Example sentences of "to have [be] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An English Requiem is centred around one of the finest works to have been written in the past ten years . |
| 2 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 3 | The earliest record of Prague is supposed to have been documented in the 9th century . |
| 4 | The rate of fire decay behind the flame front depends to a large extent on fire loading , the physical state and thermal capacity of the fuel and does not appear to have been studied in the same depth . |
| 5 | Seven million dolphins are estimated to have been killed in the eastern tropical area of the Pacific since the 1950s . |
| 6 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 7 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 8 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 9 | Excavation has also uncovered the impressive rock-cut ditch of the Norman motte and bailey castle , believed to have been built in the 1080s . |
| 10 | A further 100 oil wells were reported to have been fired in the 24 hours prior to Bush 's ultimatum . |
| 11 | Elected to Congress for the state of Mississippi in 1986 , Espy , 39 , was the state 's only black legislator to have been elected in the 20th century . |
| 12 | The Berlin Wall is not the only boundary to have been breached in the past seven weeks , and who can say where the process will end ? |
| 13 | Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded . |
| 14 | I REFER to Coun Groves ' letter ( HAS March 9 ) concerning the so-called inaccurate statements reputed to have been made in the Labour Party leaflet in the run-up to the Willington East by-election . |
| 15 | Their studies have also led to some surprising conclusions concerning chronology : Jacopo Bellini 's Paris album they have argued , contrary to most of the literature , precedes the London album , which they date to 1460–70 ; they have been able to date Paolino Veneto 's Map of Venice in the Marciana Library precisely to around 1328 , when previously it was thought to have been made in the second half of the century . |
| 16 | To be forty she 'd have had to have been born in the nineteen seventies |
| 17 | He , too , in a more trivial way , seems to have been caught in the Greco-Roman spiral . |
| 18 | ‘ No , it does n't seem to have been reported in the national papers , just the local Kent newspaper . |
| 19 | They appear to have been settled in the seventh century in areas now known as Kosovo , Montenegro and Bosnia . |
| 20 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 21 | An estimated 1,600 rural workers and union leaders were reported to have been murdered in the Amazonian region over the last decade but this was the first time that any substantial landowner had been brought to trial . |
| 22 | In the first few years of marriage , before the decision to have a baby is made , reparative work is about intimate pairing and what was felt to have been betrayed in the first partnership of life with the main attachment figure . |
| 23 | Yet , the dangers of centralisation certainly seem to have been avoided in the main spending area , that of system engineering . |
| 24 | The Committee of Senior Officials ( CSO ) of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Prague on Nov. 5-6 , made public a specially commissioned report recommending the creation of an international tribunal to try war crimes alleged to have been committed in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina . |