyors , livestock auctioneers and other companies , indicates that in practice the ethical problem may be overstated . |
| 22 | The Mirror Group — controlled by Mr Maxwell 's private companies — was to have been floated on the Stock Exchange next year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But the momentum of reducing waits of over two years does not seem to have been sustained beyond the election and might be partially offset by a rise in waits of between one and two years . |
| 25 | When Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud made a grant to Waltham an oral declaration seems to have been followed by the donor girding his sword round the image on a crucifix . |
| 26 | The £750,000 survey — in which 20,000 adults will be asked detailed questions about the frequency and nature of their sexual activities — was to have been funded by the Department of Health , the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 27 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 28 | And of course , being a composer , I think it would be very hard not to have been influenced by The Beatles . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |