Example sentences of "to have been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive .
2 The idea bears some analogy to the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community which brought these industries under an international authority to defuse the conflict of interest between Germany and France which was held to have been responsible for two world wars .
3 Payne , Whitson and Varga are believed to have been responsible for much of the consortium 's recent sales of its catalogue and anti-NT white paper , a source of revenue .
4 Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents .
5 Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 .
6 This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s .
7 Experts remain divided on the question of Dr Proctor 's state of mind during the period when he is confirmed to have been responsible for seven hundred and fifty-three homicides , but the Supreme Court has ruled him insane and irresponsible .
8 It seems to have been unusual for any girl to go beyond straight typesetting to learn much about the other processes at this stage : a crucial point .
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