Example sentences of "[adj] to have be a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 She was a national leader in the W.C.T.U. ( Women 's Christian Temperance Union ) but in spite of her reputation for being austere , dogmatic and old-fashioned , I considered myself fortunate to have been a personal friend of Nellie McClung .
3 Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder .
4 Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation .
5 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 .
6 Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old .
7 It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south .
8 This reflects the fact that the commodities boom was highly generalized , and therefore unlikely to have been a freak coincidence of very different developments in different markets .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 They would obviously have some idea from the appeal hearing it itself but since they have to put all of their reasons for their request in writing the very least I believe they should be able to have is a reasoned reply .
12 My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer .
13 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 .
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