Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | ( To both Leonard 's and his mother 's regret , sadly ; another of those alienating-reconciling events which seem to have been characteristic of this family . ) |
2 | Of recent British policy , Dulles privately remarked on 6 May 1957 : " It seems to us to have been characteristic of a nation which , realizing that it was weak , felt it had to act as though it was strong " . |
3 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
4 | The proposed minimum was to have been 75% of the average taxable income of a US company in the same industry segment as the foreign-owned firm . |
5 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
6 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
7 | Alured 's civil war activities were concentrated in two committees : he seems to have been chairman of the committee of the East Riding , and he was an equally active member of the committee of the Northern Association ( sometimes called ‘ the committee at York ’ , though wholly distinct from the committee of Yorkshire , also at York ) . |
8 | There is no evidence that the East Saxons under Swaefberht , who seems to have succeeded Offa ( see above p. 124 ) and who died in 738 , and then under Selered ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) , who died in 746 ( ASC A , s.a. 746 ) , were anything other than subject to the Mercians at this time and Aethelbald appears to have been master of the land of the Middle Saxons ( CS 182 : S 100 ) . |
9 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
10 | The charcoal sketch , measuring 25.7×19.3 cm , is thought to have been part of a Leonardo sketchbook owned by George IV . |
11 | If this does occur , then the Act will be seen to have been part of a ‘ softening-up ’ exercise , creating the conditions within which abolition of the right is capable of being presented as an inevitable rationalization , without actually tackling it directly . |
12 | Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history . |
13 | Yet in one sense even the United States might be said to have been part of an economic system controlled by Europe down to 1914 in that she remained a capital-importing nation , and that capital came from Europe . |
14 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |
15 | Even those of us too young to have been part of it are still under the spell of the culture of activism formed around it . |
16 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
17 | Among the Library 's most spectacular purchases during the year was a copy of Confessione della fede Christiana di M. Theodoro Beza , Vezelio ( [ Geneva ] , 1560 ) , reliably considered by scholars to have been part of the private library of Mary Queen of Scots . |
18 | I 'm just delighted to have been part of it all . |
19 | The three were alleged to have been part of a 30-strong gang which rampaged through the park on April 19 , 1989 , making a series of unprovoked attacks which culminated in the gang-rape of the jogger who was left unconscious with severe head injuries . |
20 | The order , written under the direction of White House counsel Boyden Gray , was to have been part of a " signing statement " attached to the bill . |
21 | This gave the Serbs control of most of a corridor across northern Bosnia linking Serbia proper with the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK — the Serb areas in Croatia ) and was rumoured to have been part of a deal with Croatia in exchange for the army 's withdrawal from Prevlaka [ see above ] . |
22 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
23 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
24 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to the final official opening of the Tunnel , and I 'm delighted to have been part of the support structure that has made it possible . |
25 | A certain Osmund appears to have been king of the South Saxons until at least c . |
26 | Which periods of UK history seem to have been periods of major structural change ? |
27 | Although Whaddon were the only team to enter , and despite the FA declaring the competition null and void , we can , in all fairness I think , claim to have been holders of the Charwoods ' Sweet Pickle A and B Cup . |
28 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |
29 | At first they were thought to have been victims of a crossbow bolt . |
30 | We are proud to have been supporters of him and the team . |