Example sentences of "to have been [noun] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As both organizations were undergoing far-reaching reforms , a tightly specified brief was not required and , in the event , it seems to have been changes in the Foreign Office structure which led to the abandonment of that part of the competition . |
| 2 | A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family . |
| 3 | Her shoes , posture , and proportions have a strange economic significance , since they all seem to have been factors in her dismissal . |
| 4 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 5 | There appear to have been trends in the fossil gymnosperms leading to increased protection of the ovules . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you believe there to have been illegality in the running of the club affairs ? ’ |