Example sentences of "to have been a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to have been a nice little earner . |
| 2 | They coincided with what appears to have been a sharp last-minute swing to the Tories — a swing of between 2 and 4 per cent in the final week of the campaign . |
| 3 | Family restriction , by cutting down on labour costs , accelerated middle-class living standards , and this seems likely to have been a major contributory factor to decisions to limit family size . |
| 4 | He is also said to have been a good Greek scholar and a poor preacher , and it is clear that he was retiring and modest . |
| 5 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |
| 6 | Although Hogarth called Ramsay ‘ Phizmongers ’ and ‘ another face painter from abroad ’ , there seems to have been a genuine mutual regard between them , and their combined efforts literally changed the face of British portraiture . |
| 7 | An expensive colour photocopier is believed to have been used by the forgers to copy what is thought to have been a genuine blank MOT form . |
| 8 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 9 | In England there was to have been a four-year transitional period , commencing in 1990 , during which the community charge would have been gradually introduced and rates phased out , but the Secretary of State , in response to pressure from his own party , agreed late in 1987 that with the exception of a handful of London boroughs ( where some flexibility remains ) the community charge should be introduced throughout England in 1990 without any phasing-in period . |
| 10 | To judge from what little evidence survives , there seems to have been a strong dynastic element involved in Zealot leadership . |
| 11 | Faint praise for what was supposed to have been a serious scientific work ! |
| 12 | The popular response to Luchembe 's broadcasts , however , was thought to have been a severe personal blow to Kaunda , the " father of the nation " . |
| 13 | Bicester seems to have been a medieval planted town probably laid out around 1239 along the then main road through the area , the Aylesbury to Banbury road ( A41 ) . |
| 14 | I affirm it to have been a fine active stock of books which ought to be available in any good library service … |
| 15 | The weakness , if not incompetence , of the opposition would appear to have been an important contributory factor in Ronald Reagan 's astonishing early success in seizing control of the agenda in the manner of a Roosevelt or a Johnson , even almost of a prime minister . |