Example sentences of "to have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 2 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 3 | He may miss out significant features of style which he happens not to have been looking for . |
| 4 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 5 | Wilko was reported to have been looking at Ronnie earlier this season but nothing came of it . |
| 6 | because Shirley seems to have been looking after , anyway she married this Robert |
| 7 | Human skeletons and a cannon-ball weighing twelve pounds have been unearthed in the garden , and the names ‘ Battle Well ’ and ‘ Battle Cottages ’ , both found close by , are unlikely to have been called this without good reason . |
| 8 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 9 | Miss Mitchell died before she could write her own sequel , which was to have been called Tomorrow Is Another Day . |
| 10 | Whether the men had truly neglected their duties is unknown , though in view of the social norms of the period the drinking must have been heavy indeed to have been called ‘ excessive ’ , but employment in government service , even when obtained , was never easy to retain , and the chance of doing so was greatly enhanced by a wise choice of political friends . |
| 11 | Preston might have preferred to have been called Blackpool , all things considered . |
| 12 | Dickerson and Lee seem to have been saving Malcolm X up for years ; they were buddies at film school . |
| 13 | Proposals for a worldwide carbon tax and the phasing out of coal-burning generators appear to have been ruled out . |
| 14 | He appears to have been ruled out although Eoin Jess WILL lead the attack despite Italian media suggestions that he 'll be left out . |
| 15 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 16 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 17 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 18 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 19 | Most of the attacks were near main roads , and the original police hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from one enclosed pasture to another ; then several horses seemed to have been assaulted in different places at the same time , although this is not certain . |
| 20 | MADONNA is the latest high profile performer to have been cited by US presidential candidate Bill Clinton in his quest to court young voters . |
| 21 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 22 | Configured like the reticulated rib-cage of some enormous alien creature , long dead and looming over them , the vault appeared not to have been carved but rather rubbed into shape painstakingly , no doubt by the labour of slaves over many decades , millennia earlier . |
| 23 | Back on the path I came to the " chasm " said by many geologists to be a collapsed cave system and suggested by others more recently to have been carved out of a weakness in the limestone by the raging melting ice waters of a glacier . |
| 24 | We pass a council estate and a forlorn shop which seems to have been carved into the ground level of the estate . |
| 25 | Cadwallon has gathered a victorious host and appears to have been encamped on Môn ( Anglesey ) with a fleet nearby . |
| 26 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 27 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 28 | Naturally enough , this raised all sorts of questions as to how much of the estate could in good faith be consumed by him ; and ( the question here ) in what circumstances the estate could be said to have been diminished . |
| 29 | Nine of the 28 subjects were found to have been exceeding the speed limit on at least one of the four occasions . |
| 30 | She had changed into a gown she seemed to have been poured into , and promised to pop out of . |