Example sentences of "[vb past] have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The pair pretended to have been robbed of precious stones , by strangers , at gunpoint . ’ |
| 2 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 3 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 4 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 5 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 6 | The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more . |
| 7 | Most of the attacks were near main roads , and the original police hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from one enclosed pasture to another ; then several horses seemed to have been assaulted in different places at the same time , although this is not certain . |
| 8 | Despite his chosen role as a small-town shopkeeper he seemed to have been accepted on equal terms by talented cosmopolitans … |
| 9 | I found that my grasp on the image itself was now hazy , the very mechanisms of my mind seemed to have been injected with lobal anaesthetic , blown up into a fuzzy ineptitude . |
| 10 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 11 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 12 | Dorigo had a great game , I thought , but all too often seemed to have been left in sole command of the entire left side of the pitch — every time he went forward alone , large gaps appeared behind him , and the gaps were frequently filled by the ball and Sunderland players . |
| 13 | He was ultimately responsible for the emptying of the city , the forced labour in the countryside , the persecution of anyone judged to have been tainted by foreign influences , and the bloody purges of Khmer Rouge cadres suspected of being ‘ Vietnamese traitors ’ . |
| 14 | Both the branches studied had been influenced by this political directive . |
| 15 | DUNDEE UNITED have been invited to Central America to face Costa Rica , the dark horses in Scotland 's group in the World Cup finals . |
| 16 | As always when he felt deserted , he went to see Chester Klein , patron of the arts by diverse hands , a man who claimed to have been excised by fretful lawyers from more biographies than any other man since Byron . |
| 17 | The charges arose from a sexual encounter between Smith and Patricia Bowman in March 1991 [ see p. 38139 ] , which he claimed had been based upon mutual consent . |
| 18 | I note the circles in wheat-fields , alleged to have been caused by extra-terrestrial visitors , are again in the news . |
| 19 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 20 | In Exeter the wool staplers moved quickly in 1787 to imprison some striking wool sorters who were seeking to advance their wages , but at several other times since the statute they employed had been enacted in 1726 , they had conceded advances sought by their journeymen . |
| 21 | My expectations from analogy with the past , like a dog 's , are sometimes realized , sometimes disappointed ; if the mechanism were not often effective it would not as it evolved have been spared by natural selection ; but I , as a rational being , want to be able to judge when it is reliable . |
| 22 | It looked to have been wasted for good in 1990 when , after struggling to overcome injuries and failing exams , he packed up and returned home to Teesside . |
| 23 | Finally , that was in a general way an instrument of state policy , in this case one felt to have been used for ill , is indicated by one of the several criticisms made of Bayezid I 's Grand Vezir Candarli Ali Pasa in the early histories . |
| 24 | Further inquiries were now being made and the substance seized had been sent for scientific analysis . |
| 25 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
| 26 | Pitt-Rivers studied the processes involved when ditches were abandoned and silted up , and the broad conclusions that he reached have been verified by later experiments . |
| 27 | ( People who had been in a hospital for all the year before they died have been excluded from these comparisons . ) |
| 28 | Although the precise aims and composition of RARA remained unclear , the organization appeared to have been formed in 1986 to protest against the " criminal policies " of the Netherlands authorities towards asylum seekers . |
| 29 | Merchant Navy Minister Carlo Vizzini said on April 11 that an official inquiry would start immediately and that the accident appeared to have been caused by human error . |
| 30 | They appeared to have been collected without any method : Wordsworth , Mae West , Saint-Simon , geniuses , criminals , saints , nonentities . |