Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her role must have been curiously akin to that of the executive businesswoman today , exercising the skills of management and delegation . |
| 2 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |
| 3 | It must have been especially significant to those who had entered the D & AD direct mail section , in which silver pencils have been notoriously few . |
| 4 | There were limits to the concentration of troops because of transportation , food supplies , and manoeuvring on the battlefield which must have been intuitively evident to any ancient general . |
| 5 | The limestone seems to be exactly the same as that at the head of the pass , so the seas in which it was laid down must surely have been very similar to those that produced fossiliferous rocks . |
| 6 | Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans . |
| 7 | It was a very moving experience which I 'm sure will have been spiritually beneficial to all who participated in it . ’ |