Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main London to Exeter ‘ road ’ was said to have been a quarter of a mile wide by the end of the winter where it crossed — or rather plunged through — the sticky morass of the chalk on Salisbury Plain . |
| 2 | She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess . |
| 3 | I think L was very fortunate to have been a child in the days when children could roam in woods and fields , unafraid , and when doors could be left unlocked ; when there was less traffic , less noise and less hectic rush . |
| 4 | In those days , simply being British seems to have been a passport to the higher circles of whatever country the traveller set foot in . |
| 5 | The statement was believed to have been a reference to a letter written by Hurd on Aug. 1 to the British Conservative MP , Sir Peter Blaker , underlining the UK government 's respect for Islam and adding that " we understand that the novel , The Satanic Verses , was found deeply offensive by people of the Islamic faith " . |
| 6 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 7 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 8 | He seems to have been a bit of a wastrel , from what Kebbel told us . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He seems to have been a bit of a ladies ’ man — ’ |
| 10 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |
| 11 | And Ann , till the very end , seems somehow to have been a member of no chapel and yet of every chapel ; here she was , being afforded a burial service by courtesy of the Badcox congregation , yet being laid claim to at the same time by a neighbouring Dissenting church : Sheppards Barton Baptist Chapel registers include the entry : ‘ Anne Titford . |
| 12 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 13 | But toleration of large numbers of reversioners seems to have been a feature of the reign of James I rather than the Tudors . |
| 14 | In seven cases there was acknowledged to have been a deterioration in the dependant 's condition , so that the principal carer accepted or had even requested institutional care . |
| 15 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |
| 16 | The plant was to have been a symbol of the Aquino government 's success in convincing Japanese companies of the country 's political stability . |
| 17 | Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment . |
| 18 | This appears simply to have been a trick on the part of the attorney , and not evidence that Rothbury was known to have been corrupt . |
| 19 | ‘ I seem to have been a shock to a number of people . |
| 20 | This year 's final was to have been a duel between the two most successful of all World Cup horses , Milton and Canadian Ian Millar 's Big Ben , who won the final in 1988 and 1989 . |
| 21 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 22 | Their advice was not wholly disinterested , however , since there seems to have been a move in the Conservative Party at this time to replace Baldwin as Party leader by Austen Chamberlain , and so prepare the ground for another Conservative/Liberal Coalition-a reversal , as Cowling puts it , of the verdict of the Carlton Club which had destroyed the Lloyd George Coalition . |
| 23 | The event was meant to have been a demonstration of the balloonist 's art and the accident was dismissed by the organisers as the exception which proves the rule . |
| 24 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 25 | Gunners striker Paul Merson is believed to have been a witness to the incident . |
| 26 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 27 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 28 | Reliefs or statues on Attic graves in this period seem to have been a fashion among the rich aristocracy , especially for those who died young . |
| 29 | In 1601 Jaggard collaborated with Thomas Pavier to publish the only book of his own composition , a summary history of the lord mayors of London from Elizabeth 's accession until 1601 , and in 1602 he acquired what seems to have been a monopoly on the printing of playbills ( none survives ) . |
| 30 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) found 46 per cent of their sample of schizophrenic patients to have experienced an independent life event ( one unlikely to have been a consequence of the previous illness ) in the three weeks before onset , compared to 14 per cent of a comparison group of factory and office workers in the three weeks prior to their interview . |