Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abe was a prominent candidate for the leadership in October 1987 , but eventually withdrew in favour of Noboru Takeshita , in what was widely believed to have been an agreement that he would succeed Takeshita after his two-year term . |
| 2 | Police said that although the explosion was not thought to have been an accident no one was being sought . |
| 3 | A beneficent deity , Kukulkan was once held to have been a king from another land , who arrived in Yucatan by sea and elected to stay rather than risk the return voyage . |
| 4 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 5 | At the Seventh Congress of the Comintern in 1935 the trade union policy pursued since 1928 was tacitly admitted to have been a blunder . |
| 6 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 7 | He was initially given a senior position at the Command Centre in the United Nations but when the head of the European operation died in a car crash … which was subsequently proved to have been an accident and not sabotage as originally thought … |