Example sentences of "[vb base] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 2 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 3 | To achieve commendably rapid publication the author 's original typescripts appear to have been reproduced with a mix of typography and some English which would have benefited from editorial attention . |
| 4 | This consisted of a carefully buried wooden box containing a collection of bronzes which appear to have been associated with a religious site . |
| 5 | The rioters appear to have been drawn from a broad cross-section of London society : the majority were wage-earners , small craftsmen and tradesmen , although there was an appreciable " white collar " or professional element , and even some gentlemen rioters . |
| 6 | But in Washington these overtures , which happen to have been delivered in a thoroughly unorthodox way , are being sniffed at most gingerly . |
| 7 | The texts seem to have been composed as a result of work in and on language . |
| 8 | The body and the upper stand seem to have been made in a single casting . |
| 9 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 10 | Iraq 's shareholdings in America seem to have been restricted to a machine-tool firm in Ohio and an engineering consultancy in California . |
| 11 | Some seem to have been rebuilt on a larger scale , presumably to cater for a more centralised population ; an example may be Wharram Percy in Yorkshire . |
| 12 | True , some plates seem to have been designed as a reminder , sometimes polite , sometimes far from it , that the volume has strayed from its proper home . |