Example sentences of "[adj] to have been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Hindsight may show this to have been a pivotal meeting . |
2 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
3 | ‘ Atropine is confirmed , and far too much to have been a slight slip of the deadly nightshade . |
4 | She was a national leader in the W.C.T.U. ( Women 's Christian Temperance Union ) but in spite of her reputation for being austere , dogmatic and old-fashioned , I considered myself fortunate to have been a personal friend of Nellie McClung . |
5 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
6 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
7 | It appears that severity of illness or disability is likely to have been a critical variable , and in cases of severe disability , health would have been an overriding consideration . |
8 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
9 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
10 | Predictably , the survey showed 1992 to have been a flat year for the UK 's information technology businesses . |
11 | This reflects the fact that the commodities boom was highly generalized , and therefore unlikely to have been a freak coincidence of very different developments in different markets . |
12 | They conclude that there must be less than 5 x unc monopoles per sq.cm per steradian per second in the vicinity of the Earth , and that ‘ the Cabrera candidate is unlikely to have been a true monopole -induced event . ’ |
13 | On the debit side , there is unlikely to have been a significant shift of travel in such a small town from cars towards public transport or indeed towards the bicycle . |
14 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
15 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |