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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A company which pioneered a scheme to mark horses to stop them being stolen has been awarded a Royal warrant . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr Dunn is believed to have been enjoying a morning 's fun in the spring sunshine . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Would you prefer to have been born a man ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |
| 25 | A third person may resent the waste of money and prefer to have been given a bonus to spend as he wishes . |
| 26 | Here guests were greeted by the Chairman of the British Branch of the organisation Mr Tim Hart and Mrs Hart ; they are the proprietors of the superb Hambleton Hall on Rutland Water ; Mr and Mrs Martin Skan , owners of the Chewton Glen Hotel , in Hampshire ; and a director and the general manager of Claridge 's Mr Ronald Jones , who was delighted that Claridge 's had been elected a new member with the top award of a purple shield , denoting the splendour of a palace , with exceptional service . |
| 27 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 28 | With the New Year legislation , many drivers have have been making a New Year resolution to steer clear of trouble . |