Example sentences of "to have been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposals for a worldwide carbon tax and the phasing out of coal-burning generators appear to have been ruled out . |
| 2 | He appears to have been ruled out although Eoin Jess WILL lead the attack despite Italian media suggestions that he 'll be left out . |
| 3 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 4 | Back on the path I came to the " chasm " said by many geologists to be a collapsed cave system and suggested by others more recently to have been carved out of a weakness in the limestone by the raging melting ice waters of a glacier . |
| 5 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 6 | Racedown seems to have been given up without regret ; what was important was ‘ Coleridge 's society ’ . |
| 7 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 8 | Croquet is not new to Teesside where the game is known to have been played round about the turn of the century on six lawns in Albert Park , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | Cynewulf 's annexation of land bordering on the Thames in Berkshire in the early years of Offa 's reign certainly appears to have been followed up by further action in the original Gewissian territory around Dorchester . |
| 10 | But no boy could fail to notice the hollows of his cheeks , which seemed to have been scooped out in deep , dark channels , or his eyes , which were ringed round with black , and bleary , and haunted . |
| 11 | It erm I suppose released a great deal of pressure that seemed to have been building up . |
| 12 | MARK HATELEY breathed life into Rangers ' European Cup challenge last night , just as their hopes seemed to have been killed off by Marseille 's foreign legion . |
| 13 | The concept seems to have been killed off by Sutcliffe v Thackrah ( cited at 14.6.4 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Hardly anyone ever comes out this far , ’ Diane said , walking toward the middle of the clearing where about half a dozen mounds of earth appeared to have been dug over . |
| 15 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 16 | The sleek , expressionless woman wore a silvery skintight jumpsuit which almost appeared to have been sprayed on to her limbs , not donned . |
| 17 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 18 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 19 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 20 | Cindy is said to have been spurred on to achieve by the death of her four-year-old brother Jeff , a leukaemia victim . |
| 21 | Bridges were reported to have been blown up and roads to the capital blocked in an effort to halt the march . |
| 22 | Communications with Tamiami Airport and with WAM were not re-established as FlyPast went to press , but Susy Q , the WAM B–17 , is thought to have been blown over on top of the A–26 Invader and/or B–23 Dragon that were also stored outside the WAM hangar . |
| 23 | But windows were reported to have been blown out in homes more than 1,000 yards away . |
| 24 | Part of the site also appears to have been turned over to saw milling , as it was possible to drive either saws or lathes and machinery from the wheels . |
| 25 | ‘ He seems to have been moved around . |
| 26 | Whatever it is , it needs to have been thrashed out endlessly with the top leadership of the business and to be able to be expressed in a single , understandable , clear and unambiguous sentence . |
| 27 | all that money that they keep demanding from the er th wa th wa the firms and such like that ought to have been ploughed back into the firm ! |
| 28 | Those who have been before would n't touch it with a bargepole and those of more tender years are almost certain to have been warned off anyway . |
| 29 | The deaf children of the Molfetta Deaf School in Trani were proud to have been singled out for a visit by the Princess |
| 30 | ‘ I was very surprised to have been singled out for this honour . |