Example sentences of "[verb] to have been [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler . |
| 2 | The Patel community was said to have been founded around 1700 , when six brothers from Persia settled in six villages in the fertile Charotar region of Gujerat . |
| 3 | But if I am honest I would like to have been born perhaps six or seven years later . |
| 4 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 5 | Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection . |
| 6 | The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date . |
| 7 | Supplied by Edwin Foden , Engineers of Sandbach in Cheshire , it is thought to have been built around 1870 . |
| 8 | In Europe the only flows of any consequence occur on small volcanic islands in the Mediterranean , the most famous of all being those on the island of Lipari , which are thought to have been erupted about 1,400 years ago . |
| 9 | The former boys school is thought to have been founded about 1670 by a member of the Boynton family . |
| 10 | The earliest French works now accepted as fabliaux date from the last decade of the twelfth century and the latest seem to have been composed about 150 years later , somewhere around 1340 . |
| 11 | I was enthralled , driving through rural Moravia , Bohemia and Hungary , to see houses which seem to have been preserved almost unchanged since their heyday . |
| 12 | It is interesting that Patrick 's activity seems to have been dictated as much by personal disillusion or disappointment as by religious fervour . |
| 13 | Reaction was firmly enthroned , and when during the parliamentary debate on the Security from Violence Bill one MP voiced the belief that ‘ the want of employment was the parent of crime ’ , this seems to have been regarded as little more than a sentimental eccentricity . |
| 14 | possible evidence for this view can be seen in the only surviving thirteenth-century picture of a Western water-clock , which seems to have been used about 1250 in Paris at the court of Louis IX . |
| 15 | , Samuel ( c. 1797–1848 ) , actor and comedian , is believed to have been born around 1797 , but nothing is known about his parentage or background . |
| 16 | The fort is believed to have been constructed about four centuries before Christ by an Iron Age Celtic society . |
| 17 | However , the quota limits , determined largely by commercial considerations , are now believed to have been set too high . |
| 18 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |