Example sentences of "[adv] to have [been] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emergence of the satire movement in the early sixties ‘ marked a new stage in the social revolution ’ : ‘ Like the pop artists ( and the pop singers yet to come ) the satirists formed part of a new generation coming to the surface in English life , one young enough to have been moulded by the garish , anarchic and youth-conscious atmosphere of the late fifties … . ’ |
| 2 | If the girl had been killed locally , she is small enough to have been carried through the alleys — perhaps even by a woman . ’ |
| 3 | The significance of either of these factors varied from site to site ; at times cults appear largely to have been promoted by the Church hierarchy , or by a small group with a precise , often family , interest in the new saint — this seems to be the norm for the development of the cults of the aristocratic saints of the seventh century . |
| 4 | And of course , being a composer , I think it would be very hard not to have been influenced by The Beatles . ’ |
| 5 | Despite her questionable health , Leapor seems not to have been troubled by the physical demands of her work . |
| 6 | The requirements in Area union rules were held not to have been fulfilled by the NUM in Derbyshire and an order followed restraining the union from using funds in this connection . |
| 7 | Thus unreasonable or unusual terms may be held not to have been incorporated into the contract unless special notice of them is given in the contract ( Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 348 ) . |
| 8 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 9 | He can count himself lucky not to have been blamed for the bounce by his political masters . |
| 10 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |
| 11 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 12 | The highest price tag was £75,000 for an Elizabeth Frink horse , rumoured already to have been sold at the time of going to press . |
| 13 | Finding a way to include both the Scandinavian and the Višegrad states will be one of the greatest challenges ever to have been faced by the EEC . |
| 14 | The organisers of the Church National Housing Coalition described the lobby as one of the most effective political campaigns ever to have been undertaken by the Churches . |
| 15 | The organisers of the day ( the Churches of National Housing Coalition ) have hailed it as one of the most effective political campaigns ever to have been undertaken by the churches . |
| 16 | Comprising four large and seven small triptychs and fifty other works , it has been curated by Dr Rudy Chiappini , director of the Dicastero Musei e Cultura della Citta di Lugano , and private dealer Massimo Martino , and is the most important , in addition to being the only really international , exhibition ever to have been organised by the Lugano Municipal Arts Museum . |
| 17 | He was also to have been presented with the freedom of seven other British cities and districts , including Dundee and Midlothian . |
| 18 | For example , in the case of the West Midlands RMC , which was originally planned to have consisted of North Staffordshire and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , it is now based only on the former ; and , in contrast , the London RMC , which was originally to have been based on the Polytechnic of Central London , now encompasses five additional institutions . |
| 19 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 20 | In Calcutta the railway companies seem almost to have been overawed by the classical splendour of the Viceroy s palace and the great secretariat buildings dating from the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |