Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |
| 2 | The great reason for the Church of England 's perishing , if it does , will be seen to have been a lack of such a vision . |
| 3 | Even the most innovatory feature of the Declaration — the proviso against keeping a standing army in peace-time without Parliamentary consent — can be seen to have been a Tory concern in James 's reign . |
| 4 | In winter , when the level in the canal would tend to be some three inches higher , then some water did splash over the sides of the tanks , but never at any time was the water emptied from the tanks to enable hauling to proceed.9 ; On this basis alone the lift must be judged to have been a technical success . |
| 5 | If the circumstances of this crime — that is the eating of the apple — are duly considered , it will be acknowledged to have been a most heinous offence and a transgression of the whole law . |
| 6 | Otherwise it will be presumed to have been a negligent one — Misrepresentation Act 1967 , section 2(1) . |
| 7 | Subsequently he is reported to have been a pupil of his cousin George Wilfred Anthony , a drawing master in Manchester , later a landscape painter and art critic ( as ‘ Gabriel Tinto ’ ) for the Manchester Guardian . |
| 8 | The environment is said to have been a lagoon , and the ‘ shrimp band ’ is thought to represent an episode of sudden flooding by the sea . |
| 9 | Its church ( 1457 ) was dedicated to Santa Catarina by Henrique Alemão — ‘ Henry the German ’ — who is said to have been a Polish king . |
| 10 | One of the most beautiful water-spirits known , Lorelei is said to have been a German girl who was unlucky in love and drowned herself as a result . |
| 11 | Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes . |
| 12 | Like its predecessor , Fonthill Abbey is said to have been a symmetrical building in Gothic disguise , while Vathek provides even less domestic detail than Otranto — the adjective , indeed , scarcely applies . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) The third defendant concealed from the plaintiffs what is said to have been a false and fraudulent over-valuation of the bakery made in June 1983 by another of the alleged conspirators in order to support an even higher level of loan by B.M.T. ( 5 ) On 24 June 1983 B.M.T. offered to lend C.M.C. £420,000 on the security of the bakery in substitution for its previous offer to lend £185,500 . |
| 14 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 15 | In 1275 he is said to have been a serious rival to the saintly Thomas de Cantelupe [ q.v. ] for the see of Hereford . |
| 16 | Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's connection with Amasya is more fully developed in Husameddin 's earlier where he is said to have been a fellow student of Hajji Shadgeldi 's ; to have become kadi in Amasya in 763/1361 when Hajji Shadgeldi took power ; to have been raised from the kadilik and the muderrislik of the Dar al- " ilm medrese to the kazaskerlik in/about 768/1366–7 ; and to have remained such until after Hajji Shadgeldi 's defeat and death in battle with Kadi Burhan al-Din in 783/1381 , whereupon Cemaleddin Aksarayi fled to Konya . |
| 17 | He is alleged to have been a key figure in virtually all aspects of the Guinness affair . |
| 18 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 19 | However , what is thought to have been a discarded movement , a Gavotte in B flat major , K.300 , survives in autograph ( PLATE V ) . |
| 20 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 21 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 22 | Believed to have crashed in October 1942 after a dogfight with a Luftwaffe fighter over occupied Normandy , the pilot is thought to have been a Fleet Air Arm Lieutenant . |
| 23 | A 1.8-metre-square platform in the south-east corner is thought to have been a bed . |
| 24 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 25 | Rhun is thought to have been a son of Urien of Rheged ( see above , p. 78 ) , and Oswiu 's marriage to Riemmelth may have cemented an alliance with the north British principality of Rheged as another important strand in the web of alliances which conspired to overthrow Eadwine . |
| 26 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 27 | And of all the single ticks that have come in , there 's bound to have been a decent one among them . |
| 28 | The Cave is reputed to have been a secret swimming place used by nuns . |
| 29 | Gunners striker Paul Merson is believed to have been a witness to the incident . |
| 30 | In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent . |