Example sentences of "[verb] have been [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries often appear to have been uncertain as to how best to describe the political structure of their day . |
| 2 | The army authorities appear to have been afraid that they would intervene to prevent the arrest of the paramilitary officers and mounted a special operation by 43 Royal Marine Commando to arrest them also . |
| 3 | Their office blocks appear to have been symmetrical and , as The Saturday remarked , based on the architecture of fourteenth-century Flemish Town Halls ; ‘ very picturesque and well massed up , albeit a little slight in parts , particularly the towers ’ . |
| 4 | The House Committee published a cumulative index of names and organizations and there was the Attorney General 's list of about two hundred organizations which were considered to have been Communist or Communist Front . |
| 5 | In the event , the election was considered to have been free and orderly because the party most openly opposed to military rule , the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , won some 80 per cent of seats in the new Assembly . |
| 6 | Assad was reported to have been disappointed when a meeting of the Damascus Declaration signatories scheduled for March in Qatar had been postponed until May . |
| 7 | Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack . |
| 8 | One of his wives is reported to have been Jewish and , by implication , Nazarean . |
| 9 | However , as McKendrick has pointed out , increased spending on a greater volume and range of consumer goods does not need to have been general or even typical . |
| 10 | And you must understand : to appreciate the pessimism I feel today you would need to have been present when I formed the optimism. , |
| 11 | tell me what it means , you 've got some secondary school type words there as well it says has been co-operative and helpful in the classroom . |
| 12 | The ash bodies and maple necks are sprayed in Italy , and while most examples I 've seen have been black or white , there 's no telling what other colours might come forth at some point ( Fender-type metallics would look awesome ) . |
| 13 | For neither of them did the medication appear to have been helpful and , in collaboration with their general practitioner , it was therefore stopped . |
| 14 | Such a condition was obviously inserted to encourage Cornishmen to make their contributions to the royal coffers , but its enforcement against individual landowners would appear to have been impracticable once disafforestment had taken place . |
| 15 | Diana is said to have been upset and angered by phone calls between Camilla and Charles . |
| 16 | He is said to have been tall and handsome , a brave warrior and a good speaker . |
| 17 | President Lech Walesa was said to have been astonished and upset by Kolodziejczyk 's retirement which was seen by observers as an indication of tension between Olszewski and Walesa , who had initially opposed the formation of the Olszewski government . |
| 18 | At that , some apprentices , whom I judged to have been well-primed and well-paid for their services , set up a feeble shout . |
| 19 | Having it done had been painful and quite expensive . |
| 20 | Following weeks of arguments , which had gradually become more and more bitter , the crunch when it came had been swift and brutal . |
| 21 | The price at which timber for building is bought has been higher than it need be and the amount much smaller for two reasons : Government buying and Government decisions . |
| 22 | All these groups seem to have been nomadic or partly so . |
| 23 | His early relationships with women seem to have been unsatisfactory and disappointing , and faced with the knowledge that his reading in philosophy and contemporary scientific thought was eroding his Christian faith , he began to feel lonely and isolated . |
| 24 | It is curious , however , that jurists seem to have been slow and cautious in proposing new wordings . |
| 25 | State department officials seem to have been concerned that the conference would deflect attention from their own campaign to expose the alleged use of mycotoxins by Vietnam in Laos and Kampuchea . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , let's say the James Worsdale I know has been dead that long , ’ he said apologetically . |
| 27 | The justices were , therefore , right to conclude that the conditions they imposed had been necessary and lawful . |
| 28 | The chief marshal notified to the police appears to have been inexperienced and relatively ineffective . |
| 29 | He appears to have been pleased that someone was fostering the substance which so interested him , and went away with a sample of Oxford material , which was more potent than any he had himself prepared . |
| 30 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |