Example sentences of "[adv] to have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of interest , I once met a forensic scientist fortunate enough to have been present during a research experiment in which a mummy was unwrapped . |
| 2 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |
| 3 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 4 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 5 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 6 | In short , the whole business has been carefully planned , even though the other disciples seem not to have been privy to the arrangement . |
| 7 | Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem . |
| 8 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |
| 9 | A surgeon who immediately welcomed news of chloroform could reasonably claim always to have been aware of the pain although he had disciplined himself not to heed it . |
| 10 | For every good read , like Harry Harrison 's Plague from Space I ( 1966 ) — in which an apparently natural infection turns out to have been tailor-made for Homosapiens by odious extraterrestrials — there are countless bum offerings . |
| 11 | He seems never to have been close to his sister . |