Example sentences of "[vb infin] have been [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 2 | Although the case of a limitation upon , or condition precedent to a right to serve a notice to quit , does not appear to have been the subject of judicial decision , his principle that , if a covenant affects a landlord qua landlord , it must necessarily run with the reversion , appears to me a sound criterion … |
| 3 | Although Bracton alleged that the rape of non-virgins was also punishable , this does not appear to have been the practice of the courts . |
| 4 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 5 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |
| 6 | He did n't think having been a member of Big Flame was a qualification for either post . |
| 7 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |
| 8 | The figures could have been used to cover a fraud operation or could have have been the result of no-one ever checking the facts . |
| 9 | There would seem to have been a shortage of silver in Northumbria from the 790s on , certainly for minting purposes . |
| 10 | The widow , a Quaker , would seem to have been a devotee of herbal medicine and various other quack cures . |
| 11 | 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 . |