Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | His entire career in industry seems to have been a series of opportunities seized with relish . |
| 32 | Joyce began work on the book — which was to have been a series of short stories based on Irish history and mythology — in 1923 , but the project never reached fruition and was abandoned a year later . |
| 33 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 34 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 35 | For Richard it seems to have been a period of reconciliation : with Sebrand Chabot , who was allowed to return to his see in April 1180 , and with Aimar of Limoges , who arrived back at Christmas of the same year . |
| 36 | Milton Keynes appears to have been a victim of that . |
| 37 | There is also a European tradition that precedes the work of Tamm , associated with the name of Bogdanovskaya-Gienef ( 1926 ) who seems to have been a pupil of Sukatschev and to have influenced the reductionist approach to ecology later developed by Rabotnov , Uranov and their pupils in Russia . |
| 38 | One of his earliest works bears also the name of the potter Andokides , and he seems to have been a pupil of Psiax . |
| 39 | Subsequently he is reported to have been a pupil of his cousin George Wilfred Anthony , a drawing master in Manchester , later a landscape painter and art critic ( as ‘ Gabriel Tinto ’ ) for the Manchester Guardian . |
| 40 | Rhun is thought to have been a son of Urien of Rheged ( see above , p. 78 ) , and Oswiu 's marriage to Riemmelth may have cemented an alliance with the north British principality of Rheged as another important strand in the web of alliances which conspired to overthrow Eadwine . |
| 41 | Ceolred is said not to have been a son of Osthryth , so that if he were the son of Aethelred by a subsequent marriage after Osthryth 's death , he would have been aged only about 10 or 11 at his accession . |
| 42 | In 799 Ealdorman Moll , whose name may have family associations , was killed by the urgent orders of King Eardwulf ; and Ealhmund , said by some to have been a son of King Alhred , was seized by Eardwulf 's men and put to death in 800 . |
| 43 | There are arguments for suggesting the landings at Tarawa were unnecessary , much in the way the Dieppe raid on the French coast the previous summer is considered by some historians to have been a waste of many Canadian and other lives . |
| 44 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |
| 45 | My earlier assertion that Hunslet would be leaving at the end of the season , now appears to have been a figment of my imagination , and from what i 've read over the last couple of days Leeds appear to be up ‘ shit creek ’ . |
| 46 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) found 46 per cent of their sample of schizophrenic patients to have experienced an independent life event ( one unlikely to have been a consequence of the previous illness ) in the three weeks before onset , compared to 14 per cent of a comparison group of factory and office workers in the three weeks prior to their interview . |
| 47 | From their shapes , these marks seem to have been a form of writing . |
| 48 | On Radio Warsaw in December 1952 WIN was revealed to have been a puppet of the KGB since it was revived in 1948 . |
| 49 | Also like Sidonius he found a career in the Church , although this seems to have been a matter of choice at a relatively early age , whereas Sidonius became bishop after a major secular career , without any obvious preparation . |
| 50 | Phone back a couple of hours later to report that ooh-er , there seems to have been a copy of the Forms virus on the disk you were using , thus leaving said Editor 's hard disk neither healthy nor safe . |
| 51 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 52 | It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis . |
| 53 | The Rutland jurors again asserted that King John , who seems to have been cast by popular tradition as the villain of the piece , had afforested the greater part of the forest in that country , whereas it seems in fact to have been a creation of Henry I. In Exmoor , the Buckinghamshire part of Bernwood , Cumberland , Worcestershire and Wiltshire the perambulations of 1300 demanded more extensive disafforestments than ever before : more than half the forest area that remained in England was declared to be outside the ancient bounds . |
| 54 | For these women it seems to have been a breath of pure oxygen , heady with proposals for socialist-feminist action , at a time when Kinnockism is attempting to kill it off . |
| 55 | I mean that Christianity proclaims there to have been a revelation of God in history . |
| 56 | For Christians believe there to have been a revelation of God in history . |
| 57 | There seems to have been no element of corruption in this , despite the involvement of Poulson in a range of corrupt activities in the North East in the 1960s . |
| 58 | In this particular case , there seems to have been no question of halting supply , but undertakings were sought that , in times of high demand , outside customers ( , etc. ) would receive fair attention to their orders . |
| 59 | At Allen Street there appears to have been no loss of productivity in his output . |
| 60 | This approach made it inherently possible for the Jews to claim to have been the teachers of the Greeks owing to their own greater antiquity . |