Example sentences of "to have [been] [vb pp] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She was sent the script for one of the episodes — she has never said by whom — and was so enraged by one scene in which the councillor was to have been seen leaving a prostitute 's room doing up his trousers , that she sent it straight to the Postmaster General , the Minister responsible .
2 Others had already leaped boldly in the expectation that others would follow , that it would prove wise to have been seen to take the plunge first .
3 The fact that the pilot had clearly demonstrated his incompetence at instrument flying by failing to pass the instrument rating test no less than eight times before finally obtaining a pass must have meant that he was incapable of meeting the required standard on a regular basis and in the circumstances ought not to have been licensed to fly a public transport aircraft .
4 ‘ This is apparently against prison regulations , but little seems to have been done to enforce the rule . ’
5 Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two .
6 Little seems to have been done to repair the various bridges and now , — " Ballinaby having presented to this Meeting an Estimate of a Bridge to be built upon the water of Saligo …
7 ‘ My dear Jane and friends , ’ he said , ‘ I am greatly privileged to have been asked to say a few words today .
8 Yesterday Lucas factory manager Colin Hull said the firm was delighted to have been asked to host a visit from the princess as a result of her expressing a wish to include an industrial stop on her stay .
9 The jaw muscles turn out to have been placed to generate the most powerful bite possible , especially when Diatryma brought into play the powerful downwards hingeing action of the upper beak on the skull .
10 Simple instances , on the other hand , are those in which the clause seems to have been adopted to cover the eventuality that there may be some defect in the will so far as the civil law is concerned .
11 Draftsmen often use the word " independent " , as in phrases like " an independent valuer " or " an independent accountant " : the latter is used in the precedents in Appendix A. Sometimes this wording seems to have been intended to draw a distinction between expert determination and arbitration , as in the clause in the lease which was disputed in North Eastern Cooperative Society Ltd v Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 142 , where the parties were supposed to agree on " an independent surveyor " , and if they could not agree , the RICS was to appoint an arbitrator .
12 That tour to Australia is just one highlight in a busy itinerary for the Gala stand-off : ‘ I have had am ambition to play at the Hong Kong Sevens and was simply thrilled to have been invited to join the Irish Wolfhounds squad for this year 's tournament .
13 became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated .
14 Craig seems to have been determined to undermine the association 's credibility and to brand its members as troublemakers .
15 And , despite Korda 's avowed belief in ‘ lightness ’ , little effort seems to have been made to mute the pompous misanthropy evident in the company 's two H. G. Wells adaptations .
16 The city 's site on the Isthmus made her a natural centre for trade , and the aryballos seems to have been created to meet a new need : to bottle scented oils , imported from the East , for re-export east and west .
17 Karnstein seemed to have been born to fit the caricatured image of a hospital matron , determined to do a patient good even if it killed him .
18 Although there were no mechanical clocks in antiquity , mechanical models appear to have been constructed to reproduce the relative motions of the heavenly bodies .
19 The rest of the money seems to have been used to finance a double life .
20 A duplicate key is thought to have been used to enter a bungalow in Daytona Drive , Northop Hall , where property worth almost £4,000 was stolen .
21 A former SAS officer , a geologist and several police officers spent months pinpointing locations most likely to have been used to store the cash .
22 Given that the annual cost of a Roman legion was 1.25 million denarii , this calculation shows that provincial bronze coinage is not likely to have been used to pay the wages of Roman legionaries .
23 The squad is also reported to have been ordered to take a 10 per cent wage cut to cover falling gates .
24 Those reported to have been arrested included a naval officer and Daniel Narcisse .
25 These experiments are difficult , but the interest in the outcome is sufficiently high for a number of careful experimental groups to have been encouraged to make the attempt .
26 ISC is understood to have small contracts in each of these territories but further ‘ phantom ’ contracts are believed to have been invented to make the company seem more successful than it was .
27 But Mr Krueger 's unorthodox manner ( by Texas standards ) does not bode well : he has been defeated in two previous races for the Senate , and was rumoured to have been chosen to fill the empty seat only after three previous choices had been rejected by special interests .
28 The four elements which together add up to have been combined to form the single variable , and C t is regressed on this single variable .
29 Little is known of his activities there , but he seems to have resumed the preaching of similar views and to have been forced to leave the town .
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