Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] put " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Nothing seems to have been put here or there by chance : this is a cockpit designed by professionals for people to do things professionally in .
3 The uni-processor will deliver a reported 125 SPECmarks at 150MHz , come with 64Mb to 1Gb RAM , 3D graphics , six turbo channel slots and run OpenVMS — OSF/1 now appears to have been put back until July next year ( UX No 407 ) .
4 Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work .
5 Can you work out where he was likely to have been put in ? "
6 In Western Europe the idea of attack by columns in close formation seems to have been put forward for the first time by the Chevalier de Folard in his Nouvelles Découvertes sur la Guerre ( 1724 ) .
7 The Liberals , although the smallest of the three parties , would seem to be the only party whose programme had not been rejected by the electors ; and , as the only party which could co-operate with either of the other two , it would seem to have been put in a particularly strong position by the result of the election .
8 ‘ The attraction of the place is that it lies spot-on a ley line — an imaginary line linking a few hunks of granite scattered around the landscape , supposed to have been put there by our ancestors for their spiritual gigs .
9 It is thought to have been put together shortly thereafter , perhaps at the Austrasian , that is the east Frankish , court , hence the title by which the collection is known .
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