Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You have to have been a variety artist or a dependant , ’ says Elliott , formerly a dancer and the late Dick Emery 's manager .
2 Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts .
3 Ar are you saying that the defendant was , or ought to have been a conveyancing expert himself ?
4 The twelve paintings are remarkable for being executed on canvas when normally such representations were in fresco , but Ribera is known not to have been a fresco painter .
5 How many women can claim to have been a Tiller Girl ?
6 ‘ She was n't clean enough to have been a harem girl .
7 The only castings found were ingots , so this seems to have been a metal refinery .
8 In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent .
9 He also falsified his qualifications , including a Master of Business Administration diploma from the Madison Business School in the United States , and claimed to have been a Laker Airways manager and an executive with the failed Polly Peck international conglomerate .
10 Examination of recovered material shows it to have been a type I carbonaceous chondrite .
11 Cos there is there appears to have been a display kitchen at some stage .
12 SEEKING information on Peter Roberts , who I believe to have been a bomber pilot during World War Two .
13 ‘ There seems to have been a power failure , ’ a male voice replied .
14 In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group .
15 Believed to have crashed in October 1942 after a dogfight with a Luftwaffe fighter over occupied Normandy , the pilot is thought to have been a Fleet Air Arm Lieutenant .
16 This bayonet is supposed to have been a murder weapon .
17 We can assume that Jacques not only played the oboe but was also likely to have been a woodwind maker , as was his brother , Jean , who is noted in the Livre commode ( 1692 ) as being among the most highly regarded master makers of woodwinds .
18 Seems to have been a business meeting when the Treasurer presented his accounts showing a balance of £15 ; 12 ; 6½ .
19 Waterhole two , in January 1982 , was to have been a repeat performance .
20 Nearby is what is reputed to have been the Lorna Doone farm from the novel by RD Blackmore .
21 In 1168 the Lusignans were nothing like as rich or powerful as the Counts of Angoulême , who ruled what was in effect an independent principality in the heart of Aquitaine , and yet it was Lusignan which seems to have been the storm centre of the revolt .
22 He is presumed to have been the William Hickey whose death was recorded in London 31 May 1830 .
23 Nobody came to Britain , it would seem , whose only important town in the Middle Ages appears to have been the seaside resort of Brighton .
24 Christmas was to have been the turning point in a difficult year for the family .
25 Today was to have been the day judgement was delivered .
26 It seems almost wholly to have been the brain child of Gordon Thomas , appointed engineer to the Grand Junction Canal in 1894 and son of Hubert Thomas , general manager and clerk to the Grand Junction .
27 The supposed hub of this resupply operation was a top-secret overgrown airstrip at Santa Elena , in Costa Rica , said to have been the landing strip for Somoza 's aircraft when he stayed at his farm nearby .
28 There 's the Coventry Blitz , which was to have been the Ramsgate Blitz until problems with planning permission .
29 In a field on the north side of the A758 Ayr/Mauchline road , about a mile west of Failford , there is the site of a tumulus that is said to have been the burial place of King Coilus .
30 Out of the whole mess , Curtis took consolation from two factors — wounded and losing blood , the bastard would n't get far on foot , and into the bargain he had lost his knife — already on its way to Forensic , who would doubtless prove it to have been the murder weapon with which he had butchered his victims .
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