Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
| 2 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 3 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
| 9 | Faint praise for what was supposed to have been a serious scientific work ! |