Example sentences of "to have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 2 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 3 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 4 | One such well found when workmen were levelling the ground in Upper Halling was estimated to have been 200 ft deep , and bricked as far down as one could see . |
| 5 | Mr. West had in fact calculated its weight to have been 1,771 tons . |
| 6 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 7 | Indeed , his only problem seems to have been chronic constipation . |
| 8 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |
| 9 | Who is the only man in the 20th Century to have been Prime Minister under three different monarchs ? |
| 10 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 11 | One aspect of the landscape revolution which this entailed appears to have been major drainage works , which drastically modified the stream between the two villages , to create what is now known as the Maxey Cut . |
| 12 | It is difficult to be certain from the passage whether Hezarfen believes there to have been official muftiliks at all in the fifteenth century , but he is clear on the point that the arrangements for whether formal or informal , were similar in the three cities . |
| 13 | All-white juries failed to reach a verdict in his two trials in 1964 [ see p. 20209 ] , but new witnesses came forward with evidence of his whereabouts on the night of the killing in Jackson , contradicting his claims to have been 95 miles away in Greenwood . |
| 14 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |
| 15 | The elusive nature of the reactions seen in food intolerance makes it difficult to rule out this diagnosis without very thorough testing , and there seems to have been undue reliance on skin-prick tests in this study , despite the fact that these are unreliable indicators in most cases of food sensitivity . |
| 16 | An Air India jet is widely presumed to have been emptive strike . |
| 17 | The collective effective dose equivalent commitment from the release is estimated to have been 1.2 x 10 3 man Sv . |
| 18 | In " A " Ltd v " B " Ltd [ 1992 ] CLJ p263 H H Judge Davies QC , dealing with Official Referee 's Business , declined to follow Fryer 's case , purporting to distinguish it and holding the relevant passages of the Court of Appeal 's judgments to have been obiter dicta . |
| 19 | By comparison , the mean global temperature during the last ice age is estimated to have been 4 ° C colder than it is today . |
| 20 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 21 | I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was |
| 22 | It was not a lesson , according to Mayhew , that the poor in fact needed to learn , for he finds the same scrupulous cleanliness in the poorest of London tenements , where every object in sight from chairs to children seems to have been that moment newly scrubbed . |
| 23 | The main argument of postmodernists who have sympathies with the political left seems to have been that postmodernism can be supportive of a left politics rooted in principles of pluralism and ‘ difference ’ . |
| 24 | In McKerrel v Robertson [ 1956 ] SLT 290 a woman pushing a pram was held to have been one entity and precedence should have been accorded where the pram was on the crossing but the pusher was still on the pavement . |
| 25 | It would have to have been one hell of a continuous storm , and there is nothing in my readings , satellite scan or computer print-out , to suggest that . ’ |
| 26 | Whereas in 1890 there were said to have been two councils , by 1901 there were 720 . |
| 27 | It was too much of a coincidence for there to have been two wrecks of similar size and age . |
| 28 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 29 | In 1938 there seem to have been tentative discussions with the Colonial Office over a sell-out to the British government . |
| 30 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |