Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main London to Exeter ‘ road ’ was said to have been a quarter of a mile wide by the end of the winter where it crossed — or rather plunged through — the sticky morass of the chalk on Salisbury Plain . |
| 2 | Er there seems to have been a rash of resignations recently , it all started with David Gower , then Graham Taylor and last week we heard that Mary Whitehouse is standing down now it 's Joan and thank you Joan for your sterling work as ticket subscription secretary Joan reorganized the system and I 'm sure that whoever takes over from Joan will start with an immaculate set of facts and figures . |
| 3 | She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess . |
| 4 | There appears to have been a return to narrative , with more titles published and more copies sold ( although it must always be borne in mind that the Italian literary market is a relatively small one ) . |
| 5 | But Fermi requires there to have been a change of sign . |
| 6 | I think L was very fortunate to have been a child in the days when children could roam in woods and fields , unafraid , and when doors could be left unlocked ; when there was less traffic , less noise and less hectic rush . |
| 7 | In those days , simply being British seems to have been a passport to the higher circles of whatever country the traveller set foot in . |
| 8 | There seems to have been a hierarchy of colours , ranging from grey , to red for the principal rooms . |
| 9 | The statement was believed to have been a reference to a letter written by Hurd on Aug. 1 to the British Conservative MP , Sir Peter Blaker , underlining the UK government 's respect for Islam and adding that " we understand that the novel , The Satanic Verses , was found deeply offensive by people of the Islamic faith " . |
| 10 | There would seem to have been a shortage of silver in Northumbria from the 790s on , certainly for minting purposes . |
| 11 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 12 | The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management . |
| 13 | He admitted to have been a virgin at twenty-two . |
| 14 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 15 | looked down at her feet as she walked , finally admitted , a little ashamedly , that it was all true ; " I was wild , " she agreed in her slow , low voice , nodding , Graham felt a sort of ache then , as he had when Slater first told him ; he wanted to have known her then , to have been a part of her life during that time . |
| 16 | Reginald Oliffe , who 's 44 , was said in court at Cheltenham to have been a farmer for 25 years . |
| 17 | Margaret Hughes was said in court to have been a farmer for 40 years . |
| 18 | He seems to have been a bit of a wastrel , from what Kebbel told us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He seems to have been a bit of a ladies ’ man — ’ |
| 20 | The setting up , in 1991 , of the Ecole Nationale du Patrimoine , staffed mainly by art historians , has further demoted archaeological research ; the national plan for archaeology , which was to have been a blueprint for future research projects , has not yet received the promised funding of FFr17 million ( £1.7 million ; $2.9 million ) ; and their proposal that special forms of taxation be introduced to pay for urgent excavations ( with priority given to the most deserving cases ) has not been taken up . |
| 21 | The human rights organization Amnesty International had called for a full investigation of the incident , thought to have been a reprisal for recent attacks by the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Azawad , which marked the collapse of a peace agreement signed in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 22 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 23 | And Ann , till the very end , seems somehow to have been a member of no chapel and yet of every chapel ; here she was , being afforded a burial service by courtesy of the Badcox congregation , yet being laid claim to at the same time by a neighbouring Dissenting church : Sheppards Barton Baptist Chapel registers include the entry : ‘ Anne Titford . |
| 24 | Coenwulf had several brothers and would seem to have been a member of a very powerful kindred , some of whose landed estates were centred on the region of Winchcombe , but none of his forebears had reigned as kings and Alcuin 's observations in a letter to the people of Kent in 797 that scarcely anyone was to be found now of the old stock of kings and the more obscure their origin , the less their courage , could certainly be construed as a slight on Coenwulf . |
| 25 | But toleration of large numbers of reversioners seems to have been a feature of the reign of James I rather than the Tudors . |
| 26 | The great reason for the Church of England 's perishing , if it does , will be seen to have been a lack of such a vision . |
| 27 | In seven cases there was acknowledged to have been a deterioration in the dependant 's condition , so that the principal carer accepted or had even requested institutional care . |
| 28 | Eventually neither proposal found favour , but they prove Francis Maginn to have been a man of vision and ahead of his times in his thinking . |
| 29 | His will , executed on 12 December 1760 , shows him to have been a man of substance . |
| 30 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |