Example sentences of "[verb] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you consider to have been Matisse 's most important contribution to modern art ? |
| 2 | The documents appear to have been working papers that were used for setting price caps for the authorities . |
| 3 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 4 | However , the only unauthorised visitors appear to have been souvenir hunters and men foraging among the stores . |
| 5 | There appear to have been trends in the fossil gymnosperms leading to increased protection of the ovules . |
| 6 | In most instances , they appear to have been sites where only tesserae for the repair and maintenance of completed mosaics were knapped and stored . |
| 7 | Ine was the patron of several churches in his kingdom — Malmesbury , Muchelney and Glastonbury appear to have been beneficiaries — and a genuine act of general exemption from secular burdens may lie behind the suspect extant privilege to West Saxon churches and monasteries of 704 ( CS 108 : S 245 ) . |
| 8 | Since then , growth rates appear to have been exponential ( see Figs 1–4 ) . |
| 9 | Edwin Land successfully marketed Polaroid and Bakeland began a new industry with Bakelite but they appear to have been exceptions . |
| 10 | Both these divisions , however , appear to have been exceptions to the normal pattern , since they raised issues concerning the Union with Scotland , complex legal technicalities , as well as personal questions of sympathy for or antipathy towards the individuals concerned , all of which placed strains on the normal political sympathies of the different peers . |
| 11 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 12 | [ Except that it was n't snowing , because this has to have been November . |
| 13 | It is reported to have been £1 million . |
| 14 | On Feb. 21 , arson attacks against three department stores in Frankfurt were reported to have been protests against western involvement in the Gulf . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For whatever reason , Neil , who had almost looked forward to relieving his body 's urgent demands — he seemed to have been continent for years , and McAllister 's arrival in Vetch Street had most inconveniently revived his dormant senses — found that he was disgusted with himself most of all . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yet in one sense even the United States might be said to have been part of an economic system controlled by Europe down to 1914 in that she remained a capital-importing nation , and that capital came from Europe . |
| 20 | New York collector Leonard Lauder paid what is said to have been $25 million for some of the finest remaining works , including Braque 's ‘ Still life with mandoline and metronome ’ ( 1909–10 ) and Gris 's ‘ Portrait of the artist 's mother ’ ( 1912 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 23 | Faramund , who is later said to have been Chlodio 's father , is not attested in any early source . |
| 24 | If this does occur , then the Act will be seen to have been part of a ‘ softening-up ’ exercise , creating the conditions within which abolition of the right is capable of being presented as an inevitable rationalization , without actually tackling it directly . |
| 25 | If one looks at the matter in terms of the number of Directives related to trade and competition issued by the Commission , then undoubtedly there is seen to have been progress . |
| 26 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 27 | All he had ‘ known ’ when they had first met had been lust , pure and simple . |
| 28 | The most popular drug used has been piperazine although this is being superseded by the benzimidazoles , fenbendazole and mebendazole and by nitroscanate . |
| 29 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 30 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |