Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has to have been explained to you on the phone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It does sound to me was there has to have been given a reason as to why the claim was rejected . |
| 4 | Every contact I 've ever had with Florian has to have been to do with sex — ’ |
| 5 | Whatever it is , it needs to have been thrashed out endlessly with the top leadership of the business and to be able to be expressed in a single , understandable , clear and unambiguous sentence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 8 | The the spell that er Forest had straight after the interval looks to have been weathered . |
| 9 | Vittorio Mezzogiorno 's Arjuna looks to have been sculpted out of rock until his moment of Hamlet-like irreso-lution before the great battle . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) A document which bears to have been executed by the Funding Council in accordance with sub-paragraph ( 2 ) above shall , in relation to such execution , be a probative document if the subscription of the document bears to have been attested by at least one witness . |
| 11 | The reader can thus be aware that a writer may have written round what happens to have been offered . |
| 12 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 13 | A much more radical proposal was under active consideration ( Home Office , 1999d ) shortly before the guide-lines were issued , though this appears to have been shelved for the time being . |
| 14 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 15 | However , the overture also appears to have been motivated by economic considerations . |
| 16 | The sword appears to have been to defend the Holy Church , the sceptre to signify royal power and the rod to symbolize virtue and equity . |
| 17 | This ill-omened project appears to have been undertaken as a sort of consolation to the Tanganyika Masai after they suffered a series of land losses , to European settlers and to other tribes , in the late 1940s , when the Tanganyika government came under pressure to contribute to world food production . |
| 18 | That this energy under its various names appears to have been recognized in diverse cultures yet be almost totally ignored by orthodox science is in itself very interesting . |
| 19 | They have often been referred to as ’ Rehabilitated ’ cars or ‘ Ashfield rebuilds ’ , but neither term appears to have been recognized officially . |
| 20 | This linen cloth , some 4.25 m in length , bears the shadowy image of the front and back of a man who appears to have been scourged and crucified , and it is therefore believed to have been Christ 's burial shroud . |
| 21 | Any remaining intergranular porosity that escaped vadose compaction appears to have been occluded by early cementation ( Fig. 16d ) . |
| 22 | Of the many Deeds performed by Hercules only one appears to have been recorded on a British beaker . |
| 23 | Although listed as present , Councillor B. Watts appears to have been silenced somehow and even the Mayor 's declared refusal to explain why the land might not be available to the Council appears to pass without his reaction . |
| 24 | Innocent 's chancery — which was to bear quite a heavy weight of governmental responsibility during the pontificate — appears to have been run personally and autocratically by the pope . |
| 25 | ‘ Saturday 's situation appears to have been caused because people delayed before going out into the rain . ’ |
| 26 | Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops . |
| 27 | The blast appears to have been timed to coincide with a political offensive . |
| 28 | Mr Arun Nehru , cousin of the last prime minister and a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty , appears to have been marginalised . |
| 29 | Cadwallon has gathered a victorious host and appears to have been encamped on Môn ( Anglesey ) with a fleet nearby . |
| 30 | The environment of the dryopithecins appears to have been forested . |