Example sentences of "[vb base] to have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 2 | This is not to suggest that all the anti-Hanoverian crowds were encouraged from above ; as Nicholas Rogers has shown , patrician involvement seems to have become less common after the early stages of unrest , and increasingly the riots in most areas appear to have been led from below by more lowly types . |
| 3 | Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and . |
| 4 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 5 | The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled . |
| 6 | ‘ The minds of many of these young offenders appear to have been numbed by greed and indifference to violence ’ , asserted one MP as he condemned ‘ the parents , indifferent to their children and utterly without social conscience ’ . |
| 7 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 8 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 9 | Nevertheless great advances appear to have been made without such theory … |
| 10 | Detailed estimates of the costs of improvement of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , including wide locks at Foxton and Watford appear to have been made in 1888 , and these indicated a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 11 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 12 | These conclusions appear to have been replicated by York ( 1989 ) , who finds that community workers express more satisfaction and effectiveness in their short-term projects , which are more directive and task-oriented , than in their long-term projects . |
| 13 | The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) . |
| 14 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 15 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 16 | Only the sediments of the carbonate mud wedges appear to have been affected by late leaching because of their proximity to organic-rich basin plain deposits . |
| 17 | Their reputations as major artists appear to have been confirmed by their strong showing ( see captions ) . |
| 18 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
| 19 | Hopes of getting an inquiry appear to have been dashed in 1979 when Britain offered its £100 million and gave the Sri-Lankan government the confidence to sweep aside any objections . |
| 20 | The riots appear to have been precipitated by an apparently casual incident when a Meskhetian angrily tipped over a table of strawberries being sold by an Uzbek girl . |
| 21 | The analyses support the idea that the relocation of farms occurred quite frequently , with a considerable horizon of shifting settlement taking place in the 100 years around AD 700 , for nearly all early Anglo-Saxon settlements appear to have been abandoned during that period . |
| 22 | In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act . |
| 23 | But in the meantime , in a week when Irish singles appear to have been released by the crateload , the ‘ Uncertain ’ EP is the real trophy . |
| 24 | At a time when nursing and health care is subject to much change , both professionally and politically determined , it is a pity that these elections appear to have been organised with little concern for the democratic process . |
| 25 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 26 | In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the number of committed Jacobites in Parliament , although greater than at any other time in Anne 's reign , was still a small minority , and most Tories appear to have been committed to the Hanoverian Succession , though with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |
| 28 | The techniques it deals with appear to have been imported from Hong Kong . |
| 29 | So unflattering are they , their subjects appear to have been caught off guard . |
| 30 | SCIENTISTS have launched an investigation into the fate of partridges which appear to have been harmed by the increasing amount of land being set aside by farmers and allowed to lie fallow . |