Example sentences of "[vb past] have be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All employees identified by linkage to industrial records also reported that they had worked in the nuclear industry and no additional parents reported having been an employee . |
| 2 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 3 | Nearly one in three credit buyers said that the type of credit they used had been a standing arrangement , and so something they used virtually automatically . |
| 4 | The weapon used had been an imitation one . |
| 5 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 6 | July nineteen eighty eight escape from prison at with one other a Mr believed to have been a white Mercedes lorry near the prison . |
| 7 | My mother-in-law 's death , seemed to have been a long , lingering and painful end , bravely borne . |
| 8 | There seemed to have been a real shift from the closed systems of resource allocation that tended to exist before devolution , systems where a person , usually the head , made all the decision about capitation . |
| 9 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 10 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 11 | It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis . |
| 12 | She seemed to have been a reasonable kind of mother to Jenny ; at least she had n't stimulated any of the strong resentments which seemed to lie uneasily dormant in most daughters , especially those very fond of their fathers . |
| 13 | He and the Reverend McQueen set out after breakfast to find the ruins of what McQueen believed had been an ancient pagan temple to the goddess Anaitis . |
| 14 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 15 | He also falsified his qualifications , including a Master of Business Administration diploma from the Madison Business School in the United States , and claimed to have been a Laker Airways manager and an executive with the failed Polly Peck international conglomerate . |
| 16 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 17 | On Aug. 3 police in south-west France arrested Stanislao Villanueva Herrera ( also known as Txapu ) whom the authorities claimed had been a leading figure in ETA since the arrests of other leaders in March [ see p. 38823-24 ] . |
| 18 | The accused , who included some army officers , had faced charges in connection with what the authorities claimed had been a plot to assassinate President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali by shooting down his plane , as part of an armed uprising to replace the present government with an Islamic one . |
| 19 | The UFF killed a Catholic on Jan. 9 , and on Jan. 15 it killed a Protestant builder who it claimed had been an informer for the security forces . |
| 20 | The hesitation before he replied had been a fraction too long . |
| 21 | She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess . |
| 22 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |
| 23 | Heather and I had the large front room on the right of the entrance , which we understood had been a music room , and where Byron , in a temper had thrown an ink bottle at a maid . |
| 24 | He admitted to have been a virgin at twenty-two . |
| 25 | But what she did have was an eye and an ear and a view about promotion right from the beginning . |
| 26 | The small obstacle which he had feared appeared to have been a groundless worry . |
| 27 | Except that there appeared to have been a miscalculation — one which Rostov himself did not yet understand — so that the pod was now heading unscathed for the outer atmosphere of Tarvaras . |
| 28 | There appeared to have been a possibility that , contrary to correct practice , financial information had passed between the two men . |
| 29 | In the latest in a series of incidents , an animal grazing on Mithian Downs , near St Agnes , Cornwall , was wounded on its forehead by what appeared to have been a sharp instrument . |
| 30 | Yesterday 's sudden departure followed what appeared to have been an almost total cave-in by East Germany , anxious to have the matter out of the way by the country 's fortieth anniversary on Saturday . |