Example sentences of "to have [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to have been Moscow 's need to counter a challenge from Beijing which prompted the next Soviet commitment to Cuba . |
| 2 | ‘ To be fair , ’ the prince pointed out generously , ‘ in this case it seems to have been Owen who took the offensive . ’ |
| 3 | This was to have been Green 's fourth RAC campaign . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Jacobite riot at Newcastle-under-Lyme in July 1715 was a well-planned and carefully staged affair , and one of the patrons seems to have been Ralph Sneyd , MP for Staffordshire . |
| 6 | Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work . |
| 7 | On the one hand , there would appear to have been Jesus 's own aristocratic and royal pedigree , which , as we have discussed , Herod , as a usurper , deemed a threat to his legitimacy . |
| 8 | Jeremy Isaacs , former chief executive of Channel Four , challenged Mr Birt to name the mystery secretarial assistant to whom Mr Birt 's company paid a £15,000 salary , and who is now widely assumed to have been Mrs Jane Birt . |
| 9 | In fact , if the truth be known , he would really have liked to have been Walt Disney ! |
| 10 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 11 | The European Council of Ministers on 10 March got fed up with Super-SARA — which was to have been Europe 's model for testing the conventional wisdom on safety designs — and axed the £200 million project . |
| 12 | In Act 5 , scene 2 , Tancred is recounting his victorious combat with a Saracen ( whom we know to have been Clorinda ) . |
| 13 | A key figure in the conspiracy was alleged to have been William Casey . |
| 14 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 15 | Both government and opposition are grappling with the awkward consequences of an upsurge of religious tension inspired by militant Hindu claims to a disused Muslim mosque on a site believed to have been Lord Rama 's birthplace . |
| 16 | This linen cloth , some 4.25 m in length , bears the shadowy image of the front and back of a man who appears to have been scourged and crucified , and it is therefore believed to have been Christ 's burial shroud . |
| 17 | We are fortunate to have been Grant Aided by the Sports Council for a period of two years , during which time growth must be shown in all areas of our operation . |
| 18 | What do you consider to have been Matisse 's most important contribution to modern art ? |
| 19 | [ Except that it was n't snowing , because this has to have been November . |
| 20 | The author of this article , a certain ‘ E. G. ‘ , turns out to have been Edmund Gosse . |
| 21 | There was a further skirmish between 261 Squadron and 7/JG26 this day during which a Hurricane pilot , believed to have been Sgt. Hyde , claimed a Bf109 shot down and one damaged . |
| 22 | It is now thought to have been Richard , rather than his son Robert , who gave Godgifu , sister of the æthelings Edward and Alfred , in marriage to Count Dreux of the Vexin . |
| 23 | In Rome yesterday it was evident that the Gazza deal was doomed because Juventus who were to provide half the four million that was to have been Lazio 's down payment had gone cold on the deal . |
| 24 | The Provence seems to have been Miller 's favourite type of rose ; he frequently stressed its outstanding fragrance , an important consideration in the flower garden , and said that by the mid-eighteenth century it had become the most widely propagated of any kind . |
| 25 | Musical variety seems to have been Campra 's principal aim in nearly half of his later cantatas . |
| 26 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |
| 27 | Although the Criterion was the first English periodical to print the work of Cocteau , Valery and Proust , it seems always to have been Eliot 's fate to espouse causes just at the point when they are about to disappear or to disintegrate . |
| 28 | Whether he originated the union or not , its inspiration seemed to have been Thomas Moore , a former naval officer who campaigned tirelessly for the rights of seamen , and who became its honorary president . |
| 29 | Although the rumours of the Queen 's supposed adulteries were real enough and , given the prevailing double standard in sexual matters , much more shocking than the stories of the King 's mistresses , none the less if either of them ever had a romantic love affair it is likely to have been Henry rather than Eleanor . |
| 30 | The main area under discussion seems to have been Venezia Giulia and Trieste . |