Example sentences of "[to-vb] been the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby is what is reputed to have been the Lorna Doone farm from the novel by RD Blackmore . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He is presumed to have been the William Hickey whose death was recorded in London 31 May 1830 . |
| 4 | Nobody came to Britain , it would seem , whose only important town in the Middle Ages appears to have been the seaside resort of Brighton . |
| 5 | Christmas was to have been the turning point in a difficult year for the family . |
| 6 | Today was to have been the day judgement was delivered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There 's the Coventry Blitz , which was to have been the Ramsgate Blitz until problems with planning permission . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That ought to have been the World Bank 's priority all along . |