Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon will become meaningless , ’ grieves the new edition , widely expected to have been posthumous . |
| 2 | Aid workers in Somalia , including those with UN agencies , were widely reported to have been dismayed by the prospect of a US-led military intervention . |
| 3 | Although some may be quick to say that the vast majority of the book was actually written by Bullett , and not by Freud , no less than the actual intellectual framework of the book apparently seems to have been due to Freud 's input , er , Freud certainly was psychoanalytically trained , in any , in any sense of the word . |
| 4 | Failure to do so seems to have been fatal to the employer 's case . |
| 5 | The Labyrinth at Knossos is generally recognized to have been one of the greatest architectural achievements of the ancient world . |
| 6 | The action of the Sandinista-controlled Army ( EPS ) , in obeying a government order and clearing the barricades away on July 10 , and the constitutional loyalty also of the police force ( which was similarly linked with the FSLN ) , was generally considered to have been crucial to the government 's survival . |
| 7 | The £90 invested in baking ingredients was soon seen to have been good sterdship , for the unfailing supply of beautiful baking was a marvel . |
| 8 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 9 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 10 | The limited experiment was widely thought to have been successful . |
| 11 | Relations between staff and management on the GWR were always thought to have been good , but the film calls that view into question . |
| 12 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 13 | Whatever the base we take , yesterday 's education always appears to have been golden . |
| 14 | Another is that some guesses were quickly proved to have been wrong and ended up in bankruptcy . |
| 15 | By then Harald is usually assumed to have been dead . |
| 16 | I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed . |
| 17 | The palaeoenvironments also appear to have been little different from those of the afropithecins , with closed woodland-forest indicated for Fort Ternan , although some authors infer open country or even grassland for this site . |
| 18 | There also seem to have been considerable baseline imbalances in the trial reported by Kinmond and colleagues , judged on the few characteristics described in table I , and so the same concerns must apply . |
| 19 | Old William Cranko and his nephew Frederick both seem to have been fond of feminine company . |
| 20 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
| 21 | 681 ( CS 61 : S 236 ) , was still reigning in 688 ( CS 71 : S 1170 ) , and Cenred , the father of Ine , also appears to have been ruling as a king somewhere in Wessex in Ine 's early years ( CS 78 : S 45 ) |
| 22 | There also appears to have been some confusion over photo credits : the colour photo on page 507 was actually taken by this reviewer , but is one of a number of photos incorrectly credited to another person . |
| 23 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 24 | It also seems to have been customary at the death of a scholar for those of his students who were sufficiently advanced in their studies to become . |
| 25 | Edward IV also seems to have been interested in broadening the constable 's jurisdiction to cover other forms of treason and disaffection . |
| 26 | Edward IV also seems to have been interested in broadening the constable 's jurisdiction to cover other forms of treason and disaffection . |
| 27 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 28 | Barco , although widely rumoured to have been involved in the drafting of the open letter , stated on Jan. 19 that the war against the cartels would continue in order to " assure the final success of the government 's policy " . |
| 29 | Contemporaries often appear to have been uncertain as to how best to describe the political structure of their day . |
| 30 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |