Example sentences of "shows [pron] to have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 2 | It was Nicholas junior who had shared his night watches ; his work on the Harmonies shows him to have been a prodigy . |
| 3 | His long career in France which led him to hold high military and administrative posts , as well as amassing a fortune through the capture of prisoners in battle , the seizing of property and the exploitation of estates , shows him to have been a ‘ realistic ’ person in all that he did . |
| 4 | His will , proved in December of that year , shows him to have been in easy circumstances . |
| 5 | His will , executed on 12 December 1760 , shows him to have been a man of substance . |
| 6 | A painting in 1871 by Edward Smith , now in the City Museum , shows it to have been fairly large , partly domestic and partly industrial . |
| 7 | Examination of recovered material shows it to have been a type I carbonaceous chondrite . |
| 8 | In the epigram it is ‘ the citadel of Ilium taken ’ , and Pausanias calls it ‘ Troy taken and the departure of the Greeks ’ ; and so the description shows it to have been — not the night of terror but the morning after . |