Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to have been a reasonable kind of mother to Jenny ; at least she had n't stimulated any of the strong resentments which seemed to lie uneasily dormant in most daughters , especially those very fond of their fathers . |
| 2 | There seemed to have been a real shift from the closed systems of resource allocation that tended to exist before devolution , systems where a person , usually the head , made all the decision about capitation . |
| 3 | However unbelievable , it had to have been the little mestizo . |
| 4 | With his deeply ingrained Catholic convictions and his belief in his role as God 's warrior , Franco could not tolerate what he considered to have been a religious and moral , as well as a political , betrayal . |
| 5 | In the latest in a series of incidents , an animal grazing on Mithian Downs , near St Agnes , Cornwall , was wounded on its forehead by what appeared to have been a sharp instrument . |