Example sentences of "to have [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She painted portraits , flower pieces and seascapes but her consistently favourite subject seems to have been women . |
| 2 | There ought to have been keys hanging by the door to the utility room , but they were n't there . |
| 3 | And they seem to have been scientists of one sort or another . ’ |
| 4 | The princes had not been mentioned and she assumed it to have been instructions for some special task commissioned privately by the new constable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | * ‘ The last major wooden ( actually composite ) passenger sailing ship seems to have been Torrenns which ceased carrying passengers to Adelaide in 1903 . |
| 9 | In most instances , they appear to have been sites where only tesserae for the repair and maintenance of completed mosaics were knapped and stored . |
| 10 | As both organizations were undergoing far-reaching reforms , a tightly specified brief was not required and , in the event , it seems to have been changes in the Foreign Office structure which led to the abandonment of that part of the competition . |
| 11 | A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family . |
| 12 | Her shoes , posture , and proportions have a strange economic significance , since they all seem to have been factors in her dismissal . |
| 13 | In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved . |
| 14 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 15 | Which periods of UK history seem to have been periods of major structural change ? |
| 16 | There appear to have been trends in the fossil gymnosperms leading to increased protection of the ovules . |
| 17 | Although Whaddon were the only team to enter , and despite the FA declaring the competition null and void , we can , in all fairness I think , claim to have been holders of the Charwoods ' Sweet Pickle A and B Cup . |
| 18 | A report in the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 1 said that officials had confirmed that six men , alleged to have been terrorists , had recently been executed . |
| 19 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |
| 20 | Even what appears to be what Adam Smith called an " offensive " combination — one which " without any provocation … combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour " — may turn out to have been workers taking advantage of a temporary shift in the labour market to restore previously enjoyed conditions of employment . |
| 21 | The defenders of Masada are generally held to have been Zealots . |
| 22 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 23 | The structures which replaced the barracks appear , from the debris which they contained , to have been workshops , so anticipating the Severan arsenals . |
| 24 | At first they were thought to have been victims of a crossbow bolt . |
| 25 | We are proud to have been supporters of him and the team . |
| 26 | Ine was the patron of several churches in his kingdom — Malmesbury , Muchelney and Glastonbury appear to have been beneficiaries — and a genuine act of general exemption from secular burdens may lie behind the suspect extant privilege to West Saxon churches and monasteries of 704 ( CS 108 : S 245 ) . |
| 27 | Most of these are thought to have been Slavs , whom the retreating Austrians had stationed in the rear to sustain the impact of Russian cavalry attacks . |
| 28 | In spite of this , 79 per cent of Italian men believed their wives to have been virgins when they married . |
| 29 | Edwin Land successfully marketed Polaroid and Bakeland began a new industry with Bakelite but they appear to have been exceptions . |
| 30 | Both these divisions , however , appear to have been exceptions to the normal pattern , since they raised issues concerning the Union with Scotland , complex legal technicalities , as well as personal questions of sympathy for or antipathy towards the individuals concerned , all of which placed strains on the normal political sympathies of the different peers . |