Example sentences of "to have [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 2 | Unrest had surfaced in Lincolnshire in late February and proved to have been fomented by Clarence and Warwick with the aim of placing Clarence on the throne . |
| 3 | MADONNA is the latest high profile performer to have been cited by US presidential candidate Bill Clinton in his quest to court young voters . |
| 4 | Cadwallon has gathered a victorious host and appears to have been encamped on Môn ( Anglesey ) with a fleet nearby . |
| 5 | It is pleasing to report the purchase during the year from the private owner of twenty-four half-sheets of a copy of Breviarium Aberdonense ( Edinburgh , 1509–10 ) , generally known as the Aberdeen Breviary , the earliest surviving substantial work known to have been printed in Scotland . |
| 6 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 7 | An extremely important item , housed in the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna , is the pure silk Hunting carpet , believed to have been given to Emperor Leopold I by Peter the Great . |
| 8 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 9 | In addition , Mrs Jones was dissatisfied that little attention appeared to have been given to Tom 's problems in school . |
| 10 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 11 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 12 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 13 | Geoffrey Dudgeon , 35 — on the run from a Leicester jail when James Doy was shot dead last week in Rotherham — was reported to have been seen in Southampton . |
| 14 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 15 | These examples clearly demonstrate that the scenes existed but they were hardly likely to have been seen by stone masons or potters to copy . |
| 16 | Often assumed to have been lost during World War II , East Berlin 's historical research archives , like its art collections , have actually survived in remarkable completeness . |
| 17 | Though there is an element of ambiguity about the whereabouts of Wilfrid 's see , it is most likely that Ealhfrith intended him to be bishop of York , the significance of which is unlikely to have been lost on Wilfrid and his royal patron if Pope Gregory 's original plan to establish York as an archbishopric was known to them . |
| 18 | postmistress of Steepways ; Hugh , her eldest son , at first believed to have been lost at sea but who later reappears ; Margaret , his wife ; their daughter ; Alfred , Hugh 's younger brother , who helps Captain Jorgan to solve the mystery about his late father 's life-savings ; Jorgan , his infant son by his wife Kitty . |
| 19 | ( ‘ If the Subject appears to have been lost by accident continue in the direction the Subject was proceeding . ’ ) |
| 20 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 21 | Around them lay the wreckage from the most costly gamble in British history — with a third of the nation 's foreign reserves thought to have been lost in Mr Lamont 's battle to protect sterling . |
| 22 | Very little to date seems to have been written about schema identification . |
| 23 | The family had obviously taken its name from the land-holding and at some stage this was likely to have been written as de Forstershey , or something very similar . |
| 24 | For the latter , however , he was able to draw on a set of annals which seems to have been written in Angers , to judge from the use of the Latin verb venire ( to come ) with reference to that city . |
| 25 | ‘ The whole journal appears to have been written in South Africa but he moved to Cape Province , and from later entries it seems he was in contact with Cecil Rhodes … ’ |
| 26 | Similarly , this novel seems to have been written in reaction to Jacobson 's enforced designation as a ‘ comic novelist ’ : a sort of cross between Kingsley Amis , Tom Sharpe and Woody Allen . |
| 27 | These papers were a series of articles published in 1787 and 1788 to persuade the citizens of New York to ratify the U.S. Constitution ; most of the papers were known to have been written by Hamilton or by Madison , but the authorship of twelve of them was disputed . |
| 28 | The copious footnotes to the recipes in this book were believed by his contemporaries to have been written by Sir Walter Scott . |
| 29 | In their second petition , which appears to have been written by Chidley , they justified their political activity on the basis of ‘ our creation in the image of God , and of an interest in Christ equal unto men , as also of a proportionable share in the freedoms of this commonwealth . ’ |
| 30 | The Cambridge Theatre Company 's production of The Revengers Tragedy — a work believed by some to have been written by Thomas Middleton , others by Cyril Tourneur — opened this week at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford where it runs until tomorrow ( Saturday ) before transferring on its tour to the Theatre Royal , Winchester from Tuesday to Saturday next week . |