Example sentences of "[vb past] to have been [verb] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | An extremely important item , housed in the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna , is the pure silk Hunting carpet , believed to have been given to Emperor Leopold I by Peter the Great . |
| 2 | Crowley regarded the most important event of his life as being his ‘ reception ’ in April 1904 of The Book of the Law , a prose poem which he believed to have been dictated to him by ‘ a praeter-human intelligence ’ . |
| 3 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 4 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 5 | Even in the engineering companies the role of the unions seemed to have been limited to ensuring that , in other than their temporary status , temporary workers were not disadvantaged and received the same fringe benefits ( except membership of company pension schemes ) as regular workers . |
| 6 | Even by the standards of Harry 's yard , Heraldic was no looker , a great , gangling colt with a head and neck that seemed to have been added to his body as an afterthought . |
| 7 | The ‘ right ’ of orgasm for women ( as well as for men ) seemed to have been added to the list of the ‘ natural rights of man ’ which the fathers of the Enlightenment seemed to have overlooked ! |
| 8 | By writ dated 6 September 1991 the plaintiffs in the second action , Kleinwort Benson Ltd. , claimed restitution of sums totalling £807,230.31 , alleged to have been paid to the defendants in respect of similar agreements between 7 and 15 September 1982 , and to trace the said sums . |
| 9 | McCoist looked to have been hauled to the ground at the beginning of the second half , though not in the eyes of the official who also booked John Brown and the Belgian , Creva . |
| 10 | In addition , Mrs Jones was dissatisfied that little attention appeared to have been given to Tom 's problems in school . |
| 11 | When , in the mid-Eighties , Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons stated that ‘ red is the new black ’ ( narrowly beating Diana Vreelands ' ‘ pink is the navy blue of India ’ observation in the Pretentious Fashion Statement stakes ) , it appeared to have been taken to heart by the designers of football kits . |
| 12 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 13 | With her letter , she attached the receipt said to have been issued to her son . |
| 14 | Also , one of the sums said to have been paid to the enemy in either 991 ( £10,000 ) or 994 ( £16,000 ) may be wrong , as a surviving treaty which almost certainly belongs to one of these years ( and most likely to 994 ) gives a figure of £22,000 . |
| 15 | There reports were received from far and wide about recommendations already said to have been submitted to Downing Street . |