Example sentences of "to have been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the inter-war years the trend seems to have been towards increasing privatisation of the respectable working class family . |
| 2 | Whig Jacobitism , however , appears to have been of minimal significance in Scotland . |
| 3 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 4 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |
| 5 | Increasing EEC involvement in defence and foreign policy seems to have been of particular concern to the Danes . |
| 6 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 7 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 8 | This Bill was gazetted only two months after the closure of one of Tanzania 's few private political newspapers — the last paper which could be considered to have been in open opposition to the Government . |