Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their mother seemed already to have been in hospital for most of their lives , Alexander and Victoria saw no change and since the family followed the form of their class and delegated the day-to-day care of their children entirely to the nanny , the absence of their mother hardly affected their lives . |
| 2 | The actual women themselves — or rather girls , for they seem mainly to have been under 18-who worked in these experimental offices , are not heard in the debate , silenced not so much by their sex perhaps , as by their mostly humble circumstances and extreme youth and inexperience . |
| 3 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 4 | This explains , says the professor , why all Archer 's characters seem never to have been through the growing-up process . |
| 5 | That environmentalism may be superseded in schools , as it appears largely to have been in universities , by the locational analysis school is no guarantee of a more appropriate form of explanation . |
| 6 | In Zeus 's other great sanctuary , at Dodona in the north , he seems likewise to have been without a temple until the fifth century ; perhaps it is a function of his ancient role as sky-god . |
| 7 | His salary should have been adequate , with the perquisites of office , and though salaries were often not paid promptly , he seems never to have been in need . |
| 8 | A parliamentary committee in 1799 considered there to have been between 4,000 and 5,000 women working at copper mines , but this was an overestimate for an enumeration of 1838 , after a considerable expansion , counted 4,526 . |