Example sentences of "to have be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury . |
| 2 | There appears to have been a general feeling among them that there was no real problem on this score . |
| 3 | ‘ Twenty years ago I would have liked to have been a cook elsewhere , ’ she admits . |
| 4 | This plan came to grief , however , when Waters , in an attempt to establish friendly relations , gave a prospective producer a copy of one of his books , which showed the idiosyncratic director palling up with one of Charles Manson 's gang — a gesture which was in even worse taste than it might sound , as the producer proved to have been a good friend of one of the gang 's victims . |
| 5 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 6 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 7 | He is alleged to have been a key figure in virtually all aspects of the Guinness affair . |
| 8 | He said there did not appear to have been a break-in . |
| 9 | Yet he claims to have been a late developer in many respects , a dreamy boy who grew up absorbed in cricket and poetry , still unaware , at Oxford in 1939 , of anti-Semitism in Germany . |
| 10 | While the prices of average properties have followed the normal pattern , there does seem to have been a shift in the relative values of ‘ up-market ’ or ‘ prime ’ properties . |
| 11 | The author of that book seems to me to have been a very sick man indeed . ’ |
| 12 | His entire career in industry seems to have been a series of opportunities seized with relish . |
| 13 | Lack of academic training does not appear to have been a handicap for Roddick . |
| 14 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 15 | There seems to have been a hierarchy of colours , ranging from grey , to red for the principal rooms . |
| 16 | Hindsight may show this to have been a pivotal meeting . |
| 17 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 18 | Too unsettled to have been a torturer . |
| 19 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 20 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 21 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 22 | It forbore from interfering in August when the funeral of a dissident cleric ( killed in what appears to have been a genuine road accident ) turned into an anti-government rally . |
| 23 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 24 | Additionally , and of equal significance , is the fact that within the overall blood taboo context there seems to have been a clear and hierarchical distinction made between male blood and female blood . |
| 25 | Goldie , the Blue Peter dog , was pet of the year in 1981 and was deemed to have been a substitute pet for many youngsters unable to keep pets of their own at home . |
| 26 | He admitted to have been a virgin at twenty-two . |
| 27 | The resulting film , Royal Family ( or ‘ Corgi and Beth ’ as it was nicknamed ) , in which , among other things , the Queen was shown cooking the steaks at a barbecue , was revolutionary in its revelations , and considered inside the Palace to have been a public relations triumph . |
| 28 | His psyche had chosen to fly during what was to have been a two-week visit at their flat rather than fifteen storeys up in his own dismal , run-down tower block , alone with his nagging wife . |
| 29 | The Rutland jurors again asserted that King John , who seems to have been cast by popular tradition as the villain of the piece , had afforested the greater part of the forest in that country , whereas it seems in fact to have been a creation of Henry I. In Exmoor , the Buckinghamshire part of Bernwood , Cumberland , Worcestershire and Wiltshire the perambulations of 1300 demanded more extensive disafforestments than ever before : more than half the forest area that remained in England was declared to be outside the ancient bounds . |
| 30 | Sympathisers of the Mujahideen , who are denounced as ‘ hypocrites ’ by Teheran for their attempt to weld Marxist and Islamic ideology , later rampaged through several Iranian embassies in what appears to have been a co-ordinated raid . |