Example sentences of "to have been [vb pp] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't believe that would be the practice , and therefore I believe the executive committee as the trustees and custodians on our behalf , in this matter , should take the responsibility , and I would have preferred the trustees rather than the Council to have been stated at that point . |
| 2 | Originally , the Seychelles kestrels nested in holes in the mountain crags but are said to have been ousted from that habitat by barn owls which were introduced to try and control the rat population . |
| 3 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 4 | ( The column , incidentally , seems summarily to have been removed from that crusty contest 's judiciary by a meat trade equivalent of the Lord Chancellor . ) |
| 5 | The analyses support the idea that the relocation of farms occurred quite frequently , with a considerable horizon of shifting settlement taking place in the 100 years around AD 700 , for nearly all early Anglo-Saxon settlements appear to have been abandoned during that period . |
| 6 | Think of your sister ; would you want her to have been forced into that way of life ? ’ |