Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [been] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hindsight may show this to have been a pivotal meeting . |
| 2 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
| 3 | ‘ Atropine is confirmed , and far too much to have been a slight slip of the deadly nightshade . |
| 4 | She was a national leader in the W.C.T.U. ( Women 's Christian Temperance Union ) but in spite of her reputation for being austere , dogmatic and old-fashioned , I considered myself fortunate to have been a personal friend of Nellie McClung . |
| 5 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 6 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 7 | It appears that severity of illness or disability is likely to have been a critical variable , and in cases of severe disability , health would have been an overriding consideration . |
| 8 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 9 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 10 | Abimelech , the Philistine king ( 26:1 ) : the name is probably a family or throne-name , this is therefore likely to have been a later king than the one Abraham encountered ( 20–21 ) . |
| 11 | But the massive post-election bomb in London is likely to have been an each-way bet planned well in advance . |
| 12 | In the two volunteers reported to have HLA-B35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . |
| 13 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
| 14 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
| 15 | Although the combination of recession and high interest rates is likely to have been the main cause of this rise in defaults , the much more moderate increase in company failures and mortgage arrears which accompanied the more severe downturn and higher interest rates of 1980–81 period suggests that other factors may also have been important . |
| 16 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 17 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
| 18 | Predictably , the survey showed 1992 to have been a flat year for the UK 's information technology businesses . |
| 19 | This reflects the fact that the commodities boom was highly generalized , and therefore unlikely to have been a freak coincidence of very different developments in different markets . |
| 20 | They conclude that there must be less than 5 x unc monopoles per sq.cm per steradian per second in the vicinity of the Earth , and that ‘ the Cabrera candidate is unlikely to have been a true monopole -induced event . ’ |
| 21 | On the debit side , there is unlikely to have been a significant shift of travel in such a small town from cars towards public transport or indeed towards the bicycle . |
| 22 | Atrophic gastritis was found in three of our patients and is therefore unlikely to have been an important factor in our study . |
| 23 | ‘ The alleyway is so remote that it is unlikely to have been an opportunist crime , ’ Chief Inspetor Graham said . |
| 24 | Whoever they were , Ulf and Eglaf are unlikely to have been the prime movers in the attack on Cnut . |
| 25 | These are unlikely to have been the only offices in the gift of the chief steward and the total may have been substantial . |
| 26 | These are unlikely to have been the only offices in the gift of the chief steward and the total may have been substantial . |
| 27 | Gift-giving and Christ-like displays of humility are unlikely to have been the only aspects of religion which Cnut found attractive . |
| 28 | The aim of the measure may also have been financial , because the Crown was empowered to distrain for half of the profits resulting from the enclosure ; it was not , however , an easy way to raise money , so it is unlikely to have been the only reason for the Act . |
| 29 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
| 30 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |