Example sentences of "to have [been] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | A heads-together with the auctioneers failed to bring bidder and reserve ( thought to have been $1.3 million ) nearer . |
6 | Soon after the ceremony he went to Glasgow , where he fell ill with what would seem to have been smallpox , and from vanity kept a taffeta mask over his face . |
7 | No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya . |
8 | Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’ |
9 | It is reported to have been £1 million . |