Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [art] [noun] of " 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 | But Fermi requires there to have been a change of sign . |
| 4 | There seems to have been a hierarchy of colours , ranging from grey , to red for the principal rooms . |
| 5 | There would seem to have been a shortage of silver in Northumbria from the 790s on , certainly for minting purposes . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He seems to have been a bit of a wastrel , from what Kebbel told us . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He seems to have been a bit of a ladies ’ man — ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But toleration of large numbers of reversioners seems to have been a feature of the reign of James I rather than the Tudors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His will , executed on 12 December 1760 , shows him to have been a man of substance . |
| 17 | The widow , a Quaker , would seem to have been a devotee of herbal medicine and various other quack cures . |
| 18 | It seems to have been a case of mistaken identity . ’ |
| 19 | The plant was to have been a symbol of the Aquino government 's success in convincing Japanese companies of the country 's political stability . |
| 20 | Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment . |
| 21 | In the middle of a prime corn-growing district , Chichester is unlikely to have been a centre of putting out ; high wages there probably showed the influence of a craft-based manufacture , though on too small a scale to have any marked effect on the level and distribution of wealth . |
| 22 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 23 | From discussions within a racially mixed group of sixty pupils , both from the fourth and fifth year , there seems to have been a consensus of opinion that the streaming system does not truly reflect ability . |
| 24 | The breakthrough against the NPA was believed to have been a result of information seized in August 1990 when NPA operations chief Afredo Simbulan was arrested . |
| 25 | The event was meant to have been a demonstration of the balloonist 's art and the accident was dismissed by the organisers as the exception which proves the rule . |
| 26 | At the offices of Faber and Faber , also , there seems to have been a succession of jokes ( firecrackers in the coal scuttle on the Fourth of July ) and spoof letters . |
| 27 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 28 | The bombardment destroyed our first system , of course , and there seem to have been a lot of gas shells landing amongst our gunners — those that were n't killed — and they say the Hun did a lot of damage with his trench mortars and those awful Minenwerfers . |
| 29 | Well , there seems to have been a lot of ill-advice about . |
| 30 | I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then . |