Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I was going to 've been Suzanne Brown , years ago , before he stole my bag . |
| 2 | Ill-defined THE BITER then can consider himself to have been bit , if not torn up and mutilated . |
| 3 | ( To both Leonard 's and his mother 's regret , sadly ; another of those alienating-reconciling events which seem to have been characteristic of this family . ) |
| 4 | Of recent British policy , Dulles privately remarked on 6 May 1957 : " It seems to us to have been characteristic of a nation which , realizing that it was weak , felt it had to act as though it was strong " . |
| 5 | She painted portraits , flower pieces and seascapes but her consistently favourite subject seems to have been women . |
| 6 | If the Tobacco Institute of Australia is required to pay the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations $ ; A1.5 million when costs are determined , it may well consider the experience to have been money well spent . |
| 7 | Quite , quite frankly I , I ca n't see Walsall moving , because it seems to have been money wasted if they 've made Fellas Park good and then they move somewhere else . |
| 8 | There ought to have been keys hanging by the door to the utility room , but they were n't there . |
| 9 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
| 10 | The princes had not been mentioned and she assumed it to have been instructions for some special task commissioned privately by the new constable . |
| 11 | It seems to have been Moscow 's need to counter a challenge from Beijing which prompted the next Soviet commitment to Cuba . |
| 12 | If one looks at the matter in terms of the number of Directives related to trade and competition issued by the Commission , then undoubtedly there is seen to have been progress . |
| 13 | The proposed minimum was to have been 75% of the average taxable income of a US company in the same industry segment as the foreign-owned firm . |
| 14 | The major factor in the deaths seems to have been polystyrene ceiling tiles in the kitchen and living room . |
| 15 | ‘ To be fair , ’ the prince pointed out generously , ‘ in this case it seems to have been Owen who took the offensive . ’ |
| 16 | This was to have been Green 's fourth RAC campaign . |
| 17 | About a century later the castle was again ‘ modernised ’ , when there seem to have been plans to give the two towers a continuous classical facade , although the work was never completed . |
| 18 | What the creation of the Parisian chef ( his name is said to have been Philippe , owner of a restaurant in the rue Montorgueil ) has lost in splendour it has gained in ancient antecedents and a background which will make a godsend for publicity men , compilers of travel literature , and the experts in picturesque magazine cookery . |
| 19 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 20 | The plaintiff , in an action under the Factories Act 1961 , s. 14 , was held to have been 100% contributorily negligent after he admitted that what he had done had been extremely foolish . |
| 21 | My father was to have been bailiff , now that and all other honours are out of his reach . |
| 22 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 23 | New York collector Leonard Lauder paid what is said to have been $25 million for some of the finest remaining works , including Braque 's ‘ Still life with mandoline and metronome ’ ( 1909–10 ) and Gris 's ‘ Portrait of the artist 's mother ’ ( 1912 ) . |
| 24 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 25 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 26 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 27 | As the majority seem to have been charges on benefices , the two enjoyed by the rector of Marsh Gibbon were additional to his living and presumably from a different source . |
| 28 | Scott J concluded that it was in the public interest for there to have been disclosure to those two bodies . |
| 29 | * ‘ The last major wooden ( actually composite ) passenger sailing ship seems to have been Torrenns which ceased carrying passengers to Adelaide in 1903 . |
| 30 | However , the only unauthorised visitors appear to have been souvenir hunters and men foraging among the stores . |