Example sentences of "[vb pp] to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon will become meaningless , ’ grieves the new edition , widely expected to have been posthumous . |
| 2 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 3 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 4 | Despite the many grumbles and adverse comments , 70 per cent of all employers interviewed claimed to have been satisfied with the standard of work of young people taken on by them in the previous two years , and only 14 per cent expressed dissatisfaction . |
| 5 | Until recently , indeed , any impact on the landscape in such early times was considered to have been minimal . |
| 6 | The House Committee published a cumulative index of names and organizations and there was the Attorney General 's list of about two hundred organizations which were considered to have been Communist or Communist Front . |
| 7 | Overall , operation " Iron Fist " , which had begun in September [ see p. 37698 ] , was considered to have been successful in reducing violence . |
| 8 | The action of the Sandinista-controlled Army ( EPS ) , in obeying a government order and clearing the barricades away on July 10 , and the constitutional loyalty also of the police force ( which was similarly linked with the FSLN ) , was generally considered to have been crucial to the government 's survival . |
| 9 | Both judges expressed the view that the payments could not be considered to have been voluntary . |
| 10 | In the event , the election was considered to have been free and orderly because the party most openly opposed to military rule , the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , won some 80 per cent of seats in the new Assembly . |
| 11 | Assad was reported to have been disappointed when a meeting of the Damascus Declaration signatories scheduled for March in Qatar had been postponed until May . |
| 12 | A petition signed by 15,000 people demanded justice and the closing down of the garrison , whose commander was reported to have been relieved of his duties . |
| 13 | Aid workers in Somalia , including those with UN agencies , were widely reported to have been dismayed by the prospect of a US-led military intervention . |
| 14 | The shooting dead of a German businessman by police in Algiers on Oct. 1 was reported to have been accidental . |
| 15 | Stone is reported to have been unhappy at being passed over for the DEC presidency . |
| 16 | Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack . |
| 17 | The outgoing Cabinet Secretary , Mayumi Moriyama , who had occupied the most senior post ever held by a woman , was reported to have been furious at her summary dismissal . |
| 18 | Argentina , along with Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Uruguay , were reported to have been willing to propose a 50 per cent reduction in tariff levels and a 10 per cent increase in the list of goods covered . |
| 19 | There are reported to have been minor clashes with security forces on Saturday evening , but no notable casualties . |
| 20 | One of his wives is reported to have been Jewish and , by implication , Nazarean . |
| 21 | There was reported to have been intense lobbying of UN delegates by US and other officials in the days preceding the vote , which was originally scheduled for March 30 , but was postponed to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities on the feast-day of Laila al-Qadr . |
| 22 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 23 | The surgeon was said to have been present during their operations at Wrexham Maelor Hospital . |
| 24 | As Chief Secretary of the Treasury from November 1990 he is said to have been crucial in ensuring a record settlement for the Arts Council for 1992/93 . |
| 25 | Late in his reign , the Shah was even said to have been impressed by the liberalizing efforts of King Juan Carlos in Spain . |
| 26 | Ministers are said to have been impressed by what they regard as the success of privately-run prisons and want to extend the scheme to other parts of the criminal justice system . |
| 27 | The marriage was said to have been stormy , but she mourned fervently , with lifelong observance of the anniversary of his death . |
| 28 | He was said to have been depressed after sitting his first exam … and apparently left a suicide note in his room . |
| 29 | Diana is said to have been upset and angered by phone calls between Camilla and Charles . |
| 30 | Although SSAP 2 was said to have been applicable , the important caveat was added that in accounting to the Government for the purpose of producing the appropriation accounts , the accounting was on the cash basis . |