Example sentences of "to have been the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many newspapers compile lists of what they consider to have been the best novels of the previous year — a useful guide to what readers might try to get hold of . |
| 2 | ‘ Hendrique was reputed to have been the best student ever to graduate from Balashikha . |
| 3 | He is said to have been the joint author , with Donaldson , of the Commissioner 's design for the Crystal Palace in 1850 . |
| 4 | The tapered-sided gable-lidded coffin was being challenged by the new single-break flat-lidded shell , though it appears only to have been the middle classes who focused attention on style . |
| 5 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 6 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
| 7 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
| 8 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 9 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 10 | Reputed to have been the first man to fly under a bridge , Thaw had the face , physique and drinking habits of a Hemingway ; after being wounded , his arm froze — to the rough mirth of the squadron — permanently in the crooked position . |
| 11 | This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income . |
| 12 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 13 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 14 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 15 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 16 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 17 | The decision was believed to have been the first time that a US court had extended prisoner of war status to a convicted criminal . |
| 18 | Harris 's death , scheduled for 3 a.m. on April 3 , was to have been the first execution in the state of California since 1967 . |
| 19 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 20 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 21 | The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman . |
| 22 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 23 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 24 | ‘ Tonight seems to have been the final dress rehearsal before Wednesday . |
| 25 | But he has failed to command a regular place during Graeme Souness 's reign as manager and the signing of Nigel Clough looks to have been the final straw for Ronny . |
| 26 | In the two volunteers reported to have HLA-B35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . |
| 27 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 28 | An early occupant is said to have been the villainous Lord Soulis , who in the ballad of the Cout of Keilder forces the head of his noble visitor under a pool in the Hermitage Water to drown him . |
| 29 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
| 30 | Whatever fire he may have had in his belly , it hardly seems to have been the religious fire of his Frome forebears . |