Example sentences of "[adj] to have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … a person who has been fortunate to have been connected with Guiding for the past 18 years . |
| 2 | Such mutual respect , of course , is one of the fundamental elements of high morale , dependability and efficiency , and I count myself fortunate to have been associated with such people for over a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | He was lucky to have been born in this particular tribe . |
| 4 | By contrast the rare finds of silver objects from Bronze Age Europe , notably those from Sardinia , north Italy and the el Argar culture in southern Spain , are likely to have been made from local occurrences of native metals or ores . |
| 5 | The bulk of those who remain interested in UFOs seem less likely to have been motivated by personal experience and are more willing to undergo the reappraisal needed to rationalise their approach . |
| 6 | Trends in infections likely to have been transmitted by unprotected sexual intercourse between men were analysed for indications of changes in sexual behaviour . |
| 7 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 8 | However , it does suggest that the patient 's distress beforehand was more likely to have been related to environmental stresses than an endogenous illness . |
| 9 | This hematite is most likely to have been formed during synkinematic circulation of moderate temperature ( 600°C ) magmatic fluids . |
| 10 | Therefore the aircraft is most likely to have been hit by heavy machine-gun fire , which , unless it hit a vital spot such as fuel tanks or engines , would not cause the immediate destruction of the aircraft , but could kill or disable the pilot . |
| 11 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 12 | This is likely to have been followed by another battle near the Forest of Dean , for Edmund had an alliance with some of the Welsh , but by now both sides were doubtless exhausted , and winter was approaching . |
| 13 | Furthermore , such migrated oil is likely to have been displaced by subsequent migrating gas . |
| 14 | How many craters greater than 1 km diameter are likely to have been produced on 10 6 square kilometres on the lunar surface between 2000 Ma and 1000 Ma ago ? |
| 15 | Modern biblical scholars concur that among the most historically plausible incidents in the Gospels , among the incidents least likely to have been invented by later writers and editors , is Jesus 's baptism in the Jordan by John . |
| 16 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 17 | This form , which is also found in ASL , is likely to have been borrowed by other sign languages from ASL . |
| 18 | The law , the most draconian to have been passed by any mainland state , could not take immediate effect because it conflicted with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision — the foundation of legalized abortion in the USA . |
| 19 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 20 | The present building is supposed to have been erected in 1333 , when the church was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslerton and housed six chaplains and three clerks . |
| 21 | By Elizabethan times it was familiar in every garden , and frequently referred to in records of the 13th and 14th centuries , although officially it is not supposed to have been introduced until 1573 . |
| 22 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 23 | The answer we have arrived at is that complicated things have some quality , specifiable in advance , that is highly unlikely to have been acquired by random chance alone . |
| 24 | John Spearman , Classic FM chief executive , said : ‘ We are very pleased to have been presented with this prestigious award just six months after going on air . |
| 25 | A trade agreement was due to have been concluded within two years of Spanish accession but it was not until Feb. 19 , 1988 , that the Andorran government appointed a negotiating team . |
| 26 | Due to have been launched at this month 's Siggraph show in San Francisco , Kubota attributes the delay to the ‘ over-optimistic attitude of management , ’ and a too-tight timescale . |
| 27 | They seemed annoyed to have been woken in this manner , and Stephen demanded to know what the problem was . |
| 28 | They are sufficiently common to have been studied in several ancient civilisations , and are named after Diophantus of Alexandria who wrote a 13-volume treatise on arithmetic in about 250 AD . |
| 29 | Mr Jones , 55 , said : ‘ I am very surprised to have been selected for this award , but extremely pleased . ’ |