Example sentences of "[to-vb] been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to I ought to 've been the bloody brainiest in country me |
| 2 | ‘ Hendrique was reputed to have been the best student ever to graduate from Balashikha . |
| 3 | Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action . |
| 4 | Many newspapers compile lists of what they consider to have been the best novels of the previous year — a useful guide to what readers might try to get hold of . |
| 5 | He is said to have been the joint author , with Donaldson , of the Commissioner 's design for the Crystal Palace in 1850 . |
| 6 | The tapered-sided gable-lidded coffin was being challenged by the new single-break flat-lidded shell , though it appears only to have been the middle classes who focused attention on style . |
| 7 | The men behind this ordinance seem to have been the greater merchants , who hoped to control the trade more strictly in their own interests , but the new system was never wholly enforced . |
| 8 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
| 9 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
| 10 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 11 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |
| 12 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 13 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 14 | The US scientist Ronald Bracewell seems to have been the first to have suggested that sending or listening for radio signals is a haphazard business and almost certainly doomed to failure , because the task of covering the millions of ‘ likely ’ stars is well-nigh impossible . |
| 15 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 16 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 17 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 18 | The action was to have been the first brought under the Czech Republic 's software piracy laws . |
| 19 | A question which still greatly puzzles utilitarian thinkers , on which Sidgwick seems to have been the first to touch , is whether the utilitarian goal is the maximisation of total or of average welfare . |
| 20 | The contract was to have been the first to be awarded under the new no frills fast track process — but some observers now expect the tender to be scrapped altogether and replaced with a Desktop V tender . |
| 21 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 22 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 23 | The name most associated with long-wave theories is Kondratiev , a Soviet economist , who is widely believed to have been the first to develop the theory . |
| 24 | The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman . |
| 25 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 26 | This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income . |
| 27 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 28 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 29 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 30 | He observed the Celts with care and seems to have been the first to find them witty : " pleraque Gallia duas res industriosissime persequitur , rem militarem et argute loqui " ( fr. 34 Peter ) . |