Example sentences of "[to-vb] been the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hendrique was reputed to have been the best student ever to graduate from Balashikha . |
| 2 | He is said to have been the joint author , with Donaldson , of the Commissioner 's design for the Crystal Palace in 1850 . |
| 3 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
| 4 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 5 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 6 | Reputed to have been the first man to fly under a bridge , Thaw had the face , physique and drinking habits of a Hemingway ; after being wounded , his arm froze — to the rough mirth of the squadron — permanently in the crooked position . |
| 7 | This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income . |
| 8 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 9 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 10 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 11 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 12 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 13 | The decision was believed to have been the first time that a US court had extended prisoner of war status to a convicted criminal . |
| 14 | Harris 's death , scheduled for 3 a.m. on April 3 , was to have been the first execution in the state of California since 1967 . |
| 15 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 16 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 17 | The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman . |
| 18 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 19 | ‘ Tonight seems to have been the final dress rehearsal before Wednesday . |
| 20 | But he has failed to command a regular place during Graeme Souness 's reign as manager and the signing of Nigel Clough looks to have been the final straw for Ronny . |
| 21 | In the two volunteers reported to have HLA-B35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . |
| 22 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 23 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
| 24 | Whatever fire he may have had in his belly , it hardly seems to have been the religious fire of his Frome forebears . |
| 25 | Our radical objector maintains about what we take to have been the causal circumstance that it might riot have been followed by the smell , and moreover that this would not have resulted from the absence of some further condition . |
| 26 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 27 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 28 | For nearly forty years they formed what seems to have been the perfect working partnership , each attending to that part of the business to which their very different characters suited them best . |
| 29 | This seems to have been the usual practice in Benin in contrast to Ife . |
| 30 | The critical handicap under which she laboured , however , appears to have been the low yield of the land . |