Example sentences of "to have [been] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is believed to have been one of two armed men who last month hijacked a police car , prompting a manhunt over three Irish counties . |
| 2 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 3 | A few months after his death , I was asked to act as editor of this bicentenary history of the Royal Veterinary College , and I am proud to have been one of the team that has produced a book which I hope does justice to the author and to the College . |
| 4 | No works of art were produced by Miss Wise , nor was she heard of again after 1918 ; she is believed to have been one of the victims of the influenza epidemic of that time . |
| 5 | He had been well aware that she would dearly love to have been one of his girlfriends , more than willing to go to bed with him had he given her any encouragement , and was resentful of his relationship with Liza . |
| 6 | Seppings , who used to say ‘ partial strength produces general weakness ’ , seems to have been one of the first Naval Architects to have a clear mental picture of the stress systems in a ship 's hull . |
| 7 | With a passionate love of the visual arts , an intelligent partner to guide her purchases , and a large income to spend on pretty much any picture she fancied , Queen Victoria ought to have been one of the most distinguished of all royal collectors . |
| 8 | The sitter seems to have been one of the more vapid society cocottes who sat for Vigee-Lebrun . |
| 9 | I was privileged to have been one of the 28 guests , which included 11 veterans of the Tirpitz raids , who were invaded to attend these events . |
| 10 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 11 | The Labyrinth at Knossos is generally recognized to have been one of the greatest architectural achievements of the ancient world . |
| 12 | When , therefore , on 9 December 1949 , an amendment to the Military Aid Program bill proposed by the combined Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services sought to earmark the sum of $75 m. for what was eventually described as the ‘ general area of China ’ , in voting to cut the appropriation for the Military Assistance Program in half the House of Representatives may , as Acheson said , have been in one of its berserk moods ; but in order to save the Program , and its underpinning of the fledgling North Atlantic Alliance , Acheson was prepared to accept the amendment and , as he presents it , it seems to have been one of the easiest passages in that summer of difficult decisions . |
| 13 | From its first issue it identified itself as a coordinating centre for research in English studies , and indeed , the development of an identity based upon research for the discipline can be seen to have been one of its major functions . |
| 14 | In that historical sequence , some organisms , such as humans , have appeared only very recently , and their past ancestry seems to have been one of rapid and quite dramatic change . |
| 15 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |
| 16 | He is alleged to have been one of the first Scots to take a degree at Cambridge . |
| 17 | Although an ordained cleric , Hervey is said by a contemporary chronicler ( William of Rishanger ) to have been one of two standard-bearers of the men of London at the battle of Lewes in 1264 . |
| 18 | Kennett died 12 May 1782 with his sentence for neglect of duty , and a suit for defamation brought by Thomas Howard , third Earl of Effingham ( whom Kennett had alleged to have been one of the rioters ) , still outstanding . |
| 19 | Aristos of Salamis in Cyprus , who probably lived in the middle of the third century B.C. , is said by Arrian ( 7.15.5 ) to have been one of the two historians who not only spoke of an embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great , but made Alexander prophesy the future greatness of Rome , so impressed was he by the envoys . |
| 20 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 21 | The dissolution of the ITC came in the wake of what was alleged to have been one of the biggest cases of commercial default in recent history . |
| 22 | There were 62 defendants ; those sentenced to death included one sentenced in his absence , and also Aissa Messaoudi , known as Tayeb al-Afghani , an illiterate 32-year-old ex-driver and shepherd who was said to have been one of the ringleaders . |
| 23 | Bernard seems to have been one of those who swore that Pippin would come . |
| 24 | Lincoln , which on several occasions was totally exempted from paying , seems to have been one of the worst affected ( 71 ; 77 , pp.272–3 ) . |
| 25 | Brian Jardin , a Paisley University student , who is believed to have been one of the executive committee who did not support moves to expel Ronald Chalmers , was elected vice-chairman . |