Example sentences of "to have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This First Book of Dowland 's raises the problem of which was the original form ; some were undoubtedly composed as part-songs , others ( for instance , ‘ Sleep , wayward thoughts ’ and ‘ Awake , sweet love ’ ) probably originated as solos to the lute , while others again ( ‘ If my complaints ' , ‘ Can she excuse ’ , ‘ Now , oh now I needs must part ’ ) seem to have been instrumental dances to which words were later added . |
| 32 | There was reported to have been intense lobbying of UN delegates by US and other officials in the days preceding the vote , which was originally scheduled for March 30 , but was postponed to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities on the feast-day of Laila al-Qadr . |
| 33 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 34 | The timing question aside , there appears to have been basic agreement between Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson on the need to defend sterling . |
| 35 | There also seem to have been considerable baseline imbalances in the trial reported by Kinmond and colleagues , judged on the few characteristics described in table I , and so the same concerns must apply . |
| 36 | Even in 1377 there seems to have been considerable evasion ; in 1381 this was certainly far worse . |
| 37 | Everybody , including shop-keepers , bar owners and all the members of your class at the University — they do n't have to have been special friends , just acquaintances — teachers , too . |
| 38 | Its diet appears to have been soft fruit , which appeared to contradict the suggestion that thick enamel was adaptive for hard fruit diets ; but the more recent conclusion that the microwear of the much earlier thick-enamelled hominoid from Pasalar is indicative of a hard-fruit diet suggests that there was a dietary shift after the development of thick enamel , with dietary change independent of morphology . |
| 39 | Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances . |
| 40 | From the earliest weeks , euphoria about military success was quickly dissipated by the economic restrictions and the material impact on daily life , even though , compared with the later years of the war , these appear in retrospect to have been minor forms of interference . |
| 41 | There are reported to have been minor clashes with security forces on Saturday evening , but no notable casualties . |
| 42 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |
| 43 | The prestige of Oswiu 's family , or else its capacity for intimidation , must have been very considerable for Aldfrith to return and rule in what seems to have been domestic peace . |
| 44 | Their careers seem to have been mythological expressions of the need to overcome the matriarchs who founded agriculture and to whom , in time , the heroes and demi-gods were to be heirs . |
| 45 | From the cases , this seems to have been common practice in the nineteenth century : see for instance Re Carus-Wilson & Greene ( 1886 ) 18 QBD 7 , where there were two valuers and an umpire to value timber in a land sale . |
| 46 | Barnabas Thomas , cousin of Gordon Thomas , who seems to have been resident engineer of the site , explained that the fall was due to the cleavage of the strata and not a general slip of the bench . |
| 47 | Dozens of Tibetans were killed during demonstrations in incidents which , in some cases , are believed by Amnesty International to have been extra-judicial executions . |
| 48 | The sons of Aelfwald , still in sanctuary in York minster , were persuaded in 791 to leave the church by what are said to have been false promises and then killed , presumably drowned , by Aethelred in Wonwaldremere . |
| 49 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |