Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Academic study of the members of the Conservative party at either national or local level has to date been almost entirely ignored . |
| 2 | If the family has decided on cremation , the undertaker will need a further form , so this decision needs to have been made prior to the visit to the Registrar . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money has to date been contributed by the private sector to city technology colleges . |
| 4 | The Airline Industry has to date been slower than others in exploring the benefits to be achieved in using AI technology . |
| 5 | For a genuine higher education to take place , research has to have been undertaken somewhere , upon which programmes of study will in part be based . |
| 6 | Equity seems to have been prominent in your career very early on . |
| 7 | After 1776 the instrument seems to have been removed altogether . |
| 8 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 9 | As the Victoria County History puts it , somewhat laconically , ‘ The chief result appears to have been an order given to the overseers to relieve ten more able-bodied families . ’ |
| 10 | The State Department appears to have been riven between ‘ Arabists ’ and the few analysts who , like Mr Teicher , considered that Israel might prove at least as valuable a strategic ally as Iran , Iraq or Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | More serious is the allegation that in these latter years Ghana was allowed to accumulate extravagant debts : an amount of £500 million is often quoted , though the true figure seems to have been about £120 million . |
| 12 | Editor , — The working party set up to make recommendations on a national standard of entry into general practice seems to have been unaware of European Community directive 86/457/EEC . |
| 13 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
| 14 | The advantages of such a close integration into the existing administration seems to have been obvious , as no doubt were those of a prominent site for a building which should be seen as the expression of a desire to give India a better government . |
| 15 | They have often been referred to as ’ Rehabilitated ’ cars or ‘ Ashfield rebuilds ’ , but neither term appears to have been recognized officially . |
| 16 | The term appears to have been fixed on the Minister 's personal whim . |
| 17 | John Dalton 's action seems to have been very near in time to the crisis in his own life when he was temporarily imprisoned for his support of the Earl of Lancaster . |
| 18 | It is almost as if the man assigned the task has been chosen by lot , except that the drawing seems to have been fixed . |
| 19 | His entire career in industry seems to have been a series of opportunities seized with relish . |
| 20 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 21 | But federal involvement in the case has been limited and little action appears to have been taken . |
| 22 | On a range of issues from river pollution to waste incineration at sea , from airport expansion to noxious exhaust emissions , the opposition seems to have been led by the non-British north-west Europeans , with the Germans to the fore . |
| 23 | In Clovis 's case the sharpness of the break seems to have been remarkable . |
| 24 | The fact that they had contentious articles written with a fearless pungency seems to have been due to his joint editorship of both . |
| 25 | Full though these are , they are not always very helpful — much of the chronicle material depends on hearsay , although the author of the Anonimalle Chronicle seems to have been an eye-witness of events in London or at least to have had access to some eye-witness account . |
| 26 | And yet religion seems to have been the only respectable profession open to a woman other than marriage and child-bearing . |
| 27 | But within its strait parameters his religion seems to have been genuine enough . |
| 28 | In data quoted by Langdon Brown , the condition appears to have been more common in summer months , and in June–July , 1862 , there were 148 deaths . |
| 29 | Tell the King that Mohamed Srifi 's only crime seems to have been the expression of his peaceful political views . |
| 30 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |