Example sentences of "it to have been [art] " in BNC.

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1 I affirm it to have been a fine active stock of books which ought to be available in any good library service …
2 Examination of recovered material shows it to have been a type I carbonaceous chondrite .
3 Ought it to have been a palace ? "
4 Despite the superficial stupidity of the action , it must have some special advantage in at least enough cases for it to have been the subject of natural selection .
5 It is considered to have aphrodisiac properties , and some believe it to have been the original ‘ forbidden fruit ’ and that the Seychelles were the site of the Garden of Eden .
6 Out of the whole mess , Curtis took consolation from two factors — wounded and losing blood , the bastard would n't get far on foot , and into the bargain he had lost his knife — already on its way to Forensic , who would doubtless prove it to have been the murder weapon with which he had butchered his victims .
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