Example sentences of "to have been [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again Saddam Hussein appeared to have been given an 11th-hour chance to stop the slaughter ; once again , the powerful American-led military coalition was crouched , set to pounce . |
| 2 | He shaped well when fourth behind Tipping Tim at Cheltenham and appears to have been given an ideal build-up . |
| 3 | He was frequently referred to on radio and television , and in the papers , as the first person to have been given an artificial heart . |
| 4 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 5 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 6 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 7 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
| 8 | London police chiefs are understood , however , already to have been planning an initiative early next year which would lower height requirements . |
| 9 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |