Example sentences of "[vb past] have been 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 | July nineteen eighty eight escape from prison at with one other a Mr believed to have been a white Mercedes lorry near the prison . |
| 6 | My mother-in-law 's death , seemed to have been a long , lingering and painful end , bravely borne . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It seemed to have been a place of school and tennis , of clubs and tennis . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The hesitation before he replied had been a fraction too long . |
| 20 | She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He admitted to have been a virgin at twenty-two . |
| 24 | The small obstacle which he had feared appeared to have been a groundless worry . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There appeared to have been a possibility that , contrary to correct practice , financial information had passed between the two men . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 30 | Second , there appeared to have been an evening-out of change , with the mixed/pastoral farming areas recording similar rates of change to the arable areas , partly because arable farming had markedly expanded into these areas during the period from 1972 to 1983 . |