Example sentences of "to have be [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constructionally , I did n't make the tables easy for myself , but the detailing seems to have been worth the extra time spent . |
| 2 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 3 | There now occurred something , that in retrospect , I believe to have been of the greatest significance to this journey . |
| 4 | There has been no substantial loss of moorland/rough grassland ; wetland drainage appears to have been on a limited scale and grazing of woodlands is not common practice . |
| 5 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 6 | This minority appears to have been on an upward trend ( from 2 per cent of couples both of whom were employees in 1968 to 5 per cent in 1980 — Elias , 1983 ) , but the conclusion of Lynne Hamill 's study of the 1974 FES still stands . |
| 7 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 8 | The Kitchings ' workplace which is believed to have been on the grassed wasteland in front of North Road museum became known as Hopetown Foundry . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |
| 10 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 11 | Stark 's confidence appears to have been at a low ebb but the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , has been reminding him of his form earlier in the season : at the Dubai Sevens , which the Scots won ; in the A international against Italy in Melrose when the Boroughmuir winger had a hand in both tries ; and in his senior international debut against Ireland at Murrayfield , when he scored one try and was heavily involved in the other from Tony Stanger . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 13 | Davidson 's party political position may make him a more objective source than those more closely involved , and he appears to have been in a good position to know what was going on . |
| 14 | It seems to have been in the Eastern seaports of colonial America that the fruit acquired its association with hospitality . |
| 15 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 16 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 17 | Plants like these are very likely to have been among the earliest forms to colonise the moist margins of the land , but so far no fossil relics of undoubted mosses have been discovered from this early period . |
| 18 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |