Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 2 | Their backpacks are believed to have been seen on a dump . |
| 3 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 4 | In one test , for example , children are asked to identify a traditional English beer tankard — an object unlikely ever to have been seen by a child from a Muslim background in which alcohol is proscribed . |
| 5 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 6 | This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings . |
| 7 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 8 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
| 9 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 10 | While at Messina , en route for the Holy Land , he seems to have been overcome by a sense of the wickedness of his life . |
| 11 | Structural studies of the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group have refined the understanding of the deformational history : the early episode of major slump folding identified previously now appears to have been followed by a period of upright folding that has been subsequently modified by south-directed thrusting . |
| 12 | The " Misery of the Human Condition " was to have been followed by a treatise on " The Dignity of the Human Condition " , which was never written , presumably because of Lothar 's election as pope . |
| 13 | For example , a company which has given a preference to a person connected with the company is rebuttably presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer that person . |
| 14 | Firstly , in the case of preferential treatment , s239 relates to transactions within two years before the onset of solvency rather than six months and the vendor is presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer creditors unless the contrary is shown . |
| 15 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 16 | He is thought to have been killed with a high-powered long-range rifle , possibly an American-made Barrett ( Light Fifty ) which has a range of up to 1,800 metres and fires half-inch rounds . |
| 17 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 18 | Bernard was thought to have been killed in a car-bomb attack a year and a half ago . |
| 19 | The infant had defects that were alleged to have been caused as a result of injuries , when in the womb , sustained when an accident occurred to her mother as a consequence of the negligence of a railway company . |
| 20 | Sometimes the testicles suffer from under or over-suspension , either of which can cause discomfort , but this is unlikely to have been caused by a vasectomy operation . |
| 21 | In a Minnesota case in 1979 , for instance , a young intern 's casual comment that a laceration appeared to have been caused by a knife later led the injured woman to change her story completely and come to believe , under hypnosis , that she was stabbed repeatedly , despite subsequent medical evidence . |
| 22 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 23 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 24 | The unrest , which was connected with further proposed petrol price and bus fare increases and also involved student protests , was believed to have been caused by a Supreme Court decision not to proceed with corruption charges against various former ministers . |
| 25 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 26 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 27 | The erosion is believed to have been caused by a combination of : i ) the relative rise in sea level brought about by the slow sinking of southeastern England ; ii ) an actual rise in sea level locally since the 1970s ; and iii ) the reduction of saltmarshes due to human-made sea defences . |
| 28 | Fairley was considered to have been converted into a sex monster by viewing pornographic films . |
| 29 | She crouched down and jerked open the two doors , fully expecting the cupboard to have been converted into a homely little rat lair . |
| 30 | Most managers are happier with numbers and measurements than qualitative judgements , and there is , certainly , some risk that a small-scale piece of research will turn out to have been done on a sample of people who are rather atypical of the desired target audience as a whole . |