Example sentences of "[vb pp] to have be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Somali gunmen were reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded the same day in an attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu , and there were further reported incidents of continuing instability in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 2 | The United States carrier Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) ceased operations on Dec. 4 after facing heavy financial losses ; an estimated 10,000 of the airline 's employees were reported to have been made redundant . |
| 3 | All of Kuwait 's 950 producing oil wells were reported to have been set ablaze or damaged . |
| 4 | Beatriz Villamizar , one of the journalists , was reported to have been set free by the cartel in the capital Bogotá on Feb. 5 . |
| 5 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 6 | On March 8 the " commercial " border with Argentina was reported to have been closed due to a " massive increase " in smuggling . |
| 7 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 8 | The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish . |
| 9 | This of course was a common point of view but none the less irritating because we were nearly all conscripted at this stage of the war and would have preferred to have been left alone to get on with our nice , comfortable civilian lives in peace . |
| 10 | But the bust-up between model Rebecca and gym boss Damon is thought to have been kept secret from former Test ace Freddie — just like their marriage . |
| 11 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 12 | The others acknowledged us cheerily , clearly relieved to have been allowed 30 seconds for a sit-down . |
| 13 | Once the envelope is known to have been slit open , an explanation from the recipient may be required . |
| 14 | It was mounted on four solid tyred wheels and is believed to have been painted dark blue . |
| 15 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 16 | Relief officials in Tehran said that 60,000 had been injured , and hundreds of thousands were believed to have been left homeless . |
| 17 | Mr Li is believed to have been criticised last year by China 's senior leader , Deng Xiaoping , for his caution on the economy . |
| 18 | Detectives say it could be another six weeks before they can formally identify the body of a woman believed to have been murdered twenty years ago . |
| 19 | In 1945 some of the boxes in which the treasures of the conventual church of St Servatius had been stored were discovered to have been broken open , and twelve of the precious objects were missing . |
| 20 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |