Example sentences of "to have been [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result , stretching west from Hedeby , whose semicircular defences also seem to have been renewed at this time , was a rampart over eight miles long , about thirteen yards wide , and nearly ten feet high , not counting the wooden palisade with which it was presumably crowned . |
| 4 | The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more . |
| 5 | June 28 : Douglas DC–6B YU–AFF is now reported not to have been damaged at all during the fighting at Ljubljana Airport . |
| 6 | In my judgment , this was an order which ought never to have been made at any stage of the case . |
| 7 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 8 | The door appears to have been entered at first floor level . |
| 9 | As the barge swept silently towards the docking bay , Rostov noted the clusters of scanners and other unidentifiable telemetry which appeared to have been attached at random to the hull . |
| 10 | Due to have been launched at this month 's Siggraph show in San Francisco , Kubota attributes the delay to the ‘ over-optimistic attitude of management , ’ and a too-tight timescale . |
| 11 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 12 | " Tipped , " Timothy Gedge said , the word appearing to have been chosen at random . |
| 13 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 14 | It is known to have been held at some time ‘ on a Thursday with only four people there ’ . |