Example sentences of "[vb -s] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 2 | This ill-omened project appears to have been undertaken as a sort of consolation to the Tanganyika Masai after they suffered a series of land losses , to European settlers and to other tribes , in the late 1940s , when the Tanganyika government came under pressure to contribute to world food production . |
| 3 | Of the many Deeds performed by Hercules only one appears to have been recorded on a British beaker . |
| 4 | Our research is not complete , and your report appears to have been based on a brief article in a farming journal . |
| 5 | US business appears to have been locked into a pattern of low accumulation from which it proved difficult to escape even when the rising tide of competition began , in the sixties , to have a noticeable effect in the domestic US market . |
| 6 | The nexus appears to have been made for a sufficient number of the laity , as those who eventually voted in the referendum voted in favour of inscribing an appropriate anti-abortion clause in the constitution . |
| 7 | Structural studies of the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group have refined the understanding of the deformational history : the early episode of major slump folding identified previously now appears to have been followed by a period of upright folding that has been subsequently modified by south-directed thrusting . |
| 8 | Later the bell push rod appears to have been replaced by a cord in a tube , with the top of the cord tied to the handrail . |
| 9 | Cesar appears to have been destined for a clerical career from the start . |
| 10 | Here , the platform edge appears to have been controlled by a normal fault and the belt of shallow marine sediments is much narrower than elsewhere in the basin ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 11 | John Lewis died at the beginning of November 1761 , and Esther Lewis appears to have been left without a home . |
| 12 | the impact of the report appears to have been confined to a reduction of 6 per cent , to $ 68 million , in the allocation to the Agricultural Research Council ( ARC ) . |
| 13 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
| 14 | While at Messina , en route for the Holy Land , he seems to have been overcome by a sense of the wickedness of his life . |
| 15 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 16 | The potential advantage of early treatment in asymptomatic patients with advanced colorectal cancer seems to have been confirmed by a trial from the Nordic Gastrointestinal Tumor Adjuvant Therapy Group . |
| 17 | The trouble seems to have been based on a report by an Inspector of Schools . |
| 18 | As it turned out , it seems to have been inspired by a desire to bolster government policy rather than to make an objective assessment of the state of trees . |
| 19 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 20 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 21 | ‘ Traa de loor ’ , meaning time enough , is a favourite saying on the stress-free island which seems to have been trapped in a time-warp . |
| 22 | A slightly less elaborate statement is much cited in Australia : the applicant must satisfy the court ‘ that the witness is out of the jurisdiction of the court , that his evidence is material and that his attendance within the jurisdiction can not be procured ’ ; it seems to have been derived from a similar observation of Lindley L.J . |
| 23 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 24 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 25 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 26 | DEFENCE department detectives are investigating an attack on a man who claims to have been raped by a gang of drunken soldiers . |