Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effortful shepherding of one 's confusion and faint nausea , which I assumed was the basic existential package , turns out to have been a temporary condition . |
| 2 | A merger often turns out to have been a bad move for one of the firms involved . |
| 3 | One of their more innocent victims turns out to have been the common house fly . |
| 4 | The tapered-sided gable-lidded coffin was being challenged by the new single-break flat-lidded shell , though it appears only to have been the middle classes who focused attention on style . |
| 5 | As yet this seems not to have been a frequent occurrence and the request was successfully rebuffed by some abbots of religious houses which did not own the king as patron , but a door had been opened which subsequent monarchs were to push far wider . |
| 6 | Dr Snell considers there to have been no downward movement in female servants ' wages after mid century in the western pastoral counties of Monmouth , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Shropshire , Gloucestershire , Brecon , Glamorgan , Somerset , Wiltshire , Devon and Dorset . |