Example sentences of "to have been [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Indeed , Eanwulf 's connections with Hwiccian territory appear to have been considerable , for he founded the monastery of Bredon in Worcestershire , of which Offa was subsequently a patron ( CS 234 , 847 : S 117 ; CS 236 : S 116 ) but Offa 's family is not certainly known to have been related to the princes of the Hwicce . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've taken scrapings of those areas where the Scapegoat appears to have been secured to the frame . |
| 5 | A mortgage by Bishop Eadnoth of Crediton from 1018 ( S 1387 ) is said to have been declared to the borough meetings of Exeter , Totnes , Lydford and Barnstaple . |
| 6 | At least 100,000 million yen were alleged to have been diverted to the Inagawa-kai , the second largest crime syndicate in Japan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 9 | In this connection , she was reported to have been co-opted to the Judicial Studies Board . |
| 10 | The only member of the former Board of Guardians to have been appointed to the committee was William Lansberry , who had been its chairman , and he was immediately put on a sub-committee to appoint a Public Assistance Officer . |
| 11 | If it is that the Court of Appeal should have relisted his case , then his application would have to have been made to the Commission by March 1991 . |
| 12 | The attempt then appears to have been transferred to the Daily Mail . |
| 13 | Ellwood et al. ( 1980 ) , however , argued that when the maximum depth of burial ( estimated at 12 km ) and age are taken into account , the sediments underlying the Piedmont , though not as altered as the surface rocks , are likely to have been raised to the greenschist phase of metamorphism and so presumably have little remaining hydrocarbon potential . |
| 14 | The earlier and well-known technique of framing up a loose panel appears to have been sacrificed to the whimsy of fashion . |
| 15 | But if today Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the few women to have been admitted to the art historical canon under the banner of ‘ greatness ’ , in her day she never won the critical acclaim she sought . |
| 16 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 17 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 18 | One can hardly put it stronger than that , because a certain imprecision appears to have been attached to the word from the beginning . |
| 19 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 20 | Boeing components are alleged to have been sold to the Iranians by the London-based Aer Lingus controlled spares company Alpex , which has since been wound up . |
| 21 | After the initial failure to sell Austin Rover and Leyland Vehicles the government continued to negotiate for the sale of Leyland Bus , which was to have been sold to the Laird Group , the second largest UK bus manufacturer . |
| 22 | At most , the prosecution witness is obliged to testify that there was a person present or in the vicinity who was likely to have been subjected to the sensations described . |
| 23 | The ‘ right ’ of orgasm for women ( as well as for men ) seemed to have been added to the list of the ‘ natural rights of man ’ which the fathers of the Enlightenment seemed to have overlooked ! |
| 24 | In these same excavations a square external tower was also examined ; it was thought to have been added to the wall at a later date . |
| 25 | The attack was believed to have been linked to the second anniversary on Dec. 9 of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories . |
| 26 | Little heed seems to have been paid to the argument that before stepping into an airliner everyone knows a slight risk is involved . |
| 27 | By writ dated 6 September 1991 the plaintiffs in the second action , Kleinwort Benson Ltd. , claimed restitution of sums totalling £807,230.31 , alleged to have been paid to the defendants in respect of similar agreements between 7 and 15 September 1982 , and to trace the said sums . |
| 28 | Also , one of the sums said to have been paid to the enemy in either 991 ( £10,000 ) or 994 ( £16,000 ) may be wrong , as a surviving treaty which almost certainly belongs to one of these years ( and most likely to 994 ) gives a figure of £22,000 . |
| 29 | The latter provision ( s664 ) will deem the income to have been paid to the children of the settlor for the purposes of s663 ( IRC v Lord Delamere ( 1939 ) 22 TC 525 and Eastwood v IRC ( 1943 ) 25 TC 100 ) . |
| 30 | a capital sum may be paid directly to the settlor ; 2. a capital sum may be paid indirectly to the settlor ; 3. a capital sum may be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if a sum is paid to any third party at the settlor 's direction ; 4. a capital sum shall be deemed to be paid to the settlor if the sum is paid to any third party by virtue of an assignment by the settlor of his right to receive it ; and 5. a capital sum shall be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if it is otherwise paid or applied by them for the benefit of the settlor . |