Example sentences of "[verb] have [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | It does sound to me was there has to have been given a reason as to why the claim was rejected . |
2 | The following is an example of a typical clause : 1 In the event of a Manager ceasing to be either an employee or Director of the Company otherwise than by reason of dismissal , retirement [ redundancy ] [ or death ] , there shall be deemed to have been served a Transfer Notice in respect of his entire holding of shares [ NB : should be defined to include all shares held by family trusts or nominees ] and the price for such shares shall be the lower of cost and Market Value . |
3 | 2 In the event of the Manager ceasing to be an employee or Director of the Company as a result of dismissal or retirement [ or redundancy ] [ or death ] there shall be deemed to have been given a Transfer Notice in respect of his entire holding of shares and the price of such shares shall be : ( a ) if a dismissal or retirement [ or redundancy ] [ or death ] shall occur prior to … the lower of cost and Market Value ; or ( b ) if the dismissal or retirement [ or death ] shall occur at any time after … |
4 | Market Value ; 3 In the event of the death of a Manager there shall be deemed to have been given a Transfer Notice in respect of his entire holding of shares and the price of such shares shall be the higher of cost and Market Value . |
5 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
6 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |
7 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
8 | Dudley Ford had his suspicions and the police seemed to have been doing a pretty thorough job on him … but Doug Wilson believed that Shergold lacked the nerve and she was inclined to agree with him . |
9 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
10 | Waksman is said to have been shown a culture of tubercle bacilli which had been killed by a fungus in 1932 , but he was not tempted to pursue the implications of this observation . |
11 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
12 | KNOWSLEY UNITED have been handed a home draw against Nottinghamshire outfit Arnold Town when they open their FA Vase campaign in the second round a fortnight today . |
13 | He even claimed to have been reading a book on cybernetics at the time of the revolution , but his scholarly interests did not prevent him from amassing enormous wealth by the standards of his fellow citizens . |
14 | The contributors seem to have been given a clear brief to provide just enough context to introduce the paintings themselves , with special emphasis on distinguishing the styles of lesser masters , and many plates showing refreshingly unfamiliar works from recent London auctions , all perhaps with antique collectors in mind . |
15 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
16 | A brief review of the appearance of the disease in goats was given : the six premises on which cases were thought to have occurred have been given a choice , after being placed under restriction , of slaughtering their stock receiving ex gratia payments , or remaining restricted . |
17 | However , some in the Treasury are understood to have been recommending a base rate increase for some weeks on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence that the economy had cooled . |
18 | Fergie is understood to have been offered a lump sum and a handsome yearly allowance of around Pounds 150,000 but the sticking point now appears to be the extent of Andrew 's access to their two children Beatrice and Eugenie . |
19 | A company which pioneered a scheme to mark horses to stop them being stolen has been awarded a Royal warrant . |
20 | The top chasers have a habit of being able to give weight and a beating to their more humble rivals and although Barnbrook Again appears to have been given a stiff task in conceding 8lb to Rusch de Farges , his two runs already this season should give him the advantage . |
21 | He shaped well when fourth behind Tipping Tim at Cheltenham and appears to have been given an ideal build-up . |
22 | Also in the last months before the war Lloyd George appears to have been contemplating a more direct assault upon the Poor Law which had been almost unchanged by the Reports of the Royal Commission in February 1909 . |
23 | Mr Dunn is believed to have been enjoying a morning 's fun in the spring sunshine . |
24 | Mr Renaudat is believed to have been arranging a deal for a large supply of arms captured by Chad during the war with Libya to be sold to the Lebanese Christians , through intermediaries in Tunis and Iraq . |
25 | Would you prefer to have been born a man ? |
26 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
27 | Once again Saddam Hussein appeared to have been given an 11th-hour chance to stop the slaughter ; once again , the powerful American-led military coalition was crouched , set to pounce . |
28 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
29 | The Victorian block of flats where Christine Mills lived had been painted a dark green a decade ago and the wood of the frames now showed through in parts , black and rotten . |
30 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |