Example sentences of "[adj] to have [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , Hickey includes many conversational passages that purport to be verbatim records , but must be reconstructions of what Hickey thought was appropriate to have been said on the occasion . |
| 2 | The conductor and pianist Myung Whun Chung , director of the Opéra-Bastille , writes : We have all been fortunate to have been touched by the spirit of Olivier Messiaen through his music and I , personally , also by his human qualities . |
| 3 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 4 | I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit , overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the ‘ jolly ’ , but someone ‘ pulled rank ’ and took my place , thus saving my life and losing his . |
| 5 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 6 | These problems have been compounded in the 1980s by the government 's encouragement of the sale of council houses and by the rise in house prices in the owner-occupied sector , so that the acceleration in the urban-rural shift in the mid 1980s is not likely to have been caused by the lower paid . |
| 7 | Some of the decline in compliance , says the report , is likely to have been caused by the cooler , wetter conditions of 1991 , resulting in a lower rate of " die-off " of bacteria , and an increase in the frequency in operation of storm overflows , which generally do not have any treatment to reduce bacterial numbers . |
| 8 | The contracts for which consents are required are likely to have been revealed by the purchaser 's due diligence exercise and by the vendor 's disclosures . |
| 9 | Ellwood et al. ( 1980 ) , however , argued that when the maximum depth of burial ( estimated at 12 km ) and age are taken into account , the sediments underlying the Piedmont , though not as altered as the surface rocks , are likely to have been raised to the greenschist phase of metamorphism and so presumably have little remaining hydrocarbon potential . |
| 10 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 11 | The word means flower in Persian , but is perhaps more likely to have been derived from the ancient Turkish word for family or clan . |
| 12 | The tools used were most likely to have been produced by the village blacksmith and would have included saws , chisels , special shaped gouges , templates for mouldings and various sized drills and scrapers . |
| 13 | The senses of polysemous words ( such as ’ charge ’ or ’ rate ’ ) are therefore most likely to have been used in the sense related to financial affairs . |
| 14 | However , it may be possible to get some idea about the information that was likely to have been used in the recognition studies by simply asking people to describe the films . |
| 15 | These were most likely to have been zeroed by the action of sunlight prior to their deposition on the sea bed . |
| 16 | Here business was likely to have been dislocated by the arrest of the king 's secretary Oliver King on 13 June , but departments without that problem show a comparable running down of business . |
| 17 | Here business was likely to have been dislocated by the arrest of the king 's secretary Oliver King on 13 June , but departments without that problem show a comparable running down of business . |
| 18 | At most , the prosecution witness is obliged to testify that there was a person present or in the vicinity who was likely to have been subjected to the sensations described . |
| 19 | Yet he was also obstinate , even perverse ; his translations would have been less likely to have been seized by the authorities had they not been accompanied by the contentious marginal comments . |
| 20 | you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale . |
| 21 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 22 | The patriarchs of that distant agrarian culture are supposed to have been motivated by the rights of farm animals to do what comes naturally to them . |
| 23 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 24 | The earliest record of Prague is supposed to have been documented in the 9th century . |
| 25 | I am not sure whether John was aware of a tradition among some of his distant cousins that the family originated from Poland , possibly in a Count Cranko , romantically supposed to have been descended from the founder of the city of Krakow . |
| 26 | Road signs were supposed to have been erected at the mouth of the carriageway as soon as Benin 's car had passed through , warning motorists of an impending dynamite blast and rerouting them on to another section of the motorway . |
| 27 | ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’ |
| 28 | These cats were supposed to have been obtained by the Spanish captain from some unspecified source in the Middle East . |
| 29 | ‘ You can take it from me , Titron was supposed to have been melted off the face of the earth . |
| 30 | The Carlow Stone on the shore is supposed to have been hurled at the selfish inhabitants of the village by a giant . |