Example sentences of "to have [been] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 2 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 3 | He is thought to have been killed with a high-powered long-range rifle , possibly an American-made Barrett ( Light Fifty ) which has a range of up to 1,800 metres and fires half-inch rounds . |
| 4 | The unrest , which was connected with further proposed petrol price and bus fare increases and also involved student protests , was believed to have been caused by a Supreme Court decision not to proceed with corruption charges against various former ministers . |
| 5 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 6 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 7 | Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device . |
| 8 | She crouched down and jerked open the two doors , fully expecting the cupboard to have been converted into a homely little rat lair . |
| 9 | Unemployment remained high by historic standards ( a peak of 3.2 million being reached in April 1985 ) ; but somehow it appeared to have been defused as a major political issue during the eighties , partly through redundancy payments . |
| 10 | It gives copious detail on four cases where a total of $100m is alleged to have been misappropriated through a complex web of transactions around the world . |
| 11 | According to Roberts the money was , he tactfully put it , ‘ to have been employed on a special service for the late king ’ . |
| 12 | The offensive appeared , initially , to have been intended as a tactical show of strength designed to secure a better bargaining position in peace talks , due to resume on July 15 but " indefinitely suspended " by the government [ see p. 38283 ] . |
| 13 | Some are hazardous : for example , nitrates and radon , which is said to have been regarded as an invigorating tonic in some Italian mineral water . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items . |
| 15 | The final assault on Bijeljina was reported to have been led by a Serbian guerrilla leader known as Arkan , whose units fought in some of the most ferocious battles in Croatia . |
| 16 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 17 | Although yet greater extremes of poverty might be expected to exist in bigger towns , an outstanding feature of Chichester was the clearly higher level of wages effective there , with many artificers assessed at 40s. a year , though these were sure to have been balanced by an anonymous mass of recorded paupers . |
| 18 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 19 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 20 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 21 | Our research is not complete , and your report appears to have been based on a brief article in a farming journal . |
| 22 | One of the most important concerns the ending , which was to have been based on an Old Believer melody Mussorgsky had taken down from a friend . |
| 23 | While a beneficiary of Aethelwealh 's patronage , however , Wilfrid is said to have been sought as a spiritual father by Caedwalla ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 42 ) . |
| 24 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 25 | The village is thought to have been named after a Roman officer , Amboniacus , at the time when the Emperor Probus ordered the replanting of vineyards throughout Gaul . |
| 26 | one with hinged leaves or flaps which can be folded ; said to have been named after an eighteenth-century Earl of Pembroke . |
| 27 | Here , as elsewhere ( Bittner 1965 ) , we seem to have been misled by an essentialist definitional procedure which concentrates on the differences between phenomena and neglects those other matters which they have in common . |
| 28 | They seemed to have been lived by a different person . |
| 29 | The striking head is difficult to parallel stylistically , and the teeth seem to have been cut with an abrasive wheel which would not have been available in the Americas before the Spanish conquest . |
| 30 | Of the many Deeds performed by Hercules only one appears to have been recorded on a British beaker . |