Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their backpacks are believed to have been seen on a dump . |
| 2 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
| 3 | The Mirror Group — controlled by Mr Maxwell 's private companies — was to have been floated on the Stock Exchange next year . |
| 4 | He seems to have been hit on the head . |
| 5 | Most managers are happier with numbers and measurements than qualitative judgements , and there is , certainly , some risk that a small-scale piece of research will turn out to have been done on a sample of people who are rather atypical of the desired target audience as a whole . |
| 6 | From then onwards , indeed for a good many years , nothing more appears to have been done on the Coniston Manor . |
| 7 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 8 | Any notice direction or communication given hereunder by one party to the other if sent by post to the last known place of business of the other party shall be deemed to have been served on the date when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the other party . |
| 9 | The term appears to have been fixed on the Minister 's personal whim . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 12 | The exercise was to have been based on a scenario involving a breakdown in Sino-British relations and an incursion by Chinese troops . |
| 13 | A strong case could be made for the boundary of the new province to have been based on a line from the Humber to the Bristol Channel , probably following the lower Severn , the Warwickshire Avon and the Trent . |
| 14 | The trouble seems to have been based on a report by an Inspector of Schools . |
| 15 | For example , in the case of the West Midlands RMC , which was originally planned to have consisted of North Staffordshire and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , it is now based only on the former ; and , in contrast , the London RMC , which was originally to have been based on the Polytechnic of Central London , now encompasses five additional institutions . |
| 16 | The War Office had therefore designed a structure which , from its general appearance and use , looked to have been based on the idea of a boy 's Meccano . |
| 17 | The levying of taxes in particular seems to have been based on the civitas . |
| 18 | The decision to locate an assembly plant at Kalmar was made in 1971 and seems to have been based on the need to expand the production facilities . |
| 19 | For instance , Hickey includes many conversational passages that purport to be verbatim records , but must be reconstructions of what Hickey thought was appropriate to have been said on the occasion . |
| 20 | A vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up , Black Hornet would appear to have been developed on the Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit and tweaked for commercial release . |
| 21 | The great majority of Krupp 's skilled men , and indeed of all German machine-building enterprises , seem to have been trained on the job in this way . |
| 22 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 23 | No formal time limit appeared to have been set on the US military presence , although Bush was reported on Dec. 4 as saying that he wanted the troops out by Jan. 20 , 1993 , when he was due to leave office . |
| 24 | The same gift — of turning thrice when the cock crows — was said to have been bestowed on a rock in Looe harbour which formerly stood on another , elevated rock nearby . |
| 25 | That is a large number of people in those two areas to have been entered on the computer . |
| 26 | And police in Jersey are examining what they believe may be the remains of Nicholas and Elizabeth who are believed to have been murdered on the island six years ago . |
| 27 | Service is deemed to have been effected on the date of the certificate ( Ord 7 , r 11 ) . |
| 28 | But a report prepared by a technical committee on constitutional issues , which was to have been discussed on the morning of the arrests , emphasised that significant differences of detail and approach had still to be resolved . |
| 29 | The incubation period may be up to one year , and this makes it difficult in many cases to decide from whom the warts have been caught ; not only that , but they often seem to have been seeded on the principle adhered to by market gardeners , to give successive crops over a long period . |
| 30 | A successive fixed date summons is deemed to have been issued on the date of the original summons ( Ord 7 , r 19(3) ) . |