Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtis was staring at the bloodstained shirt , ‘ I suppose it has to have been a firearm , sir ? ’ |
| 2 | Burstall and Kay report that in the case of NAEP early opposition from teacher unions was partly based upon fear of a backwash effect and , indeed , it appears to have been a worry for those involved with setting up the APU testing programme . |
| 3 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 4 | I wish only to comment that , in extradition cases , it appears to have been the practice , at least since Rex v. Zossenheim ( 1903 ) 20 T.L.R. 121 , that the magistrate , when deciding whether to commit , will take account not only of evidence tendered on behalf of the requesting state , but also of evidence given on behalf of the accused . |
| 5 | Scaevola replies that it appears to have been the testator 's intention that Seius should be released by the trust from all his obligations . |
| 6 | It seems to have been a case of mistaken identity . ’ |
| 7 | Dated to the second half of the second century , it seems to have been a tannery and leather workshop , and is not only one of the few reliable instances yet found for this industry , but is also one of the few industries attested at Alcester . |
| 8 | For Richard it seems to have been a period of reconciliation : with Sebrand Chabot , who was allowed to return to his see in April 1180 , and with Aimar of Limoges , who arrived back at Christmas of the same year . |
| 9 | For these women it seems to have been a breath of pure oxygen , heady with proposals for socialist-feminist action , at a time when Kinnockism is attempting to kill it off . |
| 10 | It seems to have been a religion that was in transition , which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions . |
| 11 | It seems to have been a fact , as Jarvis 's mother pointed out , that no girl from Cambridge School , NW6 , had ever got to any university , let alone Cambridge . |
| 12 | Yet it seems to have been the realisation of what the Hanoverian succession would mean — namely Whig supremacy — which provoked the disturbances . |
| 13 | It seems to have been the case that attempts to defend their interests by knitters , wool and cotton workers met with a much greater degree of hostility from masters and magistrates than did those made by urban artisans . |
| 14 | " It seems to have been an edifice of remote antiquity , and is built of rough stones , and was in my memory , in a ruinated condition without roof and timbers , but has now , for some years past been converted into a workshop and dwelling house inhabited by a wheelwright . |
| 15 | For instance , she helped by letter a Lancashire mill lad seeking advice on the use of his few square feet of soil ( it seems to have been an attic window box in Rochdale ) and followed this up with a postal package of plants , bulbs , and pebbles to complete his project . |
| 16 | If it proves to have been a mistake this entrepreneur himself will be under market pressure to abandon this line of production . |
| 17 | Even in the case of a regular wage-earner or salaried employee , there might be complications ; for example , the plaintiff might claim that he would have been promoted to a more remunerative post ( in which case the court must assess his prospects of promotion and award damages accordingly ) or the defendant may claim that the plaintiff 's employer had suffered severe business setbacks that necessitated redundancies and that the plaintiff would have lost his employment ( in which case the court must consider all the circumstances and award as damages what it estimates to have been the plaintiff 's net loss ) . |
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