Example sentences of "to have [been] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 We pass a council estate and a forlorn shop which seems to have been carved into the ground level of the estate .
2 This restriction ensures that section 87 can not be exploited , that there will be no difficulty in identifying a genuine successor and that only bona fide claims to have been residing with the tenant shall succeed .
3 The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north .
4 Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus .
5 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided .
6 The positive test is said to have been given after the Lievin race on 13 February which saw Narozhilenko , the world 100m hurdles champion in Tokyo in 1991 , begin an extraordinary record-breaking sequence at 60m hurdles .
7 A third secretary at the UK embassy was reported on July 21 to have been given until the end of the month to leave the country , accused of having " violated diplomatic norms " .
8 Conservatives believe revelation to have been given in the past , as do all Christians .
9 Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by .
10 A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast .
11 And for every tonne of gold at least twice as much mercury has thought to have been lost into the environment .
12 There has been a change in the approach of local government to compulsory competitive tendering , but it appears to have been lost on the Labour party .
13 An English Requiem is centred around one of the finest works to have been written in the past ten years .
14 The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses .
15 Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising .
16 It is found in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ( MS Digby 86 ) , that appears to have been written within the diocese of Worcester both for , and , arguably , by , a layman and is datable between the accession of Edward I in 1272 and the end of the eleventh year of his reign in November 1283 .
17 We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable .
18 Drama , more than any of the other arts , became a popular pastime for young people which grew rapidly not just in quantity but also in standards , for the notion of training youth in drama seems to have been conceived from the beginning .
19 Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen .
20 When they finally appear , they turn out — in what for this play amounts to a considerable comic twist — to have been fitted with the wrong plug .
21 He believed the woman to have been connected to the attainted Deveril family ; the motto on the dog collar could not be dismissed as a coincidence .
22 Thus the data for this e.p.s.p. are very unlikely to have been generated from the smooth distribution , but are more typical of samples drawn from the quantal simple binomial generator .
23 In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether .
24 The conductor and pianist Myung Whun Chung , director of the Opéra-Bastille , writes : We have all been fortunate to have been touched by the spirit of Olivier Messiaen through his music and I , personally , also by his human qualities .
25 I was alone on a mountain with an unpredictable and completely un-Yorkshire person who appeared to have been touched by the sun .
26 For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword .
27 However , it now seems to have been accepted by the RICS that the overseas experience of limited liability , together with that of UK land surveyors , livestock auctioneers and other companies , indicates that in practice the ethical problem may be overstated .
28 These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East .
29 The Mirror Group — controlled by Mr Maxwell 's private companies — was to have been floated on the Stock Exchange next year .
30 The earliest record of Prague is supposed to have been documented in the 9th century .
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