Example sentences of "to have been [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | ( 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 ) . |
| 5 | The Kitchings ' workplace which is believed to have been on the grassed wasteland in front of North Road museum became known as Hopetown Foundry . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |