Example sentences of "[adj] to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impossible to have been self-inflicted . |
| 2 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |
| 3 | I suppose you 're lucky to have been happy , though , even for a short time . |
| 4 | Convergent evolution is likely to have been rampant . |
| 5 | These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations . |
| 6 | Outside the wall , except on the north side , where the river came to its foot , there appears to have been only a single ditch , some 6.5 m ( 21 ft ) wide and 2.5 m ( 8 ft ) deep , which had been truncated by the medieval ditch ; it is most likely to have been contemporary with the early rampart . |
| 7 | In origin such legislation is likely to have been similar to the Pactus pro tenore pacis , the edict of Chilperic I and the Decretio Childeberti , which were later attached to the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
| 8 | On Oswiu 's death , so far as we know , the succession passed peacefully to his son , Ecgfrith , but concern for what would happen on the death of Ecgfrith is likely to have been acute . |
| 9 | Our adjustment for these confounding factors meant that any remaining differences in perinatal mortality rates were more likely to have been due to differences in the care received by patients . |
| 10 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 11 | Dunning and Murphy have tried to argue that violent street-gangs , whose antics led to several alarmed inquiries around the turn of the century , were likely to have been present at football matches from the outset . |
| 12 | " It seems likely to have been well up-river , anyway . |
| 13 | Since on that occasion they were working with the approval of Fredegund they are likely to have been opposed to Brunhild . |
| 14 | The Tanat Valley Railway was at one time likely to have been involved in the grandiose proposal of 1845 concerning the West Midlands , Shrewsbury and Coast of Wales Railway Company . |
| 15 | This ability to live off poor vegetation is likely to have been crucial in the evolution of the mountain goat . |
| 16 | Fish are likely to have been able to detect sound from a very early period . |
| 17 | In fact , if one tried to think about it objectively , they were likely to have been able to make a more accurate assessment of his performance than he could himself . |
| 18 | Furthermore , an additional factor is likely to have been British support for Bridei , king of the Picts , as the son of Bili , former king of Strathclyde . |
| 19 | Copper was found in Crete itself , especially in the Asterousi mountains bordering the Mesara plain , and some may have come from Chrysokamino , near the coast east of Pachyammos , but the demand for metal artefacts is likely to have been high enough for imports of copper to be necessary . |
| 20 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 21 | Whitehall sources believe he is much more likely to have been concerned with such humdrum matters as integrating inter-departmental communications to prepare the ground for Civil Service computerization . |
| 22 | Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 23 | This represented a quite remarkable compromise which required the co-operation of Aethelred , king of the Mercians , who restored Wilfrid 's Mercian possessions , and Aelfflaed , abbess of Whitby , whose influence with King Aldfrith is likely to have been considerable ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) , but it may have been a manifestation of the insecurity of Aldfrith in the years immediately following his accession . |
| 24 | Gifts and legacies , which in early times had been very large , can not be assessed very precisely , but are likely to have been considerable . |
| 25 | Although he was a member of the supreme council of the IRB , and is supposed to have been present at a meeting in September 1914 at which it was decided to stage a rebellion against British rule in Ireland , he played no role in planning the Easter rising of 1916 . |
| 26 | I , yeah cos last time you when come over he was supposed to have been ill were n't he ? |
| 27 | Conditions in workhouses throughout the country were supposed to have been bad , but here , so I have been informed they were even worse . |
| 28 | Yeah supposed to have been bad , it were just er a con so he did n't have to go to college . |
| 29 | His death was supposed to have been messy , and there was a lot of realistic blood all over his costume . |
| 30 | None of this alters the fact that it is possible to use these adjectives with a tense value distinctively different from that of the preceding verb ; see ( 51 ) and the contrast in ( 52 ) : ( 51 ) we all know Cerrutty to have been fortunate ( 52 ) ( a ) in the test my men showed themselves alert ( b ) in the test my men showed themselves to have been alert In ( 52 ) , ( a ) would naturally be suitable when the men respond promptly during the test , and ( b ) when , for instance , they had been alert in paying attention to instructions given at some time before the test . |