Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The club are honoured to have been associated with such a great player and his memory will live for ever around Upton Park . ’ |
| 2 | The few studies that have been undertaken have been carried out from a management perspective in terms of stock management or to quantity overall use of library , materials apart from items recorded in circulation statistics . |
| 3 | According to B.F. Skinner , " Education is what survives when what has been taught has been forgotten " ( " Education in 1984 " , see Suggestions for further reading at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 4 | The 55 courses from which completed questionnaires have been received had been sent 923 questionnaires . |
| 5 | Copies of letters which have already been received have been sent to the Department of the Environment and to the Appellant . |
| 6 | ‘ Coping with stress ’ books often offer people a prescription : lots of techniques and good advice that are claimed to have been tried and tested and of proven value to all . |
| 7 | Yet when viewed from the ‘ outside ’ , the ‘ deviance ’ that such acts are deemed to possess is assured only by virtue of a community 's orientation to them as wrong , immoral , evil , etc . |
| 8 | Service by post of documents , other than of originating process , which will obviously be documents served subsequent to the originating process , are deemed to have been served and received if sent by post to the " address for service " , which is defined in Ord 1 , r 3 . |
| 9 | If your employer fails to renew a fixed-term contract , you are deemed to have been dismissed in law . |
| 10 | If the building is designed and constructed according to the recommendations of BS 5810 , the requirements of Part R are deemed to have been met . |
| 11 | The proposals , supported by the lead banks , are reported to have been sent to all 82 financial institutions for detailed consideration . |
| 12 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 13 | Abroad three foreign journalists including a Briton are reported to have been killed by sniper fire in the Somali capital Mogadishou . |
| 14 | Although completed and ready to fly in October 1945 ( when short hops are reported to have been undertaken ) it did not officially fly until April 24 , 1946 on which date the other Soviet jet , the MiG–9 , also took to the air shortly before the Yak . |
| 15 | Since October 1982 more than 800 protesters are reported to have been arrested on false charges and many have been tortured , according to Survival International . |
| 16 | Traders are reported to have been stockpiling the horns in the hope of higher prices should rhinos become extinct . |
| 17 | The RAF Museum are reported to have been ear-marked XV424 . |
| 18 | Dozens of people are reported to have been tortured while held incommunicado in prolonged garde à vue detention by the Tunisian police since January 1991 . |
| 19 | A number are reported to have been smuggled out of Ireland during the period of the Viking depredations , and brought to safety in Welsh monasteries . |
| 20 | He had fully intended to tell her exactly what he thought of her disgraceful conduct , for he had no doubt at all that what had been done had been done deliberately . |
| 21 | ‘ I know it 's hard to accept , Dawn , but all that could have been done has been done . |
| 22 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 23 | What I am seeking to do is to outline a model of language use . |
| 24 | I accept that the unemployment figures this month are disappointing — no one can deny that — but what we are seeking to do is to put people back into permanent jobs , and not temporary jobs . |
| 25 | Pre-emptive analgesia has , indeed , been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies . |
| 26 | ‘ To quote Pilate , My Lady , what has been written has been written . ’ |
| 27 | And , most importantly , something has been seen to have been done . |
| 28 | Originally , the Seychelles kestrels nested in holes in the mountain crags but are said to have been ousted from that habitat by barn owls which were introduced to try and control the rat population . |
| 29 | Company fleet buyers are said to have been holding back , pondering the result of a value added tax case that removed obstacles in the way of offering cash rather than the car perk . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |